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    How Career Possibilities Can Help You Answer the College Question

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    How Career Possibilities Can Help You Answer the College Question

    We want our high school students to pursue something that they are passionate about in college, and to turn it into a good career. And while high school students have more information at their fingertips, via the web, than we ever could have imagined in high school, they still have limited exposure to career options.

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    How Much Student Debt is Too Much?

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    How Much Student Debt is Too Much?

    College debt is a big problem in the US. And while the media may talk about students graduating with $100,000+ in debt, that is actually not accurate unless they are graduate students. Undergraduate students can only directly take on up to $27,000 in debt ($31,000 if they take a fifth year of college). It is families that take on the rest of that debt. 

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    How to Approach the College Finance Question

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    How to Approach the College Finance Question

    For most families with college-bound students, there is a lot of stress around paying for college. Not only is it very expensive, but unless you know you are paying full tuition the actual cost of college is not known until after you are accepted.

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    How to Prepare for the Increasing Costs of College

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    How to Prepare for the Increasing Costs of College

    Parents read things like, “the cost of college has been rising much faster than the rate of inflation,” but it’s hard to put that into context. However, it’s really instructive if we do.

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    College is a Project, Not a Product

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    College is a Project, Not a Product

    Our relentless and seductive consumer culture has convinced us that college is a product, something with pretty packaging and a list of features a mile long that we can’t live without. 

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    Turning Your College Dream into a Plan

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    Turning Your College Dream into a Plan

    The most surprising aspect of this college project is how much the student has to do with the ultimate cost of college. The answer to the problem lies within the problem, and we need to understand how to reveal the solution. 

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