The College Application Checklist

October is College Application Month! 

(It's also National Book; Work and Family; Breast Cancer Awareness; CyberSecurity Awareness; Filibpino American History; LGBT History; Bullying Prevention; Physical Therapy; Pharmacist; Polish American Heritage; Art & Humanties; Domestic Violence; Spina Bifida Awareness; Child Health; Lung & Clean Air; Dental Hygene; Let's Talk; Down Syndrome Awareness; Pastor Appreciation; and ....Arab American Heritage Month)

Perhaps it's not surprising that College Application Month gets crowded out.  

Here is the checklist we are given:

Making College More Affordable

Is Government part of the Problem or part of the Solution?

Few Elections for any executive or legislative office go by without some sort of promise to support education and make College more affordable.  With few exceptions - College Prices have increased at a greater rate than general inflation - often two to four times greater.  

Currently, the Obama White House has a number of programs to make college more affordable.  Most of these plans simply focus on making more money available to consumers to purchase a College Education: (1) Increase Grants; (2) Reduce Student Loan Interest Rates; and (3) Modify Student Loan Payments to be based upon income.  

Although aspirational goals are made to make College's reduce their costs - it is unclear how these incentives will outweigh the greater purchasing power of estimated 14.4 million of College Students.

The College Application Game

It's not as fun as the game called Life!

Our second daughter, H, is a Senior at OUR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL (OLHS) and this means pursuing her college options.  The Senior Year is a bit schizophrenic - it is the capstone year to put the finishing touches on your High School Life and it is also the time to get ready for the great beyond.  

The College Counselors at OLHS put on a Senior Night and invited parents to attend to find out all about the process and paying for college.  They suggested a few helpful ideas.