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Appealing a Financial Aid Offer in 2024
The following is an updated version of the financial aid appeals newsletter that was sent to our clients in March 2023. As you’re most likely already aware, 2024 has been a challenging year, both for college applicants and for financial aid offices across the...
Don’t Stress! Your Financial Aid Offer Will Arrive.
We’re here to tell you: don’t panic. If you haven’t heard back from all of the colleges on your student’s list about financial aid packages, that is OK. This year, the updated FAFSA form was available later than usual because the government has changed their system...
Is College Still Worth It?
As of 2022, almost 40% of Americans over the age of 25 had at least a bachelor’s degree. This national average has been climbing since the 1970s along with the average cost of higher education. Though it has increasingly become the norm for graduating high school...
Applications are in! What’s next?
Seniors—congratulations on submitting your applications! You may have a few January deadlines left to complete, but the light at the end of the tunnel is clear. You should be proud of yourselves for your hard work and dedication throughout the entire college...
Financial Aid Explained
At Strategies For College, we strongly encourage parents to start planning their financial strategy for their student’s higher education before their senior year of high school. This process involves quite a bit of research and should include a careful, honest...
Seniors…It’s GO Time!
It’s September, the beginning of a new school year, which also means the college application season has arrived. At SFC, we think of this as the time when we switch from the strategic planning phase to the tactical phase of our engagement. For seniors, this is where...
Introducing the Digital SATs
One of the ongoing changes since the pandemic is the continued integration of virtual and digital elements into academic life. I spoke to Morris Kohanfars, who works at the test preparation company ArborBridge, to learn more about the upcoming shift to a digital...
The Benefits of Reading for Fun
According to surveys conducted by The National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, the rates at which teenagers read for fun have declined even further nationwide since 2019. That year, the NAEP determined that the number of 8th-graders who read...
Social Media & Parents in the College Process
In our previous newsletter, we discussed the impact social media may have on teenagers during the college process. Here is the second in the two-part series, in which we look at how parents may be influenced by social media during the same period of time. Nowadays,...
Social Media & the College Process
The following is the first of a two-part series about the impact of social media on the college search process; in this newsletter, we look at the students’ relationship with social media. Keep an eye on your inbox for the second part of the series in our next...
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