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In a perfect world, your hard-working high school student has achieved good grades and earned high scores on all of the standardized tests. This has put him or her in line to receive a tidy sum of money by way of a merit scholarship, and your college tuition worries are over.

To understand how funding works for PhD programs, you first need to understand the different possible funding scenarios. Here is a breakdown of the different ways PhD candidates are funded by their universities.

Do you see an MD in your future? The medical profession is exciting, engaging, and rewarding, but life as a doctor can also be demanding and filled with stress. Use this infographic to explore the time commitment, potential salaries, and demographics involved with the medical field, and the emotional and social factors that might influence your decision to become a doctor.

Despite the thought and care put into school selection, it is possible to discover down the line that a child's school is not meeting his or her educational needs. So how does a parent go about making a change?

"For some students, college admission is the golden ticket," he said. "It's like they've been in 'prison' for several years - noses constantly to the grindstone; serious all the time. But when a university admits them, it's a get out of jail free card."

One of the most important steps to take once you've found a potential tutor is to conduct an interview. You want to make sure that the tutor is a good fit for your child (or for you) on every level.

What does declaring a major on your college applications really mean? And more importantly, should you do it? Unfortunately, if you’re looking for a quick and easy answer, you won’t find one […]

Ultimately, transferring to another college is an extremely personal decision, and it’s impossible to know what is best for any individual student. *** Early into my undergraduate years, a close friend and […]

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Less than a generation ago, most college students who wanted to become lawyers went immediately from graduation to law school. Taking a year or two off between undergraduate and law studies was seen as unusual at best, and wasteful at worst.

Choosing the best method to prepare for the SAT or ACT can be difficult. Tutoring is expensive. Courses often have inflexible, time-intensive schedules that are hard to fit into an already overbooked […]

People go into medicine for a whole host of reasons - they like science, they crave variety, they want their work to make a difference in the field - but underlying all of these motives is a desire to help people.