By J.D. Wyczalek Multiple hundred thousands of hopeful students wish to attend college in California. Some will be in for a rude and shocking awakening. Universities of California Admission officers have yet to finish reviewing applications for 2009. The record number of applications that have arrived almost certainly means more applicants than ever will receive […]

Midyear of highschool What should you be doing right now if your student is a High School Senior. Answer: filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid at www.FAFSA.ed.gov, dont slack off on your grades. What should you be doing right now if your student is a High School Junior. Answer: Your student should have […]

Ladies and Gents, drum roll please! Higher education is too expensive for me. I can’t afford it. Truth be known, you can’t afford not to go. Few students pay the “sticker price” for college or Cost of Attendance (COA). You pay the difference between the financial aid available and the COA, which is usually much […]

The easiest thing students can do to earn free money for college is get good grades and test well on the standardized tests (SAT/ACT). Now this doesn’t start when your student is in the middle of their senior year of high school. Start good grades when you are a Freshman in high school. Yeah-yeah I […]

Financial Aid Scammers pop their foul heads up again   It is bad enough that students and parents are bombarded every which way with college admissions, essays, and financial aid. Now parents and students need to keep their antennas up for shady criminals.   Lets call them what they are low down dirty thieves, crooks, […]

By J.D. Wyczalek Remember the line in the hit movie Jerry Maguire “Show me the money!” There is also an old adage why do thieves rob banks, because that is where the money is. In the whole college financial aid game (and yes it is a game with players, winners and losers) in this game […]

I bet you’ll be surprised about how student loans REALLY work.  Here’s what I mean. On Monday, NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement with the College Board over its former loan practices. That’s right, that’s the same College Board that tortures high schoolers with the SAT, the CSS/Profile financial aid form and other […]

State offers $1 million in aid to low-income students By:Philip Haldiman, Dec 3, 2008 (see J.D.’s comments at the end of this article.) Low-income college and university students just received another financial-aid opportunity from the state. Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that $1 million in new financial-aid funding from the U.S. Department of Education will […]

The foul hands that caused the economic meltdown are far reaching. Now reaching into our children’s future. It was once thought a privilege to attend college. Only the elite and wealthy were well educated. No longer is this the fact. College is attainable by any who have the desire to attend. It is just a […]

Hi this is J.D. Wyczalek (why-zall-ick) the College Guy. I am really excited about a new project I am working on called CollegeTV. Here is how it works. Submit a question to me regarding anything to related to college. It could be questions like: which is the best college for my student, how do I […]