You applied early decision and you expect to hear back from your college in mid-December, after which you’re expected to accept pretty quickly. And the FAFSA doesn’t come out until Dec. 1. How do you know if you should accept when the college won’t be able to calculate your financial aid award? Your financial aid award has two pieces: Most…

There are loads of great reasons to take advanced classes in high school: additional rigor, intellectual challenge, preparing for college, diving deeper into a topic. One of the most common reasons students take these classes, though, is to get college credit while in high school. If college credit is one of your goals, then you need to know what colleges…

No matter how simplified the FAFSA gets, elements of it are still confusing. The CSS Profile, on the other hand, keeps getting more complex, so it just gets more and more confusing. Here are a few tips to make filing go more smoothly– and some pitfalls to avoid. Apologies for the laundry list format! Set up your IDs ahead of…

The college rankings are here! Right in time for students to apply to the best colleges! But wait, which college is best? US News & World Report and Forbes say Princeton is best university but the Wall Street Journal and Niche say MIT. Meanwhile the Princeton Review lists Featured colleges first so you’d think Christopher Newport University is best., and the Associated Press is all in on the…