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Getting into college can be hard. But figuring out how to finance college so that neither parent nor child are left financially hard up? It’s a new, highly annoying level of hard — at least if you ...

Schools turn to little-known consultants, owned by private equity firms, to find applicants and calculate scholarships. Here’s how that affects the price you pay. By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber’s experience ...

With the S&P 500 whipsawing in 2025, recent market volatility comes at a particularly bad time for college savers. For some parents, their 529 account balances took a hit just as tuition payments are ...