Education Next – Frederick Hess
“TuitionFit is an online platform that we launched in January 2019 with the goal of empowering the public to take back some control over college pricing. Students share financial-aid award letters, making it possible to create a central data resource that lets us crowdsource a customizable “Kelley Blue Book” for actual college prices. Students share basic academic and financial-need data—SAT or ACT score, high school GPA, and Expected Family Contribution from completing the FAFSA—which allows us to organize the results so that any student can see the actual prices that colleges are offering students just like them. As a result, the public can make far more informed choices and maybe start to impact college prices the way they can in a normal marketplace.” (more)