Colleges and universities make applicants get admitted before quoting the price they would actually pay. Until recently, this was merely annoying.Now, it’s glaringly counterproductive to the goal of enrolling freshman […]
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Back to news homeSome Colleges Offer Quotes of Competitors’ Prices. Be Wary.
Every year, a new crop of innocents arrive in the marketplace for an undergraduate degree. Very quickly, they get an education in some unwritten rules.Families often don’t pay the listed […]
JPMorgan Paid $175 Million for a Business It Now Says Was a Scam
There, she was on financial aid, and she found the forms confusing. So did her parents, according to an interview she gave to Diversity Woman magazine — including her father, […]
How Fairfield University Ended Up With Few Low-Income Students
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Last night, the first official basketball game at Fairfield University’s brand-new, 85,000-square-foot Leo D. Mahoney Arena took place. The building, which cost $51 million, takes pride of […]
Student Loan Subsidies Could Have Dangerous, Unintended Side Effects
The centerpiece of the student debt-relief plan that President Biden announced last month is his decision to cancel up to $20,000 per borrower in federal loans. But the more far-reaching […]
The Subprime Loans for College Hiding in Plain Sight
At the time, you could borrow only $3,000 per year. In 1992, that cap went away, thanks, it seems, to a successful push by a higher education lobbying association, according […]
Student Loan Forgiveness Is Complicated, Because This Is America
If we want higher education to cost less, we should make it cheaper when people enroll.But that’s not how we do things in the United States, where the first rule […]
Why We Still Haven’t Solved the Unpaid Internship Problem
The president and vice president announced this month that they were going to pay their interns. The White House put out a news release. I think we were supposed to […]
The Potential Dark Side of a White-Hot Labor Market
Ms. Calvo is hoping to work her way up to the assistant store-manager level, which would put her in a salaried position, and thinks she has made the prudent choice […]
Student Loan Borrowers Don’t Deserve ‘Forgiveness.’ They Deserve an Apology.
Still not convinced that the nation should ask debtors for absolution, and not the other way around? Consider the facts.First, there’s the Free Application for Financial Aid, or FAFSA, which […]