The price you pay for college : an entirely new road map for the biggest financial decision your family will ever make / Ron Lieber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lieber, Ron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College costs--United States.

College costs.

United States.

College choice--United States.

College choice.

Physical Description:

viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Road map for the biggest financial decision your family will ever make

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Summary:

The New York Times 'Your Money' personal finance columnist 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. Many private colleges cost triple that. Lieber helps families navigate this journey, which has been compounded by a global pandemic and the resulting chaos in higher education. He asks the questions most parents don't know (or are afraid) to ask, and summarizes the research about what matters and what doesn't. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE PRICE AND COST OF COLLEGE AND THE SYSTEMS BEHIND IT

ch. 1 Who Pays What and Why the Price Is So High

ch. 2 FAFSA and Its Expected Family Contribution Will Probably Make You Furious; Blame the Federal Government's Great Expectations

ch. 3 How (and Why) Merit Aid Became Mainstream

ch. 4 The Billion-Dollar Consultants Who Are Wooing You

ch. 5 But Wait, Isn't Tuition a Bubble, and All of Higher Education Is Going to Come Apart at the Seams?

pt. II THE UNHELPFUL FEELINGS YOU MAY FEEL

ch. 6 Fear

ch. 7 Guilt

ch. 8 The Pull of Snobbery and Elitism

pt. III VALUE: THINGS WORTH PAYING FOR

ch. 9 Classrooms Where Experienced Instructors Have Time to Teach (and Actually Want To)

ch. 10 Schools Where Students Learn (Because Many of Them Don't)

ch. 11 Undergraduate Mental Health Centers That Are Not in Crisis

ch. 12 Peers Worth Friending (or Marrying)

ch. 13 The Special Power of Women's Colleges

ch. 14 Diversity in All Its Forms

ch. 15 How and When Small School Size Matters

ch. 16 Amenities (but Is a Lazy River a Plus?)

ch. 17 Genuinely Reinvented Career Counseling Offices

ch. 18 Places That Create Better Odds When Applying to Grad School

ch. 19 Better Salaries When You Finish

if You Finish

ch. 20 How the College of Wooster Puts It All Together

pt. IV MONEY-SAVING HACKS THAT WILL TEMPT YOU

ch. 21 Community College Will Save You Money, but What Might You Lose?

ch. 22 Honors Colleges and Programs Make Bigger Schools Smaller

if You Stick with the Program

ch. 23 Attending College Abroad Is Often Cheaper, but You Won't Get What You Don't Pay For

ch. 24 Athletic Scholarships for the Few (and Probably Not in Full or at Your First-Choice School)

ch. 25 Gap Years: Great, Sometimes Pricey, Might Help You Get a Better Job Someday

ch. 26 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard: Decent Money, Big Responsibility

ch. 27 Skipping College Is Probably Not a Great Idea

pt. V THE PLANS: SAVING, TALKING, TOURING, BARGAINING, AND BORROWING

ch. 28 How to Make the Big Financial Plan

ch. 29 How to Have the College Money Talk with Your Child

ch. 30 All Your Questions About Saving for College and 529 Plans

ch. 31 How to Shop for College (and Where to Find the Juicy Merit Aid Data)

ch. 32 When (and How) to Hire an Independent College Counselor or Financial Planner

ch. 33 How to Appeal Your Financial Aid Award

ch. 34 All the Student Loan Basics in One Tidy Place

ch. 35 One More Feeling: Hope.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index.

ISBN:

9780062867308

006286730X

9780062867315

OCLC:

1231716924