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College List BuildingUC Berkeley Common Data Set
Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from UC Berkeley’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from UC Berkeley Common Data Set 2025-2026. Berkeley Common Data…
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Uncategorized2018 Merit Scholarship and Financial Aid Survey
ATTENTION FAMILIES OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS! It’s time to pay it forward….please share what offers your students received for merit scholarships and/or financial aid, anonymously. This information will greatly help families behind you, just starting the college admissions process for the 2018-2019 college admissions session. Now that most families have all the merit and need…
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ApplyRejected By a Safety School? Here Are Some Possible Reasons Why
Throughout the months of March and April, students across the county are repeatedly clicking “refresh” on college admissions websites, anxiously awaiting the outcome of three and a half years of hard work in high school. While most will be preoccupied with whether or not they’ll get into their dream school, many will be shocked to…
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FinanceHome Equity and College Financial Aid: What’s the Impact?
You’ve worked diligently for years to be responsible with your bills and make payments on your mortgage. As a result, you’ve probably built up some equity in your home. If you’re especially fortunate, the real estate market in your area may have also added to your home’s value. Now that you have equity in your…
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Student & Parent LoansLender Profile: Citizens Bank Student Loans
Citizens Bank can be a great option for both students and parents looking for private education loans. Parents can get a loan to help their student pay for school, or students can apply for a private loan themselves. Students generally require a cosigner, but Citizens Bank does offer cosigner releases after a specific number of…
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College Financial Aid Costs and StatsLender Profile: Discover Student Loans
If you think of Discover as a credit card company and never considered them as a lender, you’re not alone. They are certainly best known for their credit products, but they have private loans available for students as well. Find out more about Discover student loans below! Discover Student Loan Summary Visit Discover at Credible …
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Financial aidHow to Handle it When Your Financial Aid Leaves a Funding Gap
If you’ve been researching college funding for very long, you’ve probably heard that sometimes your student’s financial aid does not match the amount you actually need to pay for them to go to college. The Expected Family Contribution (EFC) is sometimes part of the problem – it can be much higher than your family expects!…
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SurviveBe Open to Your 2nd and 3rd Choice Colleges
My daughter has played soccer since she was three and loves it, but she has a rare medical condition that sometimes gets in the way of participating in athletics. Despite her medical issues, she continued to play soccer, basketball, and run track through middle school. When she got to high school, the coaches really wanted…
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Standardized TestingPreparing for the ACT, SAT Math Sections: Advice From an Expert
There are lots of ways to prepare for the ACT and SAT: private tutoring, classes, online videos, and books, but if you don’t have a good understanding of the test basics BEFORE you enter that testing site, it may not matter what you know. You need to build a good strategy. We recently spoke with…
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College Financial PlanningHow to Pay for College – Learn From Other Parents’ Mistakes
The college admissions process (and the high school years leading up to it) are arduous and stressful, but we mustn’t forget to appreciate how exciting a time this can be as well. Most parents will feel a sense of relief by May 1, the official Decision Day, when their child makes the final determination about…
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ApplyGetting Ready For D Day: May 1, Deposit Day
D Day, May 1, officially known in college admissions circles as “National College Decision Day,” is also affectionately called by others as “Deposit Day.” In reality, it is both. It is the date when at most colleges, admitted students must give notification that they will be attending in order to save their spots. And in…
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FinanceFreaking Out Over the Lack of Financial Aid?
I’ve been reading a lot of Facebook posts about the financial aid letter freakout. That was me three years ago — except we knew our EFC (now called SAI) and what the colleges would likely award because we’d run all the numbers so there weren’t any real surprises. It was still hard, and I lost…
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FinanceHow Your Credit Score Affects Student Loans
Learning about credit scores and loans is not just for families with students facing a tuition bill in the near future. Knowing this information in advance, will give you time to make improvements to your financial situation if it’s needed. We’ve all read the headlines… increases in tuition far outpace inflation, tuition rates grow faster…
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FinanceHow to Use a Student Loan Calculator to Choose Your Best Loan Offer
Do you have many student loan offers but don’t know how to choose the best one? Are federal loans always a better choice than private student loans? Are you struggling to balance monthly payments and the loan term? Don’t worry; we have the perfect tool for you! To help parents and students make informed decisions…
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College Financial Aid Costs and StatsHow Generous Are D3 Colleges With Financial Aid and Merit Scholarships?
Student-athletes have to navigate an additional layer in the college admissions process, as they not only try to find schools that fit academically, socially, and financially, but also athletically. Many student-athletes choose to attend schools that are part of the NCAA Division 3 level in an effort to continue with their sport but also have…
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ParentingWhat To Say When Your Child Doesn’t Make The Cut
“Sorry, you were not selected…” Those words can be devastating, no matter how old you are. Children not selected for a sports team, a senior rejected from a college, a college student rejected from a sorority or fraternity or an adult not selected for a job or promotion. How do you help your child handle…
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College Financial PlanningNo College Savings? You’re Not Alone
Discussing our finances has never been a fun conversation in our house. I guess unless you have an overabundance of income, and you are discussing trips and second home purchases, it never is. So, like many others like us, we just avoided the conversations. And the years moved on… Well, this past summer we took…
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ApplyWhat Is the Academic Common Market?
Is your student planning to study in a specialized field, but you’re concerned about the cost? In some cases, in-state schools don’t offer the specialty your child is interested in. Out-of-state tuition can be more than twice as much as in-state, which may cause your student to rethink their major. The good news is that…
