Not too many people, it turns out, make their college decision based on price.
Researchers are working to understand why people land at one college over another. Not too many people, it turns out, make their decision based on price.
The payments also are likely to follow students after graduation. Today, more than half of young adults with a bachelor's degree are saddled with student loans. Just 18 percent of people with more than $50,000 in student debt"strongly agree" that their education was worth the cost. Ask yourself: Will this school help me get into the graduate school I want? Will it lead to the type of job I'd like?For example, Montesano said some of his clients will overlook colleges that are"top feeders" into the country's best law, business and medical schools as well as Ph.D. programs, just because they don't boast a well-known or Ivy League title.
Some schools will offer merit-based aid. If they do, and if you have the grades and test scores that that college wants,"you have a pretty good chance of getting merit aid," said Jane Klemmer, an educational consultant in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
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