Category: Financial Aid & Costs
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The New Merit: Character, Context, and Contribution in Contemporary Admissions
I recently teamed up with my nephew to form an independent college counseling concern. He’s a former journalist, English tutor, and fiction writer. I spent forty plus years in college admissions. He’s convinced of the application as narrative. I’m the conservative influence focused on academic credentials. So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about scholastic…
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The FAFSA & the CSS Profile: What Colleges Really Mean by “Need”
“We filled out the FAFSA, but the college says we need to pay more than what we actually can.” That’s because what the federal government means by ‘need’ isn’t necessarily what you or the college mean. Financial aid is one of the least transparent aspects of higher education. Sticker prices can be highly inflated, forms…