While there's a "whole social apparatus" set up for students attending college straight out of high school – including ... the costs of going back to college go well beyond tuition, fees ...

Parents often spend hundreds of dollars each year on back-to-school clothing ... financial literacy programs to school-age children. “For kids going into middle school, there is less pressure ...

it's just going to cause issues.” Nash took notes during the meeting, then sent them to a group chat “so we can always refer back — like this is what we agreed on before,” she said.

You’re most successful when you’ve identified your reasons for going back to college ... logistical difficulty of returning to the same school where you encountered problems.