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5 Things High School Seniors Should Be Doing Now
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (9)If you are a rising high school senior, you probably thought you had all summer to get prepared for the upcoming college admission frenzy. But guess what? You're running out of time.
To avoid the time crunch in the fall, here are five things you can do now:
1. Examine school prices: I think it's reckless to apply to a school if you don't have some sense of what kind of price you would have to pay. Sticker prices, however, are often meaningless. At private colleges and universities, for instance, 88 percent of students receive some type of price break.
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Don't Rely On College Sticker Prices
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2011 Comment (2)Everybody knows that college prices never stop rising.
What families often don't realize is that published college price tags are pretty much meaningless. Most students receive some type of price break, thanks to federal or state grants and/or discounts from the schools themselves.
