Does Your Family Have a Plan B? Attending college next fall may not even be possible! It’s too expensive, even with the merit aid received, for a middle-class family in New Hampshire whose daughter applied to several “out of reach (financially) schools and refused to apply to cheaper schools.” State Schools vs. Private Colleges? Is One Better Than The Other? “Why does it seem like state schools are the last choice?” asks a California mom new to the college process.
How To Handle An Alumni College Admissions Interview? Questions You Never Knew You Had: Who pays? Should my son treat the alumni interviewer at the local Starbucks to his coffee?
How To Whittle Down a Long List of Colleges to Visit? A Louisiana mom planning a March trip with her high school sophomore son, a U.S. history buff, to tour colleges in and near Baltimore, Washington, DC and Virginia asked for help in scaling back her long and possibly overly-ambitious college list.
Summer Ideas For High School Students “Should your high school junior take free summer classes at the community college OR travel out west?” asks a North Carolina mom about her high G.P.A./high test score son. He can’t do both.
Pay It Forward. Members Share Their Advice On College Admissions and Paying for College. To Parents with Students already in College: What are you glad you did, regret you didn’t do or wish you knew last year?, asks a mom in New Jersey.
That’s it for now; stay tuned for our next edition of ICYMI coming in early February. | 
