On the face of it, I understand why families would be taken in by the idea of the newly required Net Price Calculator (NPC), says Helen Nunn, director of financial aid at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania for the Washington Post. Anything that could help you narrow your list of schools to those you can afford, and could make it simple to get an answer to that question, would be a welcome tool. And anything I can do on the Internet without interacting with pesky people and their prying questions would be a relief, too. Right? Well, maybe . . . and maybe not…
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U.S. colleges seek foreign students for intellectual stimulus, bottom line
As vistas of suburban grocery stores gave way to exurban mansions and then hay farms during a ride to the University of Virginia early one summer morning, George Wu sat on a plush bus seat and faced two dozen students aboard the U-Va. Express, reports the Washington Post. Nearly all were Chinese, and hardly any had set foot in Virginia before their plane landed at Dulles International Airport a few hours earlier. Wu knew they were nervous. Three years ago, he was in their place—a teenager far from home, unsure of his English, headed to the school in Charlottesville…
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