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KNIGHTtime News GUIDING YOUR COLLEGE PROCESS
THE NEWS BULLETIN
Articles We are Reading
Matt Mettille
DO I DESERVE THIS?
Menlo grad Lauren Chan ’17 shares advice to prefrosh at Yale University.
STOP ASKING ABOUT MY KID’S COLLEGE PLANS
Great advice for parents in this New York Times article. The author wisely states, “Our kids are leaving home in a year. No more books all over the table, no more late-night cups of tea. I don’t want to spend our remaining time obsessing about where my daughter is going to college. Except for the tuition (deep breath), the destination is beyond my control.”
SYSTEM CRASH
There is a nationwide shortage of computer science faculty members.
Bea Hodavdekar
CAN THE MIDDLE CLASS
AFFORD COLLEGE?
While more attention has been placed on providing nancial aid for low-income families, not as much has been placed on providing aid for middle class families. This Washington Post article explores the challenges that face this group of families who require aid.
THE COST CONUNDRUM
Applying for nancial aid isn’t necessarily the most challenging part of the process, rather, it’s nding nancial aid resources that is the most challenging part of the process. Read on for advice on learning more about the nancial aid process.
Lisa Giarratano
WHAT’S NOW?
Instead on focusing on what’s next, Rick Clark focuses on “What’s Now” and how living in the present is evading us more than ever.
HIGHER ED’S LOW MOMENT
Frank Bruni, New York Times, discusses “...this unsettling, dangerous paradox: At a time
when a college degree is one of
the surest harbingers of higher earnings and better economic security, college itself is regarded with skepticism by many Americans and outright contempt by no small number of them.”
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