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College Planning Checklist for 9th & 10th Grade

9th GRADE COLLEGE PLANNING CHECKLIST Academic and Extra Curriculum Suggestions Get to know your school counselor. Plan a meeting just to introduce yourself, even though

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Must i Fill Out FAFSA?

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is required by most colleges and universities to be able to determine financial aid eligibility. It is

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Reviewing Your FAFSA Student Aid Report

You’ve submitted your FAFSA, and now what? After it’s processed, you’ll receive a FAFSA Student Aid Report (SAR). If you place an email address around

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Spending money on 4 Kids In College at the Same Time

We aren’t rich, but we are really not destitute either. We haven't much set aside attending college savings and we almost never qualified for need-based

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Purchase College Without Affecting Retirement

I awoke today deep in considered college costs and all the facets of a family's life it impacts. It hit me how much picking the

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Scholarships For top School Seniors: Facts

Is your loved ones shuffling through piles of non-public scholarship applications, hoping to cobble together some additional funding for school? If so, you're certainly not

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Find Niche and native Private Scholarships

When you are looking at finding extra funds to help pay for college, private scholarship money can easily prove useful. However it generally won’t be

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Are you able to Prevent Scholarship Displacement?

Working with families on securing scholarships, I'm always asked whether scholarship displacement can be avoided. I wish there was a monochrome answer, however, it's unfortunately

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Ways to use the FAFSA4caster

The FAFSA4caster is a free prediction tool in the U.S. Department of Education that gives families an earlier estimate of the eligibility for federal student

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Coping with Scholarship Displacement

Your student did hard both in school and in the scholarship application. You're excited that they have won some small scholarships, that you simply hope

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