When financial aid award letters come in from colleges, you may find that each college has its own way of presenting financial awards. It can be like comparing apples to oranges. In this free webinar, Karen Hott of Two Bridges College Consulting interviews Claire Law, a Certified Educational Planner and author of “How to Control Your College Costs.” Claire and

Virtual college fairs cropped in the past year as a way for colleges to reach prospective students whose movements were curtailed by covid. Before the pandemic started forcing shutdowns—a year ago—hundreds of admission representatives, each fall and spring, crowded into gyms and other venues, setting up their tables with banners, brochures, stickers, and pens. This year, the gyms are off

Virtual college fairs cropped in the past year as a way for colleges to reach prospective students whose movements were curtailed by covid. Before the pandemic started forcing shutdowns—a year ago—hundreds of admission representatives, each fall and spring, crowded into gyms and other venues, setting up their tables with banners, brochures, stickers, and pens. This year, the gyms are off

The Independent Educational Consultants Association just issued these “We Believe” statements. Members of the IECA do not use the underhanded methods shown by the unethical characters in the Varsity Blues scandal. With a new docudrama on the Varsity Blues Scandal coming out this month on Netflix, as well as potential legislation impacting independent educational consultants (IECs) in several states, the

Four well-established admissions directors discussed Covid-19’s impact on the class of 2022, this year’s high school juniors. Applerouth’s Ginger Fay moderated a webinar February 7 with George Washington University’s Carol Lee Conchar, Georgia Tech’s Rick Clark, University of Wisconsin’s André Phillips, and Washington & Lee’s Leonard Satterwhite as they addressed the test-optional landscape, holistic admissions, essays, and how to connect

Claire Law is a Certified Educational Planner and author of “How to Control Your College Costs,” to be released this spring. In this video, Karen A. Hott of Two Bridges College Consulting interviews Claire with real questions from actual parents whose kids will be attending college in fall of 2021. The interview covers FAFSA and CSS Profile; Pell Grants and

Why go to school in the Upper Midwest? What could I tell students from the Southeast about Minnesota, as most of us in Maryland and south think of Minnesota as a land encased in ice? The Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul have activities all year long, with festivities to celebrate what winter brings. Macalester is in St. Paul; St. Olaf and

You can read about colleges in the Princeton Review or the Fiske Guide, you can explore college websites, you can search Niche and Reddit. But now, thanks to Aly Beaumont at Admissions Village in Wilton, Connecticut, you can find students who are attending the colleges you are considering–and connect with them to ask them your questions about life at their