Getting Ready to Pay for College: What Students and Their Parents Know About the Cost of College Tuition and What They Are Doing to Find Out

Title:	Getting Ready to Pay for College: What Students and Their Parents Know About the Cost of College Tuition and What They Are Doing to Find Out
Description:	This report uses data from the Parent and Youth Surveys of the 1999 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES: 1999) to investigate how much college bound 6th- through 12th-grade students know about the cost of attending college, and the relationships between their knowledge of college costs and how they go about preparing for college. Apart from looking at estimates provided by these students for how much they think college will cost, the report also provides information about discussions students had with parents or teachers/counselors to learn about college costs and financial aid availability, and academic requirements of attending college. In addition, the report examines what parents of these students know about college costs, whether they had started to save for their children’s education, what they had done to gather information on financial aid, and whether they knew about various tax credits to help offset costs.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (704KB)
Cover Date:	September 2003
Web Release:	September 30, 2003
Print Release:	October 26, 2003
Publication #:	NCES 2003030 Order Your Free Copy Now From Ed Pubs General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Laura J. Horn and Xianglei Chen, MPR Associates, Inc. & Chris Chapman, National Center for Education Statistics
Type of Product:	Statistical Analysis Report
Survey/Program Areas:	Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) National Household Education Survey (NHES)
Keywords:	Cost of Higher Education Parental Involvement in Education Postsecondary Education • finance
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Statistical Analysis Report, please contact: Chris Chapman.