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Take First Step to Apply for College Financial Aid
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2011 Comment (3)If your child will be heading to college next fall, now is the time to prepare for applying for financial aid.
Your first step is to know what type of financial aid applications you will have to complete.
Students won't be eligible for financial aid unless they complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA. Filling out the FAFSA is a must for anyone who hopes to receive financial help from federal or state programs, as well as need-based aid from colleges themselves.
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Good Luck Finding a Net Price Calculator
Tweet Share on Facebook November 15, 2011 Comment (1)Can families easily find the new net price calculators that colleges and universities are now required to post on their websites?
I suspected that the answer was no, but I wanted to see for myself.
For those of you who aren't familiar with college net price calculators, which have been mandated by the federal government, here are two recent posts that will bring you up to speed:
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Some Universities Could Be Hurt By Net Price Calculators
Tweet Share on Facebook November 1, 2011 Comment (1)It's been a long time coming, but the Congressional mandate that colleges and universities make their pricing transparent finally arrived. All schools had to install their net price calculators on their websites by October 29.
This is the second part of my examination of net price calculators; here's the first part on how the calculators may be too simple to use.
I decided to write another post on net price calculators after talking with Jim Day, a principal at Hardwick Day, a higher-ed consulting firm, which has created net price calculators for such schools as Carleton College and California Institute of Technology. Developing net price calculators is a smaller part of its business, which is advising private colleges on enrollment issues.
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