Several officials advise setting up a separate e-mail account for corresponding with colleges, checking it frequently and not changing it.
As soon as you've picked your college, check to make sure your incoming freshman has all the cables or Wi-Fi passwords he or she needs, so your son or daughter won't struggle to get online that first night away from home.
For more info on managing credit cards in college, check out my appearance on ABC News from yesterday.
If you are in college, check your university library to ask if they have a partnership with JSTOR and how you can access it.
Also, if you live near a college, check campus bulletin boards near the end of semesters for ads from students looking to unload supplies as they leave town.
Future news: Not only does some great new news site have pithy writers who put the big stories of the day into snark-filled context that represents the political side that you believe in, but it has fact-checkers: two recent college grads from Harvard, who did nothing but read big thick books all through college, checking stories to make sure the facts are in their purest form.
The policy requires colleges to check the legal residency of all applicants and prohibits illegal immigrants from enrolling at any college with a selective admissions process.
Below, see the top 10 best-value private colleges, and check out USA Today for an interactive version of the list that includes the rest of the colleges ranked.
As we prepare the next Guardian University Guide, we invite universities and colleges to check that we are on the right track when it comes to matching subjects with cost centres and Jacs codes – the subject categories used by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa).
For more college rankings, check out our big news page here.
For more information on how to approach future college fairs, check out College Essay Advisor's 5 Best Questions to Ask at a College Fair.
