The Price You Pay for College

Release on 2021-01-26 | by Ron Lieber

The Price You Pay for College gives parents the clarity they need to make informed choices and helps restore the joy and wonder the college experience is supposed to represent.

Author: Ron Lieber
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062867322
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 368
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The Price You Pay for College

The hugely popular New York Times “Your Money” columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college. Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple—over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and humor that infuse his personal finance column, Ron Lieber offers a much-needed roadmap to help families navigate this difficult and often confusing journey. Lieber begins by explaining who pays what and why and how the financial aid system got so complicated. He also pulls the curtain back on merit aid, an entirely new form of discounting that most colleges now use to compete with peers. While price is essential, value is paramount. So what is worth paying extra for, and how do you know when it exists in abundance at any particular school? Is a small college better than a big one? Who actually does the teaching? Given that every college claims to have reinvented its career center, who should we actually believe? He asks the tough questions of college presidents and financial aid gatekeepers that parents don’t know (or are afraid) to ask and summarizes the research about what matters and what doesn’t. Finally, Lieber calmly walks families through the process of setting financial goals, explaining the system to their children and figuring out the right ways to save, borrow, and bargain for a better deal. The Price You Pay for College gives parents the clarity they need to make informed choices and helps restore the joy and wonder the college experience is supposed to represent.

Language: en
Pages: 368

The Price You Pay for College

Authors: Ron Lieber

Categories: Family & Relationships

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-26 - Publisher: HarperCollins

Language: en
Pages: 196

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Categories: Reference

Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: College Board

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Language: en
Pages: 57

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Categories: Education, Higher

Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:

Books about Preparing Your Child for College

Language: en
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Categories: Business & Economics

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Language: en
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Authors: Reyna Gobel

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-20 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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