Congratulations to longtime Newton resident and Wellesley College Economics Professor (and full disclosure: my cousin) Phil Levine for his work on MyinTuition, an easy-to-use financial aid calculator that estimates the real cost of college, after financial aid. MyinTuition encourages low- and middle-income students to apply to schools that they might have rejected because they assumed they couldn’t afford the tuition. Thirty-one colleges are now participating.

Read the story in today’s Washington Post.