Last week, Gawker ran an arti­cle cit­ing the top ten tra­di­tional uni­ver­si­ties that have the high­est stu­dent debt. The data was pulled by a recent study by the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, which actu­ally revealed that the top three insti­tu­tions with high­est stu­dent debt are actu­ally for-profit schools, which are often crit­i­cized for not lead­ing to lucrative-enough […]

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Jeff Bren­zel recently posted on The Huff­in­g­ton Post his advice for stu­dents when they have been accepted to col­lege. I thought that this was a great idea since even though it’s extremely impor­tant to dis­cuss deal­ing with dis­ap­point­ment and road­blocks, it’s just as impor­tant to dis­cuss what to do with those accep­tance letters.

Ulti­mately, I was very happy with my final choice—though hon­estly, I know that I would have been happy with many of the schools to which I applied. After all of the stress of apply­ing to schools, we some­times for­get that it can also be very dif­fi­cult to hold the decision-making power. Here are some point­ers that I learned from my own experience.

If you're fac­ing the dreaded-yet-necessary beme­hoth of an appli­ca­tion known as FAFSA (the Free Appli­ca­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid), you prob­a­bly have some ques­tions. For many peo­ple, fil­ing for taxes is a sim­pler process than ensur­ing that the FAFSA is com­pleted accu­rately and thor­oughly. The cum­ber­some umpteen-long FAFSA appli­ca­tion process has been an easy target […]

Mil­lions of high school seniors await the wave of col­lege accep­tance and denial let­ters this spring. For most, the often gru­el­ing appli­ca­tion process is over, allow­ing for a healthy case of seniori­tis to set in. Once those let­ters arrive, how­ever, a whole new sea­son of plan­ning and decision-making begins. Pay­ing for col­lege. Many an eager […]

Once upon time, Pell Grants, fed­eral loans from the gov­ern­ment, were a great asset to help stu­dents pay for their col­lege edu­ca­tion. How­ever, Kevin Carey, a pol­icy direc­tor at Edu­ca­tion Sec­tor, a D.C.-based think tank argues that this is no longer the case. In a recent arti­cle, he claims Pell Grants are not as beneficial […]

The Web is replete with infor­ma­tion on how to finance a col­lege edu­ca­tion, but it doesn't change the fact that it's expen­sive and–who are we kidding?–complicated. If you browse pre­vi­ous BG arti­cles and keep an eye out for future ones, you're bound to find some sea­soned insights maneu­ver­ing this aspect of the game. But for […]

Trans­fer­ring schools can be a chal­leng­ing task. Most likely, you are not feel­ing con­tent with your orig­i­nal selec­tion. Many rea­sons include the cost, loca­tion, ath­let­ics, and the desired cur­ricu­lum. No mat­ter why you have made the choice to trans­fer, it is usu­ally a quick deci­sion. You become dis­con­tent and you want a change. Now, while […]