Guides
A Guide to Financial Aid: Affording Your Education
It’s expensive to go to college. Whether you are a student about to take your first step into higher education or a parent who wants your child to have the best shot in the world, it’s important to educate yourself about financial aid. Simply put, financial aid is a way to help you cover the astronomical costs of a college education—which, over four years, can be more than the price of a house in some cities! So, for 85% of families with children attending college, financial aid is a must.
A Guide to College Fit: Building a List and Researching Colleges
“College fit” is a commonplace term in college application conversations, and especially here at ILUMIN, where we emphasize the importance of finding the college with the right culture, opportunities, and resources for each of our students. The term seems simple enough at first glance, but then students ask themselves the question, “which colleges fit me well?” and quickly realize the answer is hardly straightforward. Fit is a difficult thing to determine, after all.
A Guide to ED/EA: How to Make the ED Decision
Early deadlines have been a contentious subject in the past few years as more and more top-ranked universities are filling up larger fractions of their incoming class through early pools, especially Early Decision. Early applicants generally are more interested in the school, and Early Decision admittees are bound to attend, boosting the college’s yield rate significantly.
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