Top 101 College Planning Twitter Accounts for Parents

Feeling a little stressed about getting your son or daughter into college? From applying for financial aid and scholarships to making lists of reach schools and fall backs, it’s easy to get swamped with information that makes it hard to find the perfect fit for your student (at the right price!). You need a plan to stay organized and informed.


In the old days, getting organized probably consisted of colored folders and some sticky notes. But now you have something better—you have Twitter. With Twitter, you can get all of the up-to-date information you need in one place. And you don't need to fly around to 101 different websites to get it.

So if you are a parent planning for college, here are the top 101 Twitter accounts you should follow. (In ranking these, we took into consideration importance, number of followers, number of tweets, and relevancy of information. Click each button to automatically follow that account.):

1. The College Board: Follow @CollegeBoard
2. Common Application: Follow @CommonApp
3. FAFSA: Follow @FAFSA
4. US Dept of Education: Follow @usedgov
5. Scholarships.com: Follow @Scholarshipscom
6. Jodi Okun: Follow @JodiOkun
7. USA TODAY College: Follow @USATODAYcollege
8. U. S. News Education: Follow @USNewsEducation
9. NYT Education Life: Follow @nytedlife
10. FastWeb Scholarships: Follow @PayingForSchool
11. NYT The Choice: Follow @nytimescollege
12. Suzanne Shaffer: Follow @SuzanneShaffer
13. The Princeton Review: Follow @ThePrincetonRev
14. Get Schooled: Follow @getschooled
15. IHEAdmissions: Follow @IHEAdmissions
16. CollegeBoundNet: Follow @CollegeBoundNet
17. Cappex.com: Follow @cappex
18. Trevor Packer: Follow @AP_Trevor
19. Juan Vasquez: Follow @FafsaHelp
20. Scholarships USA: Follow @ScholarshipsUSA
21. Zinch: Follow @Zinch
22. College Summit: Follow @CollegeSummit
23. Ashley Hill: Follow @prepforcollege
24. College Success Fdn: Follow @College_Success
25. The Education Trust: Follow @EdTrust
26. Lumina Foundation: Follow @LuminaFound
27. College Prowler: Follow @collegeprowler
28. SavingforCollege.com: Follow @saving4college
29. CollegeWeekLive: Follow @CollegeWeekLive
30. The College Guide: Follow @TheCollegeGuide
31. myFootpath: Follow @myFootpath
32. Braintrack: Follow @BrainTrack
33. Careers and Colleges: Follow @careerscolleges
34. Mark Montgomery: Follow @collegeadvice
35. Theresa Smith: Follow @CollegeChat
36. Michael Prime: Follow @collegesearch10
37. Lynne O'Shaughnessy: Follow @CollegeBlogs
38. Unigo: Follow @Unigo
39. TheCollegeGuideSite: Follow @U2College
40. Student Loan Network: Follow @studentloannet
41. My College Guide: Follow @mycollegeguide
42. MyCollegeCalendar: Follow @collegecalendar
43. College Confidential: Follow @collegeconfide
44. Smart College Visit: Follow @collegevisit
45. Scholarship America: Follow @ScholAmerica
46. College Parents: Follow @CPofAmerica
47. College Counselors: Follow @College_Experts
48. TheCollegeHelper: Follow @CollegeHelp101
49. Campus Bound: Follow @campusbound
50. CollegeWhale.com: Follow @Loans4Students
51. InsideCollege: Follow @insidecollege
52. CollegeXpress: Follow @CollegeXpress
53. Colleges-Distinction: Follow @CoDSchoolSearch
54. Nat'lCollegeAccessN: Follow @2CollegeNetwork
55. Happy Schools Blog: Follow @happyschools
56. 401Kid, Inc.: Follow @401kid
57. Michael Szarek: Follow @MichaelCCR
58. Your College Kid: Follow @YourCollegeKid
59. High School Equity: Follow @HSequity
60. My College Options: Follow @collegeoptions
61. My Big Future: Follow @MyBigFuture
62. MEFA: Follow @MEFAtweets
63. MONEY on College: Follow @Money_College
64. Noodle Education: Follow @NoodleEducation
65. Your Key to College: Follow @CollegeKey
66. US CollegeSearch: Follow @USCollegeSearch
67. Any College: Follow @AnyCollege
68. edreform: Follow @edreform
69. WelcomeToCollege.com: Follow @welcome2college
70. YouVisit: Follow @You_Visit
71. eCampus Tours: Follow @eCampusTours
72. Go See Campus: Follow @GoSeeCampus
73. myCollegeSTAT: Follow @myCollegeSTAT
74. EducationGrant.com: Follow @edu_grant
75. College Planning: Follow @OurCollegePlan
76. TICAS: Follow @TICAS_org
77. Latinos in College: Follow @latinosincolleg
78. CollegeNET: Follow @CollegeNET
79. CollegeView: Follow @CollegeView
80. Elizabeth Kraus: Follow @myUsearch
81. Application Bootcamp: Follow @AppBootCamp
82. Make College Reality: Follow @MakeCollegeReal
83. College Connection: Follow @GetCollege
84. John Carpenter: Follow @askjohnabout
85. Kiersten Murphy: Follow @collegeadvisors
86. Estrela Consulting: Follow @EstrelaConsult
87. High School Graduate: Follow @TheHSGraduate
88. CollegeMapper: Follow @CollegeMapper
89. Go Financial Aid: Follow @gofinancialaid
90. J. D. Rothman: Follow @neurotic_parent
91. Peterson's: Follow @petersons
92. NPEA: Follow @NPEdAccess
93. College Parent Central: Follow @CollParCentral
94. Story to College: Follow @StoryToCollege
95. Wise Choice: Follow @wisechoicetweet
96. The College Advocate: Follow @FirstGenCollege
97. The Collegiate: Follow @thecollegiates
98. The Alumni Factor:Follow @AlumniFactor
99. Alleyoop: Follow @Alleyoop
100. Acceptional: Follow @AcceptionalPrep
101. Plan for College: Follow @aplanforcollege

SEE ALSO: 5 Twitter Chats that Help Parents Get Ready for College

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