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Your October College Prep Guide (opens the original)
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First-quarter grades are landing for real this month, not as a progress report but as an actual grade, and that’s the first honest read most families get on whether September’s course load was the right call. Seniors are past the point where a supplemental essay can wait for a rainy weekend, since Nov. 1 is three weeks out by the time this publishes. The PSAT sits inside a school-administered window this month rather than a single national date, and financial aid season opens for filing today, a
Cornell Asked Whether College Is Still Worth It (opens the original)
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Cornell University spent a year asking itself the question most families eventually ask when the tuition bill arrives. On Sept. 22, it published the answer in a 200-plus-page report.Provost Kavita Bala convened the 18-member Committee on the Future of the American University in October 2025, and it<a href="https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2026/09/22/cornel
The 2027-28 FAFSA Is Already Open (opens the original)
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The 2027-28 FAFSA form is open right now, no beta sign-up required, ahead of its own Oct. 1 target for the second year running. It’s the form for any student starting college next fall, whether that’s a four-year school, a two-year program or a trade school, and it only applies to U.S. citizens and green card holders. If that’s your kid, file it, even if you’re confident your family won’t qualify for aid. It doesn’t hurt, and there’s a first-come, first-served element to a lot of the money attac
Congress Wants a Say in How AI Grades Applicants (opens the original)
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Congress doesn’t have a great track record moving quickly on anything involving technology, and AI in higher education has mostly played out the same way so far: college by college, department by department, with Washington watching from the sidelines.U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, an Oregon Democrat, plans to introduce a bill next week called the Artificial Intelligence Education and Workforce Readiness Act. It would require AI risk assessments at federally funded colleges and bar the use of
A 210 Qualifies for National Merit in Most States, Not in New Jersey (opens the original)
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Two different questions get tangled in October: what a composite PSAT score means, and what National Merit pays out if a student qualifies. They deserve separate answers, so here's the score first and the scholarship second.What the PSAT MeasuresSomewhere between Oct. 1 and Oct. 30, your junior will sit down for the PSAT, or more precisely the PSAT/NMSQT, the version 11th graders take that doubles as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. There are earlier versions for 8th, 9th
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