So much depends on your credit score. Credit scores are used by lenders like banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, and credit unions. In addition to those, credit scores are
We’ve been seeing a dangerous trend. Students entering college are completely ignoring their impending student loan debt. They believe the proposals of several presidential candidates in past elections will actually
If you have seen my college presentations, you know I start a lot of my talks with two questions…
1.How many of you are concerned about your child getting into their dream school?
2.If they get in, how many of you are concerned about how to pay for it?
The answers are always the same — 100% of you say yes!
If you’re a fan of “The Middle” TV show like we are, you may have seen this clip when Sue receives the letter about her college financial aid package. She wonders how can she survive college if she can’t even understand her letter? — a valid question.
Updated January 2022. We hear the question all the time: “Where can I find scholarships for my child?” Typically, when clients ask this, we will direct them to a few
Attending college in a foreign country will appeal to many college-bound students. The architecture, the history, and the learning experience of traveling is priceless. Should families hesitate and discourage studying
Updated January 2021. Did you have an allowance when you were a kid? Maybe some change or a few dollars if you did your chores? Were you the kid who
“Wealthy”… “Financially successful”… Most people don’t walk around saying “I’m so wealthy!”, except for maybe Thurston Howell III on Gilligan’s Island.
We don’t perceive ourselves as being wealthy. But how are those words defined when we are talking about paying for college and financial aid? You may be surprised that how you define wealthy is not the same as how the federal government defines wealthy. What can you do to make college more affordable if it turns out you are deemed to be “wealthy”?
Do money worries keep you up at night? The truth is, paying for college can be scary stuff. It can cause nightmares for parents. As financial planners who help college-bound
Updated October 2021. If we compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions we hear from our clients, one of the top among them would be: Do all colleges
Consider this: The Oxford Dictionary defines “paradox” in part as “a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems
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