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How to Find Full Ride Scholarships

01/02/202303/19/2016 by Michelle Kretzschmar

ShareTweetFlipEmailPin379379 Shares See the Full Ride Scholarships spreadsheet created by Wendy Nelson of MyKidsCollegeChoice.com. Wendy has been working on this spreadsheet for years. It lists all US colleges that offer full-ride or full-tuition merit based scholarships. It contains 606 colleges in 49 states with over 1,200 scholarships. If you’re looking for full ride scholarships, this … Read more

How to Pay Less for College: The Value of Rankings

02/28/202110/27/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

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In my last post, I talked about how even colleges are subjected to the laws of supply and demand. The more students want to attend a college, the more the college can charge. If you want to pay less for college, you need to consider colleges with higher acceptance rates. Now I want to look at why so many students are interested in the same college. What makes 50 or fewer colleges so much more attractive than the remaining 1,500? Can you say “college rankings?”

8 Infographics to Help You Understand College Athletic Recruiting

06/20/201910/21/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

An orangutan scratching its head is pictured in a forest setting with text on a banner below saying "Infographics to Help You Understand College Athletic Recruiting.

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If you’re a high school athlete or the parents of an athlete who wants to play at the college level, the sooner you understand the college athletic recruiting process, the sooner you can use the process rather than have the process control you. And while the chances of being paid to be an athlete in your particular sport may be minuscule, it can’t hurt having a grasp of some of the issue of paying student-athletes. I think the following infographics on college athletes provide a good place to start your education.

What’s Wrong with These 135 Colleges…and Does it Matter?

05/24/202109/30/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

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You may have missed the excitement last May when Ronald Nelson announced he was going to attend the University of Alabama. This was a big deal not because Alabama had grabbed the top football recruit in the nation. It was a big deal because Nelson was actually accepted at all eight Ivy League schools, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Washington University in St. Louis. He turned them all down to attend the honors college at the University of Alabama.

84 Best Bet Public Universities for Meeting Financial Need

07/26/201608/11/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

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(Based on some readers comments, I just want to clarify that the schools on this list at the end of the post are only “Best Bets” for residents of the state. Out-of-state students shouldn’t expect any financial assistance from these schools.) If there is a list of the top three things families entering the college search process must know, one of them would have to be that very few colleges meet 100% of need. Just because the federal government and the institution recognize a specific amount of need doesn’t mean the student will receive a matching amount of financial aid. This is why lists of colleges that meet 100% of need are very popular.

Does Getting An Ivy League Education Mean That You Belittle Those Who Choose Not To?

07/26/201606/16/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

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Curses on you Google Alerts! I managed to go over two years without paying any attention to the Ivy Coach blog. But last Friday while going through my weekly Google alerts for information on college admissions, I managed to click on links related to The Ivy Coach twice!

How to Find Merit Scholarships: Follow the Money, Part 3

06/19/201902/03/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

A wooden treasure chest is slightly open with a bright, golden light emanating from inside, casting a glow around the chest, much like the excitement one feels when they find merit scholarships.

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In Part Two of How to Find Merit Scholarships, I said that you need to look at the numbers on institutional aid and non-federal loans to get an idea of which schools are more likely to give out merit money. Now we’ll look at some examples to see how it works.

How to Find Merit Scholarships: Follow the Money, Part 2

07/26/201601/27/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

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(Part 1 showed how to identify colleges that are likely sources of merit money.)

Slug following the money to find merit scholarships Now that you know who has the money, you need to target those schools more likely to be giving it away. I do this by looking at information on institutional grants. This is money the school is giving the student and is usually the largest single source of financial aid for an individual student at private schools. Since IPEDS doesn’t require the school to distinguish between need and merit based grants, I also look at the percentage of freshman who receive the institutional grants.

How to Find Merit Scholarships: Follow the Money

07/26/201601/20/2015 by Michelle Kretzschmar

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There are 1,586 public and not-for-profit colleges with 500 or more full-time undergraduates. Which of them are likely to give you merit scholarships? Unfortunately, there’s really no one right way to search for such colleges. After all, the college that provides a generous amount of merit scholarship to one student will deny it to another.