Choosing Colleges With The Price Tag In Mind

Price is increasingly becoming a factor in choosing colleges for application, and enrollment.  67% or two-thirds of families surveyed recently for a Sallie Mae study, eliminated potential colleges at some point in the application and research process based on price, with 40% not even researching colleges after learning the yearly costs.  Our clients are following…

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Gaining Scholarships & Paying for College is a Process

The recent October Comstock’s Magazine–a business publication in our Sacramento region–featured Art’s & Jill’s advice to plan for rising college expenses and answer the all-important how to apply for scholarships question.  Click here to read more. Financing a college education is a series of choices–sometimes over years.    However, waiting until the first tuition bill arrives…

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Why Teens Don’t Always Apply for Scholarships

Shifts in the views of parents with children aged 16 or younger about when adulthood financial independence should begin coincides with parents concerns about paying for college.    In Creative Marbles experience, parents expect to shoulder the majority of college costs, at the same time expecting children to contribute toward their education.  However, the shift in…

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College costs more than 4 years of tuition

Student loan debt is future income brought forward.  To an 18 year old college Freshman, with little experience in financial responsibility, this concept may be foreign.   Financial literacy is only part of the resolution; students and parents need foresight and continued roll-up-their-sleeves effort to pick colleges that will give them the greatest value for their…

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