Can you negotiate the price of college and ask for more money? What is merit aid? How do you get it? How am I supposed to budget when I don’t know what it will cost, and how do I manage my child’s interest in really expensive colleges?
Ron Lieber, Your Money columnist from the New York Times, returns to to pull the curtain back on how colleges actually do business. (Yes, business.) Why are the list prices so high? How much do they discount, and for whom? Can it really be that there are billions of dollars in private equity money at work to gather data on teenagers and feed algorithms that spit out “presidential scholarship” offers. (Yes, again.) Armed with this empowering insight, parents will be able to make better decisions about what they should pay for college.
Lieber is the author of The Price You Pay for College — An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make, which was been named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, a New York Times best seller, and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
