Famous People went to college too, over on College Crunch they have come up with a list of famous people and highlighted what colleges they went too. What is even cooler is these archaic photos they seemingly dropped all over the page. Where they found that aged photo of Steve Jobs is beyond me but its rather humorous. Imagine this could be you in a few years. Famous and on someones list. Although I doubt it unless you find your college pretty quickly.

Do celebrities influence your college selection choice? I am sure they do if they are athletes. I can imagine an athlete may want to follow in the footsteps of an idol. But what about normal folks. Do we attend the school that our fathers attended because we look up to them, or do we come to our own conclusion?

Have you heard of Sallie Mae? Sallie Mae was started in 1972 as a Government Sponsored Entity however by 2004 it has been privatized and is now a totally independent entity and its on the stock market but appears to be doing just fine even surrounded by all the chaos that has struck the rest of the economy.

Sallie Mae®, the nation’s leading provider of student loans and administrator of college savings plans, has helped millions of Americans achieve their dream of a higher education. The company primarily provides federal and private student loans for undergraduate and graduate students and their parents.

Sallie Mae is going strong and should be the first place you turn when looking to build your finacial aid packages for college or graduate school. Sallie Mae is also the parent company of Upromise a college savings program you probably have seen all around the internet and in financial aid informational packages.

The economic crisis isn’t just shrinking retirement funds. Many families are watching the money they put away for their children’s college tuition dissipate.

Let your financial aid officer know what your specific situation is. If it’s changed significantly, you may be eligible for more aid than you were in the past. A drastic loss of income in the family can change your eligibility for financial aid.

One thing I would strongly recommend is setting up a secondary savings fund for misc. college expenses that before you were not saving for. Such things as food,and other expenses that maybe you werent planning on setting aside. With the rising cost of college and economic hard times it can never be enough to set aside additional savings.

You can also use services like BillShrink, a service that will help you save money on common things like cell phone plans. Take the money you save from Bill Shrink and push it into a savings account for future expenses and you will be much better prepared for educational expenses in the future.

I just stumbled upon a website that looks pretty darn interesting and will definetly appeal to people who read this website. It is called Unigo.com.

Unigo appears to combing social networking, with the college selection process, including search, and user generated reviews. It looks like it could be a pretty helpful site if it gains transaction by college students and high schoolers alike.

Unigo is a new platform for college students to share reviews, photos, videos, documents, and more with students on their campus and across the country.

It’s also the best place for high school students to find out what life is really like at America’s colleges, and to make friends to help them find the school that’s right for them.

Unigo is the result of a nationwide grassroots movement to get the truth out about college life, and it’s growing bigger every day. Want to join?

Really enjoying a new website entitled College Crunch, we link to it in our sidebar over there. It basically covers College Stuff of all kinds. They have 10 pieces of technology that are must have for college students.

I personally would have thrown in a PSP, as these things are wicked cool and can be snuck into boring lectures to occupy your time.

I am doing some research among high schoolers and mostly just trying to find out what people are looking for in a college. i am finding that it has less to do with location and more to do educational goals.

In a tough economic time people are looking to specialize a lot more. When looking for colleges people are looking at these things which I find really interesting.

1. Availability of Financial Aid

2. Educational Programs

3. Location and Nightlife

Something I hadn’t considered is how the economy will effect high schoolers going to college. If College Financial Aid dries up then we can expect to see a lot of folks not attending college and attending more trade schools, and thus seeing a decline in programs at big schools as well.