Higher Anxiety About Higher Education
Source: New York Times Posted By: Vonne M...5493 days ago
FOR high school seniors applying to college, this has been an April unlike any in recent memory, if ever.
As families watch their paychecks and college savings accounts shrink, and their household expenses rise, the colleges themselves are scrambling to cut their budgets, too. Which has made the receipt of a so-called fat envelope — brimming with the good news of college acceptance, along with details of scholarships and loans — not necessarily the moment of joy it might have been in years pa