Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Penn now offer free or heavily reduced tuition to families earning below $200,000, creating a six-figure benefit that can justify switching from Roth to traditional retirement ...

The Brandeis Commitment provides domestic families within specified income ranges a generous scholarship package covering either full or half tuition, meets 100% of demonstrated financial need in the ...

Dear Liz: You wrote in a recent column that grandparents could pay tuition directly to a school, and it would not trigger a gift tax return. That’s true, but my daughters have told me — and two ...

This financial aid form is the key to non-federal aid at some colleges Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He is also the author of two ...

The CSS Profile, a detailed financial aid application by the College Board, is required by many U.S. universities to award institutional grants and scholarships. Because each institution sets its own ...

The University of Wisconsin will change its financial aid application process this fall by adding the College Scholarship Service Profile (CSS Profile). The CSS Profile is a longer, more detailed ...

Helping children get into college can be draining and complicated. As unpleasant as the experience can be, it can be even trickier for divorced households. In recent years, various changes have ...

The Brandeis Commitment provides domestic families within specified income ranges a generous scholarship package covering either full or half tuition, meets 100% of demonstrated financial need in the ...

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Duke, 39 other top universities and the College Board of price-fixing to increase tuition costs for divorced and separated households. The class-action ...

A federal judge this week sided with elite colleges and dismissed a lawsuit that accused 40 top schools and the College Board of a price-fixing scheme to increase costs for students with divorced or ...