There is a scholarship (or many scholarships) out there for everyone.  Every student has some skill, interest, experience, or characteristic that may make them an attractive candidate for one scholarship or another.  And while we often refer to scholarships as “free money,” scholarships don’t actually come for free.  It takes work to thoughtfully consider your strengths and research the scholarships that might be most appropriate for you.  While the effort that goes into finding and winning scholarships may be akin to a part-time job, we at College Coach want to make your job a little easier.  This on-going scholarship series highlights a new scholarship each week.  Check out the below, along with the other posts in the series, and you may discover a funding resource that will make covering that college bill a little (or a lot!) easier.

Families of many high school juniors utilize winter or spring vacation weeks to take some long-distance college visits.  Before planning any trips, however, make sure you pop over to StudentUniverse, and read College Coach’s own Ian Fisher’s top five tips for college visits.  Ian shows families how to plan a successful college visit, making the most of their time and money. With Ian’s advice, your child will come away from their college visit trip having garnered some new insight as to what they want—and don’t want—in a college, and, with any luck, your family will have had a whole lot of fun along the way.

In the final Getting In: A College Coach Conversation episode of 2016, host Sally Ganga spent the majority of the show answering college admissions and finance related questions submitted by listeners. But first, Sally addressed what seniors can—and should!—be doing now that they have submitted their college applications.

With the New Year come resolutions. If you’re a recent college graduate, you’ve likely had a lot on your plate these last few months: starting a new job, moving to your own place, taking responsibility for bills, navigating financial products, and maybe even repaying your student loans. If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by all of this new responsibility, and want to take charge of your finances in 2017, here are a few tips to help you start:

In admissions, there are rarely any in-the-know summer programs that, in and of themselves, will get an admissions officer to shout “Admit!” in committee. A summer program’s admissions impact is often more organic in nature: it might provide the foundation or connections for more challenging experiences down the road.

Sally Ganga filled in for our regular host, Beth Heaton, during this week’s timely and informative episode of Getting In: A College Coach Conversation, covering what seniors should do after receiving an Early Action or Early Decision letter, as well as trends in college pricing affecting juniors’ planning.

Whether your child is a high school junior wanting a check out a few local campuses or a high school senior trying to decide between schools they’ve already been accepted to, a college visit can be a critical step in your family’s college selection process.

This is the third of a three-part series on saving for college. The blog posts have focused on strategies and advice for parents of newborns, elementary schoolers, and, now, middle and high school age kids. In other words, no matter how old your child is, it’s never too late or too early to start saving for college!

It is a busy time of year in the world of college applications with early application decisions rolling in and most regular decision deadlines just around the corner. On the latest episode of Getting In: A College Coach Conversation, host Elizabeth Heaton welcomed College Coach expert Zaragoza Guerra to talk about how students and families can approach the final push to application deadlines and to offer tips for having a New Year’s eve free of college applications.