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Apple’s Lessons for Higher Ed Inequality
By Ben Castleman Saul Schwartz and Sandy Baum
Insider Higher Education
April 9, 2015

mentions College Navigator as an important but little-known source of information about U.S. colleges. One can search for schools by state, miles from zip code, programs/majors, degrees offered, public or private, tuition, size, SAT and ACT percentiles, and other criteria. My 7th grader is starting to ask about colleges, and I will mention this site to him. Even explaining to him what the search criteria mean may be educational.