This is an excerpt of a post that I wrote for my college blog at CBS MoneyWatch last week after attending the biggest annual college fair in San Diego. You can read the entire post here: What’s Wrong With America’s Dream Colleges When I looked at The Princeton Review’s newly released lists of America’s most […]
The Hazards of Dreaming About Colleges
on March 28, 2011 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, California universities, Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities
Is Any College Really Worth $50,000 a Year?
on March 8, 2011 in College rankings, Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Research, Universities
Affluent families, who can afford to send their children anywhere to college, are becoming more discriminating. Some are questioning whether a private college that costs $50,000 or more is really worth the price. That’s one of the take-home messages of a podcast that I listened to recently on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website. The […]
My New College Blog Look is Coming Soon
on February 24, 2011 in Financial aid, Liberal Arts Colleges, Money
I hadn’t planned on videotaping a college blog post on Wednesday, but I had to get my picture taken at a professional photo studio this afternoon and since that required getting my hair done, putting on makeup and wearing a crisp white blouse, I thought why not. I went to all to all this trouble […]
College Navigator: Checking a College’s Generosity
on February 17, 2011 in Evaluating Schools, Financial aid, Liberal Arts Colleges, Money, Research, Universities
There are many websites that you can research the financial aid practices of individual schools. Today I’m going to focus on an especially helpful site — the federal College Navigator. The College Navigator is not flashy, but it contains incredible tools that tap into the US Department of Education’s vast college database. The College Navigator […]
Public Universities With the Best Grad Rates
on February 2, 2011 in California universities, Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities
Yesterday I wrote a post that explored what types of schools enjoy the best graduation rates. If you missed it, here it is: Who Graduates In 4 Years? Today I’m sharing the 25 public universities where students enjoy the best chances of earning a diploma in four years. I pulled these figures off the federal […]
Who Graduates in 4 Years?
on January 31, 2011 in Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities
Time is money and that is especially true when it comes to college. College students usually don’t graduate in four years and that comes as a shock to most parents. It should be no surprise that students at private non-profit schools graduate sooner than students at state universities, but there is variation within those two […]
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