Adam recently gave a teleseminar discussing the college planning process. You can listen to it here:
Financial aid letters are confusing. There is no standard format for financial aid award letters, making them difficult to interpret and to compare and contrast. The reasons are not clear as to why they are so confusing. The cynical answer is that many schools do not want you to know their offer is not good [...]
If you have kids in high school or in college you know all too well about the high cost of a college education. Adam Metsch talks with Scott Coen about college costs and how it helps to start the process early. Watch the video here: http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/3319266
College Advisor of New England from WGBY on Vimeo.
VIP Applications: What are they? This fall, a number of high school seniors will receive a personalized e-mail or letter congratulating them for qualifying for a special “V.I.P. Application.” V.I.P. Applications are applications sent from colleges to select students encouraging them to attend the school. The VIP applications offer a fast-track, simplified application process [...]
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Can MTV, dangling a prize of a $100,000 development budget, coax students to improve the process of seeking and securing financial aid?
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day is not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large [...]
Among the worries of Michael Campbell, a high school senior in Denver, is that colleges will see only “transcript-test-scores-class-rank-me,” and not “human me.”
For high school students and their families, the college selection process involves one of the biggest “purchases” they’ll ever make. With the costs of four-year colleges reaching as high as $200,000, choosing a college ranks right up there with buying a home. In our current economic crisis, the process can create even more stress for [...]