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Everyone Should Submit a FAFSA Last week, I chatted on the phone with a business owner in Carmel, Indiana who makes close to 7 figures.  He wanted to know how to qualify for tuition discounts at the colleges his twins were applying to.  Betcha that seems crazy to you, right? It shouldn’t! If you felt […]

Do you ever wonder why some kids get admitted into their dream school, and other students with similar grades and similar test scores don’t? There are several factors that are important to getting into college: GPA, SAT or ACT score, rigor of your high school curriculum, letters of recommendation and involvement. These are all well […]

Asian-American applicant Not Admitted to Harvard By now you have probably heard about the Harvard Admissions Lawsuit brought by an Asian-American applicant who did not get admitted. The gist of the case is that while this student (and other Asian-American students) may have perfect academic credentials, their admission rate is lower than less academically qualified students. The […]

Don’t ask your friends how to get Financial Aid I hear some crazy questions about getting money for college. You may be the parent that asks all of your friends these questions and then gets multiple, conflicting answers that leave you confused. I thought this would be a great chance to set the record straight. […]

I’m working with a student that wants to go to a highly selective, “Ivy-like” college. He’s been promising to complete his first draft for a couple of weeks, but at our last meeting he had still not completed it. He is struggling to write it, because he thinks that he needs an incredible story of […]

The cost of College has risen more than 5x the rate of inflation in the United States. In August of 2014, the US Inflation Rate was 1.99%. The inflation of the Cost of College from 2008 – 2013 was 10.5% according to the US Department of Education. You may be asking, “How is it that […]

If you think it is hard to choose between Chicken Wings or the Filet Mignon Sandwich at Buffa Louie’s (a local hot spot in Bloomington, IN), you should try steering your way through the complexity of deadlines to apply for college. Every day, the students ask me “should I take the SAT or ACT?” Well, the […]

The cost of college is on the rise, and admission is getting harder due to more competition than ever. With the increasing cost of college, students are now asking the question “Is a college degree really worth tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt?” I was coaching a young man on colleges that he should […]