As you’re filling out your FAFSA, you’ll eventually come to the part where you have to list the colleges that you plan to attend to, or which ones you want to attend to. Little did you know that your listing is shared, meaning that colleges can see how you rank them among other colleges. So […]
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And Yet, College Costs Still Continue to Rise
Today, I present to you news that every media outlet is talking about: college tuition rates are still rising…but not quite as much. This comes from the College Board’s annual report on college prices, spreading optimism to everyone that that you won’t have to pay that much more in comparison to last year’s increase. College prices […]
-Read more!College Reality Check: The College Scorecard Alternative
Comparing colleges and assessing how much you expect to make out of your career is a lot of work, so it helps to have a tool to work off of when doing your research. In the past, I’ve posted a list of websites that can help you in that search, including the College Scorecard, which […]
-Read more!The Controversy Over Standardized Testing
Standardized test have become a staple of American education. As a public schooler, you go into class and do class work day by day, following the curriculum that the teacher must follow to the end of the school year to gear you up for a test. As a homeschooler, your parents may have even had […]
-Read more!Why Do Textbooks Cost So Much?
Tuition isn’t the only thing you have to worry about when it comes to college expenses. On average, students spend about $900 a year on textbooks, and that was an estimate made nearly 10 years ago. In the past 15 years, costs for college textbooks have increased by 142%, ballooning past the 44% increase of […]
-Read more!What College Students Should Know About Obamacare
If you’ve been paying any attention (for many, probably not) the past few years, you should already know that the government passed a health care plan in 2010 known as the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. In fact, disputes over the funding of Obamacare is one of the main reasons for the government shutdown that […]
-Read more!How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse While in College
Everyone should already know what to do in the event that the dead ever began to walk again: keep up your cardio, always shoot for the head, and if anyone ever gets bitten, be prepared to have to put them down. But in college, your resources will be limited. It’s very unlikely colleges will allow […]
-Read more!What You Probably Didn’t Know About Your College’s Health Center
If you’ve ever lived on campus and caught the flu, you may be familiar with the health center. I’d imagine it being like walking into your physician’s office and having to sit down in the waiting area for half an hour surrounded by a bunch of sick college students- as compared to sitting in a […]
-Read more!The Class of 2013 Didn’t Quite Meet Up to Standards (Either)
Last year, the College Board reported a drop in SAT scores from the Class of 2012 compared to the year before, showing that only 43% of high school graduates were ready for college. For the Class of 2013, scores remained virtually unchanged. This is making the College Board a little peeved and are now marking the […]
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