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How Multiple Kids in College Affects Financial Aid Students with siblings in college should prepare to possibly receive less financial aid in future years, experts say.

Financial aid packages still burden students with debt, report finds - The Boston Globe “The pathway to a degree in Massachusetts brings high cost and debt,” said Anika Van Eaton, the Massachusetts policy director for uAspire, which advises students about financial aid offers here and in New York and California.

Boycott targets college admissions boost given to children of alumni at Harvard, other elite schools - The Boston Globe A national group is launching a campaign to end “legacy” preferences, using an alumni donations boycott.

Here are some steps to follow if you are waitlisted.

The Waitlist. Why?! The only thing more annoying than a four-year old incessantly asking you why is a twelve-year-old, impersonating a four-year old asking you why. Plus, they are faster, and not as easily distracted …

This has been a year unlike any another in admissions.

College Admission Season Is Crazier Than Ever. That Could Change Who Gets In. By waiving SATs and ACTs, highly selective schools invited an unprecedented wave of applications, upending the traditional decision process.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/colleges-covid-applicants.html

Interest Surges in Top Colleges, While Struggling Ones Scrape for Applicants Waiving standardized test requirements during the pandemic brought more hopefuls to the Ivy League and large state schools, while less-selective colleges face an alarming drop.

No more subject tests and essays, here are some answers to possible questions you might have.

SAT Subject Tests & optional SAT essay cancelled: FAQs We answer your FAQs about the cancellation of SAT Subject Tests and the optional SAT essay.

Several Ivy's raised their tuition 4-5%....

These colleges went to remote learning but hiked tuition anyway A number of colleges and universities raised tuition in 2020 and 2021, even though classes are being taught online due to the coronavirus crisis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/business/financial-aid-college-merit-aid.html?referringSource=articleShare

High School Grades Could Be Worth $100,000. Time to Tell Your Child? Most colleges and universities now use a “merit” aid strategy to solicit teenagers. Your eighth grader probably ought to know how it works.

College Board is scrapping SAT’s optional essay and subject tests Officials say they want to ease demands on students. A revision of the SAT is also planned.

Pandemic Relief Package Simplifies FAFSA The COVID-19 relief legislation simplifies the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), reducing the form from 108 questions to about three dozen questions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/colleges-coronavirus-thanksgiving.html

Thanksgiving Will Soon Empty Campuses. Will Students Bring Coronavirus Home? Experts worry that some of the hundreds of thousands of departing students will be “little ticking time bombs.”