I need help on my grad school admissions!
Question: I’m thinking of applying to the MA program in either History or English at UC-Boulder, UW-Seattle (is there another UW?), UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Syracuse, and maybe even NYU or Columbia.  However, I have no clue what my grades are going to have to be to get me in [...]

Student Loans
Question: My antipathy toward student loans is based, in part, on the repeated experience of hearing from people who are at the point of desperation because they can no longer afford to make payments on their student loans, cannot afford a lawyer to help them figure out how to resolve their problem, cannot get [...]

Question: We’re looking to help finance our son’s last two years of college at a University here in WA state. On the one hand, we’ve considered a parent plus loan but want him to have some ownership for his loans and have other kids we need to help too. That leaves a student [...]

Question: Although I sense that the emphasis here is on top tier schools, mainly on the East Coast, I’m posting this in hope of some input.
Our son, 17, is a senior in a rural, Northern California high school. He’d like to attend a college that’s in the western US. He’s still torn between a computer [...]

Question: I’ll have two kids in college starting next fall and my ECU showing as both would be living at home is ~$8k (assuming they’d both be home for a family of six).
One kid is going away and I don’t know that I’d be able to claim him as a dependent on taxes any [...]

Question: That may be. I haven’t studied the term. I pulled out a dictionary >definition here, which may more or less confirm what you say. It goes like this:
Intelligence. 1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, >relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
2. manifestation [...]

Question: I live in Ukraine and going to apply into the Business School in US. I am looking for any information about scholarships and finansial aid programs.
If you have that information, please let me know.
Thanks for your attantion
Answer: each college will be able to give you most the information on financial aid that will be [...]

Question: So the kid wants a computer for college REALLY BADLY , but she doesn’t really need one at the college she’ll be attending because they have computer labs everywhere. If I should break down (she’s offering to pay half from her summer job) which is better? She wants an iMac because she says she [...]

Question: My 15 year old daughter will be a senior in High School this fall. Her dream school is Northwestern. Her second choice is Bradley in Peoria.
She recently scored a 32 on her ACT. She is #2 in her class and has maintained a 4.0 GPA. She has been the officer in several [...]

Question: I could really use some advise…I’m 25 and have just decided to go back to school. problem 1 is I cant afford it! problem 2 is I have no idea how to get in touch w/ the ‘right’ people to help me…I live in NY and would love some input! Thanks
Answer: Sometimes community colleges [...]