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Most families use all four and rarely decide the proportions deliberately. The order you draw on them changes the total cost considerably.
Continue reading Savings, income, loans, or a job. Four ways households pay for a school year
The four year degree is treated as the safe option and the thing you do if you are unsure. It is a large commitment and it deserves to be chosen rather than defaulted into.
Retention spending is usually decided by whichever lever is easiest to pull. The four options differ enormously in how long the effect lasts.
Most questions families get stuck on about school have a person whose actual job is answering them. The difficulty is knowing which person, and how to ask.
Continue reading Four people who can answer the question you are stuck on, and how to ask
Tuition is the number on the letter and rarely the number that decides anything. The rest of it is knowable in January if you sit down and list it.
Continue reading Build the real number for next school year, line by line, before February
The three main sources of information about a school are each reliable for something and misleading for everything else. The trick is matching them to questions.
Continue reading Campus visit, outcome data, or a student's opinion. Which one answers your question