A Recommended Site For Parents

Parents Forum
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<p>I was going to post this over in admissions, but I figured parents may benefit just as much from this info.</p>

<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/index.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov/index.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Click "School, College, and Library Search" and enter your school name. When you click the school on the search results, a new window will pop up. Click "More Information" (next to "print" at the top).</p>

<p>Why it is useful
For example, click on "financial aid" when you are at a school's profile. It will give you a breakdown of the average financial aid package divided into Loans, Institutional Grants, and Federal Grants</p>

<p>It has information on graduation/retention rates and shows percentages with 4 years, 5 years, and 6 years.</p>

<p>It has all this information for nearly every college.</p>

<p>I hope it helps.</p>

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<p>Most helpful! Many thanks!</p>

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<p>Also helpful: After clicking on the "more information" and getting the school profile, click on "admissions". This gives some admissions #'s and stats more quickly than navigating some of the schools' websites.</p>

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<p>I've given out this link several times on this bb, but prefer to start from here: <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>