Every year, the National Association for College Admission Counseling releases a list of colleges that are still accepting applications for the fall semester. Usually this list is released on May 2, immediately after the May 1 acceptance day. This year, the list came out a little early and a new feature was added: schools that have extended their admissions deadline….
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Looking for more decision-making tools? Try College Scorecard, the Department of Education’s website designed to help students and families compare the cost and value of different colleges. College Scorecard provides institution-level and field-of-study-level data on everything from admissions rates to post-graduation salaries to status of student loan repayment. How might you use it? Suppose your student is debating between a…
May 1 is looming, so many families are facing some big decisions. I’m trying to centralize tools for the key parts of acceptance in a single post. Below are a set of links to the key financial issues involved. First, though, I want to talk about cash flow planning: how much can you spend out of pocket every year? Most…
I would imagine that for many graduating seniors, one of the trickiest aspects of deciding which college to attend is that students have few, if any, opportunities to set foot on campus to get a feel for the school before they need to decide. And even if you are off doing spring break tours, what you’re seeing is not exactly…
Common App data through March 1 shows that the number of college applicants has more or less held steady this year, but the number of applications submitted increased by 11%. That means students applied to more schools this year than in past years. Which brings up the topic of yield. Yield is the percent of admitted students who enroll at…