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Taming The High Cost of College

College Financial Planning

Brad Baldridge

THCC70 – Impact of Grief on Planning for College Interview with Natalia Volz, Founder of www.PassingThroughGrief.com

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Natalia Volz uses her own experience to explain the process of grief, commonly due to death or divorce, and how to still successfully plan for college. Will you need to take a year or two off? Do you need to continue straight through into college? Ms. Volz has the information to help prepare you during the grieving process. Read More…

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THCC68 – How to Help Your College Student Build Their Credit Interview with Ty Crandall, Business Credit Expert and CEO of Credit Suite

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Do you understand your credit score? Does your child? Parents and students alike struggle to understand how credit works, how to build it wisely, and the severe consequences of making credit mistakes. In this episode, Ty Crandall shares his expertise on credit and financing and gives key tips on how to help your college student with building strong credit. Read More…

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THCC67 – Using StatFuse to Better the Odds of Admission to College Interview with Jeet Banerjee, Co-Founder of StatFuse

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“Statfuse is an online application that helps high school and community college students with the college admissions process,” describes Banerjee. Students can fill out a college application and select a college of interest. The site will then give them a percentage of likelihood that they would be accepted to that university or college. Students will also be told their strengths, weaknesses, and what they can do to better their odds of acceptance. In this episode, Jeet Banerjee shares about his experience with applying to college and his website Statfuse Read More…

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THCC66 – Tips on How Undecided Students Can Choose a Major Interview with Kat Clowes, Author “Putting College to Work”

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Ms. Clowes applied to graduate school after taking a year to really consider what she wanted. “What I didn’t know is there is so much more to it that you should be doing during your college years that I was clueless about things like building your network, or knowing what my brand was, or taking advantage of all the resources available to me in college,” remembers Ms. Clowes, “I hoping to help students to figure what else they should be doing to be successful and not have some of the doubt and 10 years of searching afterward which is why I wrote the book.” Read More…

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THCC65 – Writing Quality Essays Interview with Ethan Sawyer, The College Essay Guy

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Most colleges use The Common App which allows students to apply to multiple colleges at once. This usually includes:

  • Personal information.
  • Main personal statement of about 650 words.
    • Sawyer suggests to think of this statement prompt as, “Describe the world you come from and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.”
  • Activities list.
  • Most colleges will request different supplemental essays.
  • This means several different essay requirements per school.

Some of these essays might be exactly the same prompt and can double, but if the topics are different then the essays will be different. Read More…

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THCC64 – Navigating the Admissions Process for Ivy League Schools Interview with Dr. Joie Jager-Hyman, Expert on the College Admissions Process & on American Education

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Choosing and Applying to a College It is important to be realistic. If you are in the academic range of the college you are looking at, be sure to talk to real students.  Be careful to select colleges that your test scores fall into the accepted range of. “The grades are also very important,” explains […]

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