When you bring a child into your family, you know that it’ll change your financial circumstances forever. Early in their life, you assume that you have enough time to save for the future. But time has a way of flying by. And when that happens, you may soon realize that you don’t have enough saved…
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Visiting Olin College of Engineering
Olin College of Engineering Campus Visit in Needham, MA. It’s a very small school with about 80+ students per grade. It is a wonderful mix of engineering integrated with hands-on design. Located in Needham in Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston, it abuts Babson College in a tranquil next to Wellesley. It is an undergraduate…
All About the Brown | RISD Dual Degree Program
The Brown | RISD Dual Degree Program draws on the complementary strengths of two world-class institutions and offers students the opportunity to develop and integrate diverse spheres of academic and artistic interests by pursuing degrees at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design over five years. My daughter attends RISD and her summer roommate,…
Backdoor Entry to Ivy League
Early Decision for college applications is coming up and I wanted to share two lesser-known backdoor strategies for getting into highly selective colleges such as Ivy League. Early Decision (ED) is binding; a student who is accepted as an ED applicant must attend the college — in theory — because I discovered a strategy that…
Visiting Pomona College
Visiting Pomona College, the liberal arts college that is part of the 5C Claremont Colleges. Takeaways: Pomona College has the benefits of being part of 5 colleges (5C) with a larger university setting of about 6,000 undergraduate students but with the intimacy of a small college Pomona College is around 1600 students, about 400 per…