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8 Weeks to Cut Your College Costs
If you’re like millions of other parents with teenagers, you are stressed about your child’s college choices and how you’re going to pay the tab. Beginning May 19, I will launch my next online course...
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Be My Guest: An Invitation
I am inviting you to attend my webinar next week that will explain four ways that you can cut your college costs. For your convenience, I am offering two webinar dates: May 12 (Tuesday), 5:30 p.m. PDT...
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4 Favorite Tools to Cut College Costs
I was amazed when I had roughly 950 people register to attend my two webinars this week. If you missed it, don’t worry, I am sharing a link to a recording of one of the webinars below. In the...
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A State University Arms Race
Many students who aren’t interested in attending a public university in their own state tend to look at state institutions elsewhere. Choosing public universities outside your border can sometimes be...
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Scholarships for Students With a 3.4 GPA
Today I’m rerunning a previous post that I’ve updated that I hope will reduce the stress level of many parents reading it. I initially wrote the post in reaction to the dilemma of a teenager with a...
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How to Contact College Coaches
Today I am sharing a guest post on athletic scholarships that Jon Fugler, the founder and CEO of Recruit-Me, wrote. Fugler has been helping parents and student-athletes navigate the recruiting road...
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10 Tips to Cut College Costs
Are you freaking out about the price of a bachelor’s degree? If so, you’ll want to attend one of my upcoming free webinars where I will share 10 easy ways to cut the cost of college. The two webinars...
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Don’t make this dangerous college mistake
Here is what typically happens during college admission season: Students apply to whatever colleges they want without having any clue about whether these schools will give them grants and/or...
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year’s to you! I hope you had a lovely holiday. My husband and I were fortunate to be able to spend this time with our daughter Caitlin and our son Ben over the break. The photo you see is...
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Is a Trophy School Worth the Price?
I’ll be launching my latest online course – The College Cost Lab – in June. If you’d like to be among the first to know when I have more details, just email me at Lynn@TheCollegeSolution.com. Lynn...
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Free Quick Training: Learn How to Cut Your College Costs
Are you worried about how you’re going to possibly pay for four years of college? If so, I’d urge you to attend my free online presentation – Five Winning Strategies to Finding Great Schools and...
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Five Winning College Strategies
NOTE: My online presentations that I discuss below are over, but you can watch the recording for the next few days. Here is the link to watch Five Winning College Strategies. Are you eager to discover...
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Realities of National Merit Scholarships
This is the time of year when parents of teenagers, who are excellent test takers, start thinking about National Merit Scholarships. Next month, high school juniors will be taking the PSAT, which is...
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Why You MUST Use Net Price Calculators!
Here is what typically happens during college admission season: Students apply to whatever colleges they want without having any clue about whether these schools will give them grants and/or...
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My New College Column at Cappex
If you like periodically checking out my college blog, I want to alert you to another place where I share my thoughts about college issues. I recently began a college column at Cappex, which is the...
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Should You Pay More Than $66,000 for Northeastern University?
This is the time of year when parents and teenagers stress about their college choices. Parents whose children have expensive collegiate tastes can struggle with the some variation of the following...
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Success Story! Saying No to a Dream College
Last month I heard from many parents agonizing about whether to let their teenagers attend their dream colleges. These dream colleges were inevitably highly selective to elite universities which cost...
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10 Things You Need to Know About College Net Price Calculators
Here is what typically happens during college admission season: Students apply to whatever colleges they want without having any clue about whether these schools will give them grants and/or...
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How to Appeal a Financial Aid Letter
How do you appeal a financial aid letter? Should you appeal a financial aid award? What kind of college awards can you appeal? I directed these financial aid questions to Mark Kantrowitz, a nationally...
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Elite Colleges, Entitled Teens and Guilted Parents
The college admission season is winding down at this time of year except for this part: Parents are stressing about how they’re going to pay for the college that their children want to attend. Spring...
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