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Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige.   |
Salon.com
December 15, 2000
Maura Kelly |
Stop the madness Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout... |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College at a Discount Next year, a Minnesota-based university will cut its tuition by 33 percent for all its students. Others will likely follow. |
BusinessWeek
April 16, 2007
Christoph Guttentag |
The College Crunch: Why Getting In Has Gotten So Tough For many American families, March Madness refers not to a basketball tournament but to the ever-increasing anxiety in the weeks before colleges mail their acceptance letters. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Handle Overblown College Fears It's only natural that your clients dread the approach of this milestone, but as they prepare for it, you can help minimize their stress level. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Sophia Asare |
Putting College Within Reach for Many Nonprofit programs provide intensive admissions-prep services for promising kids from low-income backgrounds. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Real Costs of College A net price calculator allows clients to look beyond sticker prices to focus on the only price that matters to a mom and dad: the price they'll pay for their child to attend college. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
School's (Not) Out Parents often assume that their children are going to finish their degrees in four years. Most of the time, it doesn't happen. |
Financial Advisor
January 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
Registered Rep.
October 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Important Change in Financial Aid What President Obama did by signing an executive order in September to make two seemingly simple changes to the FAFSA process can potentially reap huge benefits to your families with college applicants. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Robert Brokamp |
What Will College Really Cost? You've heard the scary statistics, but the final price tag may not be so bad. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2014
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2010
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Financial Aid Fiascos Feeling financially unprepared for college is a big source of stress for many people. Don't get caught flat-footed when planning for college costs. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Untapped Market in College Financial Planning There is one field where you won't get jostled: The niche for good late-stage college planning. It is just about deserted. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
John Churchill |
College Costs: Up, Up and Away Recently released survey of college costs found that tuition and fees at 4-year public universities rose 6.6 percent per year in 2007. |
Registered Rep.
February 28, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Ten Facts About College Freshmen College news that tell us what college freshman think and that Antioch College offers free tuition. For applicants, the FAFSA will be easier to complete this year. |
Registered Rep.
November 19, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Value Investing for College Several schools recently dubbed the best value by Kiplinger's also charge the highest net prices in the nation. Shame. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Deborah Fox |
Coming Up Short The current economic environment is putting considerable pressure on families. But if parents and their financial advisors take a proactive approach to college planning, parents and students can avoid reliance on credit markets. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
College Panic Many of your clients with teenage children may be feeling the college panic about now. They are looking at diminished net worths and an uncertain job market and economy |
CIO
December 15, 2003
Matt Villano |
Portals to the Future Online college applications are not new. What has changed: Students (and their parents) are now much more comfortable submitting their qualifications online, with almost 60 percent of students applying without paper of any kind. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Scholarships: Not Just For The Needy Why schools are giving more scholarship money to affluent kids. |
BusinessWeek
June 19, 2006
Anne Tergesen |
What Price College Admission? Parents are spending tens of thousands on advisers to shape their kids' game plans. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2011
Liz O'Shaughnessy |
Negotiating through the Maze of College Costs One of the biggest mistakes that families with college-bound teenagers make is looking in the wrong places for college cash. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000 |
Report Shows Increase in Online College Applications |
Registered Rep.
August 20, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
When Dream Schools Become a Nightmare Many parents will go to great lengths to send to their children to their dream schools, but it's not always the best financial decision. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Embark Embark has just launched a new version of its Web site, embark.com, to help college-bound students through the college search and application process... |
Entrepreneur
April 2010
Rosalind Resnick |
Paying for the Old College Try Advice for small-business owners on how to finance your kids' college educations. |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Rankings Are Not Accurate People don't appreciate that U.S. News doesn't even attempt to measure the type of learning going on at the nation's colleges and universities. |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2011
David Juliano |
Financial Aid Pie: Getting a Big Slice Although billions of dollars in financial aid and scholarships are available, applying and qualifying remains a daunting task. Financial advisors can assist clients through it. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Save for State U., Too If you're not saving for college because you expect your child will attend an affordable, public school, you might want to rethink your plans a little bit. Public college doesn't necessarily mean a debt-free education. |
Teacher Magazine
August 2000
Robert C. Johnston |
Green Card Blues Though colleges are scrambling to recruit minorities, talented immigrant students are being turned away. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
7 Ways to Cut the Cost of College Why pay hundreds or thousands when you could be saving that money instead? |
Reason
February 2008
Shikha Dalmia |
Legacies of Injustice Alumni preferences threaten educational equity and no one seems to care. |
Salon.com
May 20, 2002
Janelle Brown |
Smoke a joint and your future is McDonald's A federal law passed in a burst of drug war fervor denies financial aid to the country's neediest students... |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants. |
CRM
September 2013
Leonard Klie |
Schools Need to Rethink Their CRM Approaches Many colleges and universities are only using CRM for marketing, ignoring vital service and sales components. |
CRM
May 2011
Leonard Klie |
Higher Education Increases Marketing Schools shift focus to generate more inquiries in-house and boost technology investments. |
Registered Rep.
November 17, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What Public Universities Cost at the State Level Public universities, where most students attend, charge significantly different prices. And the policies that dictate who receives financial aid and merit scholarships also vary dramatically. |
ifeminists
November 11, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Colleges Charge Big for Worthless Curricula Before they send their children onto a college campus in North America, parents should read two new reports. What passes for education at many universities is not merely an intellectual embarrassment; it is also tremendously expensive. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Get Ready, Get Set for Financial Aid: Part 2 A peek into how schools determine your financial aid package. |
Registered Rep.
October 3, 2011
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What College Costs Thanks to a new federally mandated cost calculator, parents can learn far in advance what a particular college will cost them, which should lead to better informed decisions. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Savings Don't Hurt Chances For Financial Aid Clients will be in a far better position and enjoy more college options if they've saved for their child's college education. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2006
Rich Smith |
Don't Flunk Your Retirement Will putting your kid through college put you in the poorhouse? Spend a little time poring over the resumes of America's most powerful CEOs, and you'll be struck by how very few of them graduated from elite schools. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Get Ready, Get Set for Financial Aid: Part 1 A students' guide on getting help with school expenses. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2000 |
Xap into College Admissions Xap, a Web-based information management system for college-bound students, is now available online from the Xap.com Web site. Xap.com's model is based on the company's formation of close working relationships with several colleges and universities... |
