Archive for August, 2009

Ready, AIMS fire?!?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

The current state of the economy for Arizona is a determining factor if (and it is a big if) if the AIMS (Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards) [A.K.A. Regents High Honors Endorsement Scholarship] scholarship will be available to bright students in the very near future.
Here is the latest news regarding the AIMS scholarship.
The official statement [...]

College ranking polls, is there a blatant ‘chad’ error?

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Pool season is almost over and now it’s POLL season. You know the ones. Those polls that rank colleges based on a variety of criteria. Polls that stir up a frenzy and make hopeful college students drool like puppies anticipating their Scooby snack.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal asks the questions ‘what the [...]

Why surf college websites

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Tips for surfing college websites. Long gone are the days when colleges depended only on the brochures and view books they could fit inside your mailbox. They now devote large chunks of their websites to grabbing your attention. But there’s much more to a college website than the Web pages of the admissions office. By [...]

Obama’s new hope & lifetime learning credit changes

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

“HOPE & LIFETIME LEARNING CREDITS—CHANGES 2009 AND 2010″
For the years 2009 and 2010, the following changes have been made to
the Hope credit. The modified credit is also referred to as the
American Opportunity Tax Credit.
The maximum amount of the Hope credit increases to $2,500 per
student. The credit is phased out (gradually reduced) if your
modified adjusted gross [...]