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Answers to what students and parents ask me most — scholarships, testing, majors, and paying for all of it.

The question I ask students at college fairs isn't what they want to study. Here's what I ask instead, and why.

An interview with an actual scholarship judge on what makes an application stand out of the stack.

Part two: cost. What student debt really looks like after graduation, and how to weigh a school's price honestly.

My dad told me college would shape me through my professors and my friends. He was right — start with fit.

Being successful in college starts with a plan, and that plan should start early in high school.

Why I built this site: thirty years of college fairs, and one conversation about $72,000 in debt I've never forgotten.

Everything I have collected, in one file.

Free, updated regularly, and yours whichever college you choose.

Takes about twenty seconds.