College Consult Articles

List of 15 schools that skimp on meeting need and offering merit aid

In just a generation or two, we’ve gone from students working their way through college without too much trouble, to many parents still being able to write checks to cover tuition out of current income, to sticker prices being so high that two decades of savings may not be enough to cover two children from relatively affluent families.

Schools often refer to this as the “interest quotient,” and admitting students with high scores on this measure can improve a college’s yield rate, and in turn, its ranking.

To-do list for college-bound seniors

Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates the flawed methodology of the U.S. News and World Report’s annual listing of the “best” colleges. A college counselor explains why relying on these rankings can send a college search wildly off-track.