The search for college scholarships is an ongoing process. It takes time and organization. The hunt can be started as soon as the summer before your senior year. Some scholarships might even need to be completed at least a year before you graduate. (This is why staying organized is critical to a successful scholarship search.) […]

The college application process is complete. So what do you do in the meantime? Here are a few items you can take care of that aren’t typically on the radar of “things to do”, but they should be! These are the kinds of things you don’t want to overlook before your student heads off to […]

The turbulence of COVID during 2020 has been enough for all of us, but did COVID make FAFSA easier? Does a pandemic make filing for FAFSA easier? Yes! We are most excited to hear about the simplification of the process itself. According to NerdWallet, "the high school graduating class of 2017 left $2.6 billion in […]

The time to start applying for FAFSA is NOW! There is a lot of information to work through and missing a step can be detrimental to your application process. But before you head over to the Federal Student Aid website...   READ THIS FIRST!   Our colleague, Jeff Levy at Big J Educational Consulting, consolidated […]

There has been A LOT of discussion whether the schools students are applying to really are test optional and also if students will be penalized for NOT submitting test scores to a "test optional" school. COVID has really put a spin on everything in the past several months, but in order to bring some certainty […]