In a recent review of 50 randomly selected college price calculators, the nonprofit organization found that many of these tools were hard to find, difficult to understand and essentially worthless to use.
Though acknowledging that there were some exceptional sites — among them Grinnell College in Iowa and Millikin University in Illinois — researcher and report author Diane Cheng said most calculators were "buried on college websites, had dozens of daunting questions or generated estimates that were confusing, misleading or unnecessarily out-of-date."
