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 for […]

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 applicant […]

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 […]