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USACollegeChat Podcast

May 26, 2016

Back in Episode 71, we talked about the nightmare of remedial courses required of too many incoming college freshmen. We spoke of remedial courses—or the so-called “developmental sequences”—as a purgatory from which many students never escape. That is, they never escape into actual college credit courses....


May 19, 2016

Our episode today is a direct result of my recent trip to London to pick up my daughter and bring her home. What that means really is that she needed someone to bring suitcases that she could fill up with her possessions after one year of graduate study in London and someone to help her get them all on the airplane to...


May 13, 2016

We have talked about money and how to pay for college any number of times, but we thought we would try to pull it all together in this episode.  Here are your notes for the episode (but you should tune in to get the full explanation for each of these 17 tips:

  1. Have the “money talk” with your child—what you can...


May 5, 2016

Our episode today takes a look at the 529 plans that states offer to their residents (and actually to residents of other states, too) as a way to save for college and protect the earnings on those savings from taxes.  We are pleased to have Vivian Tsai, Senior Director of ScholarShare, and Yvette Haring, Team Manager of...