AMC A-List & Movies Coming in 2024
Last summer, I experienced the AMC A-List. By the end of the summer, I had seen 35 movies in six months. There were a large number of movies I wanted to see, but will 2024 offer more Spider-Man: Into the…
Supplemental Applications for Top Colleges
Getting good grades and doing well on the SAT was all I was told when I wanted to apply to college. I laughed when I heard that some schools required an essay. I avoided honors English…
Application Deadlines for Top Universities
If you plan on attending an American university, there are two dates that you should be concerned with. November 1st and January 1st of your final year of high school. Applications open in August, and if you want to apply…
Leveraging Early Decision to Apply to Top Colleges
Every college has application deadlines. You can only be admitted by submitting all necessary information through their application app (probably Common App). There are different ways and times you can apply, though. One critical method available at…
How to Start Applying to Top Colleges
One of the significant changes in the college landscape is how students apply to the colleges they want to attend. In the past, applicants needed to submit different forms to each university they hoped to attend. The…
Top Colleges and the SAT
This is a reader-friendly version of the data found here. However, it would be best if you did not use this PDF as a definitive resource, as it looks like it was published in 2015. **Recent Changes**02-25-2024:…
Can You Successfully Use Life Insurance to Shelter Assets from FAFSA/CSS?
My previous post discussed ways to move your assets away from reportable investment accounts. You can review FAFSA or walk through the CSS Profile, but here are the essential pieces I took directly from the two: FAFSA Investments include: real estate…
FIRE Assets and College Financial Aid
I touched on this subject in my 2024 Financial Aid & FIRE and Surprise Benefit of FIRE in Southern Illinois post. Still, I would like to elaborate further on my frustration with the financial aid system of top-tier colleges. 2024-25…
2023 Streaks in Review (Part 3)
We conclude our three-part series in my current streaks. No Caffeine (228 days in 2023) I apparently set a goal of 300 days of being caffeine-free. I never checked on this goal. I did worse than…
2023 Streaks in Review (Part 2)
There are so many streaks that I need multiple posts to track all of them. Part 1 Blogging (1046-day streak) I accepted last year that my blog will never be the world's go-to destination. I mean, my…