How to unravel the maze of college and financial aid web sites and show you in a concise, step-by-step manner how even a person with no savings, no stocks, no bonds, a large mortgage and large credit card debt can send his child to college with almost no money.
How college financial aid offices actually determine what federal aid (college Pell grants, Stafford and Perkins loans etc.), and state grants will be given out to potential students so you will know in advance how to prepare yourself to receive the maximum amount for your child's college education.
Dispel the myth that schools are 'need blind' and provide, in their own words, how university administrators discriminate against early admission students looking for college financial aid, including free grants and scholarships and college grants for minority students.
Provide you with the actual financial aid offers, that Barry's daughter received as a high school senior in the spring of 2007, with college financial aid packages that were significantly different; even though the schools looked at the same financial information, and tell you why they're different.
Provide you with all the subsequent actual financial aid packages, that Barry's daughter received as she went through four years of college including the one she just received for her 2010 - 2011 fall senior semester.
Tell you how Stafford and Perkins loans that you've received can be forgiven (canceled) years after you've received them.
Direct you to so many college scholarship programs that your head will spin. You'll be taken to college scholarship application sites for every conceivable area you can imagine. College athletic scholarships, and those for academics, special needs and college scholarship applications for every conceivable religion.
You'll also be directed to college grants and scholarship search engines that will e-mail you when new college scholarship applications become available and which ones are nearing their expiration dates so you can quickly apply.
I will provide you with the most up to date financial aid packages that each branch of our armed forces provides for our soldiers including the post 9/11 GI Bill and the Montgomery Bill.
I will tell you 6 financial aid myths that are commonly accepted as fact and will completely change the way you think about preparing your finances for your child's education.
I will tell you why a scholarship for college students doesn't necessarily place money into the students lap. Many colleges make them disappear, which is why grants for college education funding is preferred.
