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 […]
Archive | Universities RSS feed for this section
The Real Cost of Attending an Expensive East Coast University
Yesterday I wrote about college coop programs that link students up with jobs while they are still students. Here is the post: Do You Need a Coop Program To Get a Job? What I am far more interested in sharing is what these and other private universities, many of which are located on the East […]
Is Any College Really Worth $50,000 a Year?
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 […]
Flagship Universities Going Rogue
With support from their state governments dwindling, some state flagship universities are seeking greater autonomy. Among the schools clamoring for more freedom are the University of Oregon, Louisiana State and University of Wisconsin, where my mother earned her master’s degree decades ago. I read a story in The New York Times yesterday about these universities […]
College Navigator: Checking a College’s Generosity
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 […]
Going to Extremes To Cut College Costs
Many teenagers that I meet would love to attend a public university outside their state – or at least they think they would. Out here in California, teenagers seem to be particularly interested in other flagships in the West – University of Colorado, University of Washington and University of Oregon. Of course, plenty of teenagers […]
Buy Lynn’s Workbook
If you’re a parent, you are probably worried about college costs. College tuition has been increasing faster than inflation for years. The most expensive colleges used to be $30,000, then $40,000 and now dozens of schools have shot past the $50,000 mark.
Who can afford to pay that kind of money? Find the answers you need to slash the cost of college by reading Lynn’s Book. Learn More…
Connect Online
