I believe a successful college search needs preparation plus opportunity. One of my favorite sayings has always been Luck = Preparation + Opportunity. What this means to me is that there really is no such thing as “luck”. You end Read more…
The Merit Scholarship Deep Dive 5-Day Challenge starts Wednesday, August 21. This will be a great opportunity for you to prepare to help your student find great merit scholarships to make college more affordable. In the 5-Day Challenge, I will Read more…
Finding the right college match is essentially a process of evaluating college “fit”. I believe there are 3 different kinds of college fit and I will discuss each in detail. Financial Fit Financial Fit deals with how well the college Read more…
This is a guest post from Daniel Bishop, founder and Comprehensive Financial Planner from Black Swan Advisors. See his full bio at the bottom of the post. There are so many important tactics for reducing the cost of college. And Read more…
High SAT scores can be very advantageous in your student’s college search process. They can open up a whole realm of possibility when it comes to college admission and merit scholarships. We will discuss both here. High SAT Scores & Read more…
Senioritis – A decline in motivation or academic performance that supposedly afflicts some seniors in high school, especially in their last term. (Dictionary.com) We’ve all heard about senioritis, or maybe even had kids who have succumbed to it. But can it impact college acceptance? The short answer is, “Yes”. Colleges do look at a Read more…
Let’s talk about how to create a better college list. The traditional method would be to use a college search spreadsheet template like the one I offer on my Resources page, start listing “known” colleges and then add to the Read more…
Here are more debt-free college strategies. In my last two posts, Debt-Free College Strategies – These Worked for Us and Debt-Free College Strategies #2 – These Also Worked for Us, I covered the debt-free college strategies we used with our Read more…
There are so many debt-free college strategies. Last week I wrote a HUGE post about 10 that worked for my family with the college choices for my three girls – Debt-Free College Strategies – These Worked for Us. As I Read more…
There are many debt-free college strategies. This week, I’ve been watching my friend Jocelyn Paonita Pearson, of The Scholarship System, in her free Debt-Free Degree Workshops. She and I are very much on the same wavelength about how to go Read more…