The price you pay for college: an entirely new road map for the biggest financial decision your family will ever make - Ron Lieber

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• The hugely popular New York Times Your Money columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college.
• Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States.
• Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple--over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and humor that infuse his hugely popular personal finance column, Ron Lieber offers a much-needed roadmap to help families navigate this difficult and often confusing journey.
• Lieber begins by explaining who pays what and why and how the financial aid system got so complicated.
• He also pulls the curtain back on merit aid, an entirely new form of discounting that most colleges now use to compete with peers.
• While price is essential, value is paramount.
• So what is worth paying extra for, and how do you know when it exists in abundance at any particular school?
• Is a small college better than a big one?
• Who actually does the teaching?
• Given that every college claims to have reinvented its career center, who should we actually believe?