How do you afford all those college visits?

cptofthehouse
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:10:41 +0000

Youdontsay, once you narrow down the type of school your kid seems to like and best serves his needs and wants, you can start get an enlargening circle of like schools by reading and talking to those with experience with the schools. Your child should be getting info from internet, books, friends, college materials as well. If money is an issue, you want to focus on schools that are farther away that have a decent chance of coughing up some money. That’s what we are doing. No sense looking at an Lac in Texas when we are on the eastcoast, if it is not apt to give much since the additional travel expense will multiply if the student ends up there. It would have to give something truly extra not available closer by to be worth the app. With our son, we found, to all of our surprises, that he likes the Catholic colleges. So we are looking at smaller Catholic schools in or near a big city which has taken us out of area in a few cases.