A couple things of note that are worth paying attention to.
Jon Boeckenstedt published an analysis of discount rates at colleges and its well worth reading and playing with. If you’re unfamiliar with the term discount rate, it captures aid that isn’t new money (merit aid that is essentially discounting, grants that are discounts, basically all the things that are coupons). Jon breaks it down nicely. And you can look up individual colleges. As you can see from the screenshot below, you can rollover a university and see their discount rate and even the percent of full pay (Damn Georgetown . . . I guess money means merit). Click here to check it out.
Also, I wrote a thing. I looked at the latest IPEDS data (government reporting of educational statistics), which is for the 2022 enrolling class of college students, to see trends in how many students are enrolling without test scores. The big take away is lots of kids are enrolling without test scores, but I’m not revising my previous advice on should you test. Ask the 3 questions: Should my child prep? Should my child test? Should my child submit? The screenshot below shows one of the tables in the post. As you can see the number of students ENROLLING (not applying) with scores has dropped precipitously since 2018. Click this link to see the full post.
Bellowings 