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04/16/2026

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How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act caps Parent PLUS, eliminates Grad PLUS, and leaves families facing a financing gap before July 1.

07/17/2025

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Today's filing suggests that the Department of Ed continues to make painfully slow progress in working through the application backlogs for IDR and PSLF Buyback. Here's the latest.

11/12/2024

How 5 Student Loan Forgiveness Programs Could Change Under Trump. Adam Minsky provided insight into potential changes that the Trump Administration might change.

The future of several student loan relief programs may diverge, depending on a variety of factors including how aggressive the Trump administation’s repeal efforts are.

10/23/2024

At Collegian College Planning, we guide our students in attending the Right College, for the Right Reasons and for the Right Price. We do this for about 99% less than the company mentioned in this article. Oh by the way, our fees are about 99% less than the company mentioned in this article.

To get a leg up in the competitive world of college admissions, some families are spending half a million dollars or more on private consultants.

04/06/2024

The retail price of attending some of the elite colleges is approaching $100,000 per year. Understanding how Colleges provide tuition discounts is one of the many challenges that both Parents and Students go through. At Collegian College Planning, we demystify the process.

As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to attend this fall, many are facing jaw-dropping costs — in some cases, as much as $95,000.

09/09/2023

The CLT test is used by some faith based colleges and now bowing to pressure from Florida Governor Desanti, will use this test in their admissions process.

The Classic Learning Test emphasizes the Western canon and Christian thought. It’s the latest move by Gov. Ron DeSantis to shake up the education establishment.

08/31/2023

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Results from a NACAC poll also show young adults support diverse campus bodies.

06/30/2023

It will be interesting to see how Colleges will react in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision today overturning affirmative action in admissions decisions. It’s still ok to consider legacy in admissions but not race. So stay tuned for the fallout from this decision.

The Supreme Court just shot down the use of race-based admissions in a move that will force many colleges to change the standards by which they admit students.  The ruling came in response to …

06/06/2023

This article from Forbes.com discusses details and options regarding the end of the Student Loan Pause.

The student loan pause is actually, definitively coming to an end after over three years. Here are six critical dates and details that borrowers need to know about.

05/17/2023

Here’s what borrowers need to know, and when to expect a Supreme Court decision on Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.