Sometimes winter days feel like you are living in a cold, cruel world – especially if you are a high school senior who has just gotten your financial aid award package from a favored college. You spent the summer working hard on your college application...
In our digital age, we seem to fixate on responding to online challenges – last year people were taking the ice bucket challenge to raise money for ALS. This year the “challenge” is a little more questionable with people wearing blindfolds as part of the...
Wow, it’s 2021 and it seems like another year has just flown by. If you’re a high school senior, I’m sure the last few months have been full of activities as you apply to college and look for financial aid to help cover the costs....
The beginning of another year brings a fresh slate of opportunities and challenges. For high school students thinking about going to college, or even most college students, money is usually one constant concern. As much as we like to focus on the academic benefits of...
Well, this is my last blog post for 2018. I hope you all had a great year, and have taken the steps necessary to find a good college and receive the financial aid necessary to help pay for it. What I hear time and again...
The college admission and financial aid application process can be a challenge indeed. Most high school seniors have managed to get through the maze of filing the FAFSA and may even be starting to hear from some of their chosen colleges. Procrastinating seniors, on the...
It is almost the end of the year and high school seniors should be well on their way to making some tough decisions about their college choices. If you applied early decision or early action, you may even have started receiving letters of acceptance from...
If your teenager needs financial aid to attend college in the fall of 2020, you might be proud of yourself for filing the FAFSA, and even completing a CSS Profile. If you are a parent who is divorced or separated, however, you might be surprised...
In one of my October blog posts I covered the topic of requesting an online tax transcript from the IRS. That is all well and good for certain taxpayers, you might think, but what about people who are not required to file tax returns for...
Families should be well along the way on the college selection and admission process at this point in the senior year of high school. Those who have applied early enough should start receiving acceptance letters by the end of the year. Along with the good...
