Whether — and to what degree — your parents’ assets, such as equity in their home, will affect your financial aid award is a complex question. The Washington Post recently posted a Q&A looking at one particular aspect of parental assets: Retirement funds. Specifically whether converting their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA could affect [...]
According to a 2009 study, 84% of college students have at least one credit card — but only 17% pay off their cards in full every month. By the time the average student graduates from college, he or she has racked up $4,000 in credit card debt — a troubling burden, especially in a stressed [...]
Are you thinking about enrolling in an online class? You’ll be in good company. According to a new report by the Sloan Consortium more than one in four students took at least one distance learning class in 2008. The study, called Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, found a 17 percent jump [...]
If you have been watching the news from Haiti for the last almost three weeks, you may have felt helpless. I know I have. Sending off our donation was a step in the right direction, but the needs are so great and my check was such a very small drop in that giant bucket. In [...]
A number of the country’s top public universities are giving millions in financial aid to students from relatively wealthy families, while those from truly needy backgrounds are not receiving enough assistance, says a new report. Examining the period from 2003 to 2007, the report, called “Opportunity Adrift”, discovered that schools give as much financial aid [...]
So, high school seniors. Are you getting worried about how you will pay for college? Wondering if it’s really worth the tens of thousands of dollars (hundreds of thousands?!?!) you are planning to invest? Well, then, you should definitely check out the USA Today’s 2010 Best College Value Report. The schools were chosen based on [...]
A few weeks ago, I spent the weekend cleaning out my basement. I came across a box of old (very old!) college textbooks and decided to finally look into selling these online. After more than a decade of non-use, I figured it was safe to say that I was never going to read these books [...]
