Share Your Experience

The Wall Street Journal has an interactive community where users can ask questions or share advice on a given topic. This week, the Journal Community is discussing the best way to pay for college. Feel free to share your tips here on SCHEV’s blog, or visit the WSJ website to see what their readers have to [...]

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Virginia Prepaid Tuition Plan Offers Open Enrollment

Beginning December 1, the Virginia Prepaid Education Program (known as VPEP) is offering open enrollment for new participants. The enrollment period, which lasts through March 31, 2010, means that VPEP contracts are available for newborns through 9th-graders, as long as the child or the account owner is a Virginia resident at the time the contract [...]

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Fear the Bookstore No More

College students spend between $700 and $1,000 on new and used textbooks each year, according to the Student Public Interest Research Groups. If you are one of the many students looking for ways to economize on textbooks this year, we have good news. The college textbook market, which has long been derided for producing expensive [...]

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