Links and Articles

"Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen."
- President Lyndon B. Johnson, June 1, 1965 

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Experts Explain: College Net Price Calculators 10/27/2011
Tuition and fees are going up, but the actual cost of college may be a lot less
http://online.wsj.com/video/experts-explain-college-net-price-calculators/45E17C66-7885-4F70-B021-04F09BB659DE.html 

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For those with good grades, this is an interesting article... 
U.S. study shows that growth of non-need-based grants contributed to shift of college and state aid toward higher-income students. 
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/10/19/education_department_study_examines_growth_of_merit_based_financial_aid 

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This is a good article, but it doesn't mention that many of these expensive private colleges discount their tuition by tens of thousands of dollars for needy students. If my daughter can get a $250k college education and degree for less than the price of a state school, that's what we're going to do.

 If you’re the parent of a high-achieving high school student prepared to spend whatever it takes to send your kid to an Ivy League college, authors Claudia Dreifus and Andrew Hacker have some unlikely advice: Don’t do it. Dreifus, a New York…

http://shine.yahoo.com/back-to-school/10-reasons-to-skip-the-expensive-colleges-2518407.html 
 

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