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Master Your Financial Aid Appeal in 5 Easy Steps
It’s about that time of year—when your senior is mid-way through their term—that financial aid packages come flooding into your mailbox. Seeing the raw numbers may cause a bit of panic. You remember hearing something about appealing financial aid, but where do you start? It’s a pretty straightforward process, and worth trying. Financial aid packages…
April 2017 Newsletter: Effective Financial Appeals, Weighing Costs & College Choice
April 2017 Newsletter Should You Appeal Your Aid Offer? It’s April! Congratulations to all our seniors! College acceptances and financial aid offers have finally arrived. YOU get to choose your best academic, social, and financial fit college. Parents and students sometimes ask: Can I appeal my financial award? Yes, this option exists, there is a process in…
March 2017 Newsletter: Award Letter Tips, Big Scholarships & More!
March 2017 Newsletter It’s College Acceptance Season! It’s March! I love this time of year. Every day I have the privilege to receive an email or phone call from my many excited clients as their sons and daughters receive college offers. The excitement also comes with trepidation of the impending expense for college. Colleges give you until…
A Guide to Stafford Loans
Stafford loans, repayments, need-based aid, dependent status… Do these make your head spin? College finances can be a sticky–and confusing–endeavor. Fear not: We’ll take out the scary parts of the biggest federal loan available: subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loans. Traditionally, these are two most common forms of federal student loans made available to undergraduate students. Colleges…
October 2016 Newsletter: It’s FAFSA & CSS Profile Time!
Greetings! It’s October, the NEW Financial Aid month! When it comes to financial aid articles, the FAFSA is mentioned everywhere but the CSS Profile is often left out. Many families are not aware that “… if your child is considering any of the top colleges this country is blessed with, it’s the CSS Profile aid…