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The most complete and up-to-date financial aid guide available.

The College Board College Cost and Financial Aid Handbook 2005 provides easy-to-understand answers for all the questions students and parents have about financing a college degree.This time-saving and stress-relieving guide provides the facts and figures needed to calculate the true costs, after factoring in financial aid, at over 3,000 four- and two-year colleges.Entries for each college include itemized tuition and fee information; itemized charts of all student expenses; and payment plan information.Also includes useful indexes, articles on the financial aid process, and worksheets
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This book will help guide parents through the maze of college financial aid and college funding, and help them to reduce their out of pocket costs for college. ... Read more

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"Money Is Tight, Your Kids Are Going To College & You Just Don't Know HOW You Will Find The Money To Fund Those College Fees! Think Again, Help Is At Hand!"

"Financial Help Is Available, But You Need To KnowWhere To Begin!"

Dear Friend,

Have you been wondering how you are going to be able to afford to send your kids to college? You are not alone. Or perhaps you want to return to college or enter college but do not think it is possible because you don't have the money. Think again.

A college education is necessary today if you are going to get a decent job. But not everyone has the money to shell out for an expensive education. But that doesn't mean that you have to give up on your dream of sending your kids to college or going to college yourself. You can make it happen! And in some cases, you can get your kids to college without it even costing you a dime!

Sound Too Good To Be True - It's Not - And The Information That You Need Is Right Here!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the information you need about where to get financial aid for college in one place? Well, now you can have it in this book "Student Loans 101."

This book answers all of your questions about student loans, how to get them and everything else that you ever wanted to know about getting financial aid for college. We will even tell you how you can get a grant where it costs you NOTHING to attend school!

Introducing:

Student Loans 101

Here is what you will learn inside this guide.

The way you can go to college regardless of your financial status
How to find the right loan for you and how you can pay it back
How you can get your student loan forgiven
How to get a grant that offers to pay your way through college
The difference between college and federal aid
And a lot more!

It is so frustrating to read the advice from one webpage only to find out it is contradicted on another. Give up those endless hours of research and reading because there is a one stop, tell-all source that will give you the information you need to tell you everything you need to know about financial aid for college in "Student Loan 101."

In a world of financial difficulties, the last thing you want to worry about right now is the amount of money needed to fund your child through college!

You're not the only one who desperately seeks some kind of financial help right now, with bills, the price of gas and everything else going through the roof YOU need a concise and straight to the point eBook to point you in the right direction to help you fund those college fees!

This all-inclusive guide will explain, in simplified terms, all the questions that have eluded you in your internet searches or textbooks on the subject. The information presented is the newest available from those who are familiar with all aspects of college financial aid.


Just look at the table of contents that are included in Student Loans 101:



Chapter 1 – Introduction To Student Loans
Chapter 2 – How To Get The Most Financial Aid Possible
Chapter 3 – FASFA
Chapter 4 – Loans For Parents
Chapter 5 – Private Loans
Chapter 6 – Consolidating Student Loans

Chapter 7 – What Happens If I Default?

Chapter 8 – When Loans Can Be Forgiven

Chapter 9 – What Is The Ombudsman

Chapter 10 – Can You Get Student Loans For Homeschooling?

Chapter 11 – What Are Grants?

Chapter 12 – Federal Aid

Chapter 13 – College Based Aid

Chapter 14 – Choosing The Right College

Chapter 15 – Distance Learning



You get 15 jam-packed chapters, full of facts and tips to help you on your way to financing those crazy college fees!
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Everything you need to know to minimize the costs of college

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Never underestimate Financial Aid
Students do not underestimate the power of earning financial aid. Besides they are the largest contibuters to colleges. This book will show you how to get the max amount of money you can get from the government. However, if you are looking for others ways besides financial aid I sugguest you look at www.earncollegecash.com for alternative methods to financing your college career.

By Far The Best Book About Financial Aid Out There
15 years ago, I graduated from an elite private university by working full-time as a student and getting as much financial aid as possible every step along the way. Since then, I have helped several younger siblings to do the same, and I have prepared to send my own kids to college.

Through it all, I have read many books -- good and bad -- that came out regarding how and where to find support to attend college, and I can say with total confidence that this is BY FAR the best book that ever has been written on the topic.

The content speaks for itself: deeply researched and simulatenously very practical, with dozens of very important tips, available nowhere else, for maximizing the amount of aid that one is offered. And the author's credentials are unrivaled, having held a major post in the Department of Education which oversees most federal student assistance. President Clinton felt comfortable enough with the book to provide a forward, not just a blurb.

Is this the easiest book about financial aid to read? Well, it's not at all hard to read, but it isn't simplistic; it doesn't pretend that there are just 1 or 2 things that one must do to maximize one's aid awards. But the fact is that applying for and doling out financial aid is an exceedingly complicated enterprise, and by shining a light on this complexity and providing clear paths through the process, this book does applicants for student assistance a tremendous favor.

Like the reviewer before me, I was motivated to write this analysis after seeing that someone earlier had ranked the book with only 4 stars. In my opinion, it should get 6 (unfortunately, 5 is the maximum)!

I very strongly recommend this book to any student or parent who needs to get the maximum student aid award possible.

Best source for covering the in's and out's of financial aid
My job is helping people find ways to send their kid's to college without bankrupting themselves.This book by far is the best guide to the financial aid process available.

Don't let the anecdotal experiences of the guy you work with disuade you, there is a lot of help out there and this book will give a leg up on finding it.

As I tell my clients, the more you know about the rules of the college funding game, the more money you will save.So get this book and save some money.

Now if they only wrote it with a good index.

Absolutely worthless for independent students.
This book should be entitled "Paying For Your Child's College Without Going Broke". It contains almost no information for one who is trying to pay their own way through college. In fact the information in this book is so insular, I'm led to believe that unless you're a clone copy of the author, you won't find any relevant information in this book whatsoever. This is a throwaway piece of tripe intended to capitalize on peoples' apprehension of college costs. There is nothing here you won't find elsewhere on the net.

Be wary of blanket assertions about the availability of aid!
Widely quoted on the Web is the assertion from this book that "...almost every family now qualifies for some form of assistance. Many parents don't believe that a family that makes $75,000+ a year, owns its home, and holds substantial assets could receive financial aid. These days, that family--provided it is presented in the right light--almost certainly does."

Financial advice columnist Kenneth Hooker recently wrote the same thing:
"You can take some comfort in the fact that buying a college education has become a good deal like buying a new car -- virtually nobody pays the sticker price. There are a wide variety of financial aid programs available, both through the government and through the schools themselves, and the real costs are likely to be dramatically lower than the figures supplied ...."

As the completely middle-class, full-tuition-paying parent of a child at an Ivy League college, I feel like a total chump when I read this stuff.

Well, maybe I have missed something in all of my researches and walk-throughs with family contribution calculators, but I'm not sure.

Since there has been such a marked reduction, even disappearance of merit scholarships, and almost everything now is needs-based, parents should know that if your child applies to a private school that includes home equity in its EFC (as many now do, maybe most), and
(a) if your debt (mortgage and home loans) is not huge, and/or
(b) if you make a decent salary, and/or
(c) if you have saved and invested over the years and now have a moderate portfolio (however much it's down from 1-2 years ago),

then you almost certainly are NOT going to qualify for any financial aid whatsoever from any number of competitive private schools. Loans, sure. Aid, most likely no.

So far as I can determine, you are expected to take out a home-equity loan (if your house debt is low enough) and pay the full fare. And/or sell some of those "substantial assets."

I am not saying this is wrong, or even unfair for those of us who are comfortably middle-class. But unless I have made some major omissions, similar parents should not be misled by the broad promises and assertions by these college-financing "experts." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from University Business, published by Professional Media Group LLC on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1118 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How Pell changes will affect your students: opponents fear grant eligibility changes will ultimately hurt colleges and universities.(Financial Aid)
Author: Elizabeth Guerard
Publication: University Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Professional Media Group LLC
Volume: 8Issue: 2Page: 27(2)

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Getting In: The Zinch Guide to College Admissions & Financial Aid in the Digital Age is a college admissions how-to book written by top authors who have an extensive outreach to the college admission community and who have a connection to Zinch.com, which is the largest online social network connecting college applicants with colleges; students create a “professional” profile and get matched to schools and scholarships.

• Where to Go
• How to Get In
• How to Pay for It

It does so through knowledgeable insights, clear explanations and practical advice. Getting In will take each of these approaches to a new level in utility by combining online resources, interactive exercises, and practical tools in a way never before achieved in a college admission guide book. 

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This best-selling college financial aid guide now includes software with electronic worksheets

The College Costs and Financial Aid Handbook 2000 provides easy-to-use worksheets, in print form and on disk, for estimating the expected family contribution to college costs based on both federal and institutional methods. The comprehensive database gives families itemized facts and figures on undergraduate costs and college-based scholarship opportunities at more than 3,100 colleges, including tuition, fees, room and board charges, out-of-state costs at public institutions, financial aid application deadlines, and much more. Geared to families at all income levels, it offers the information they need about college costs and how financial aid can help to pay them. ... Read more

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Every High School should have a copy of it.
I am an international student and much needed a financial aid to meet my college costs for studing in USA. This book guided me through the whole process as how and where to obtain a possible aid.It tells about thefinancialaid package of each and every college and all that needed toestimate your college costs.Another book of the same kind helpful to highschool seniors is THE COLLEGE BOARD THE SCHOLARSHIP HANDBOOK 2000. I likeboth of the books and suggest that every high school should have a copy ofthem If you also want to search for an aid in the easiest possible way usethis book Thank you COLLEGE BOARD ... Read more

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Financial Aid for College, educational funding for furthering youreducation, should not be hard to come by and usually comes in a variety of ways. It may include some, any or all of the following: Federally funded campus employment through the collegefinancial aid office, based on financial need and at minimumwage. Grants: "Free" money that the student does not have to payback. Loans: Money that has to be repaid, usually with a low interest rate and deferred payment until after the student graduates. Scholarships: Merit awards that do not have to be repaid. There are also tuition payment plans and commercial financialinstruments to consider as part of this equation, saving and/orborrowing the money, benefactors, private and public financingoptions. ... Read more

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The book was not as useful as I thought it would be. the book does have some well written information about financial aide, but 80% of the book is usually writing fluff. I would not recommend buying this book.

Very Informative
This is a very nice and informative book. I got lot of information. Good to have this book to get the info. regarding the financial aid. ... Read more

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The most complete and up-to-date financial aid guide available.

The College Board College Cost & Financial Aid Handbook 2003 provides all the answers for the questions students and parents have about financing a college degree in easy-to-understand language. This timesaving and stress-relieving guide provides the facts and figures needed to calculate the true costs, after factoring in financial aid, at over 2,700 four-year and two-year colleges. It includes itemized tuition and fee information; itemized charts of all student expenses; payment plan information; indexes of colleges offering merit, academic, and athletic scholarships; and much more!
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This bestselling college financial aid guide now includes Windows software with electronic worksheets. ... Read more

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The Paths to Success: College Admissions and Financial Aid Program workbook and DVD was created to help parents and future college bound students learn the basic requirements for admissions into a community college, the California State University system, the University of California school system, and private colleges or universities. The program covers the art of applying and explains; what is financial aid and how students can obtain money for college. The program is a greatsupplemental tool for school districts, teachers, guidance and/or career counselors. The program helps students make smart class choices, promotes extracurricular activities, and community involvement. The students that participate in the program will have an advantage: the tools and knowledge necessary to graduate from high school and be the best candidates for admissions to a college or university of their choice. ... Read more

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A Mostly Thorough Guide to Costs and Financial Aid
This thick handbook appears to include nearly every college and university in the US. Most listings provide actual published costs to attend the schools and very helpful information regarding the ave. $'s schools offer for need and non-need based aid.The book also provides a guide to the % of total average costs these aid packages cover.

While most schools we reviewed in the handbook had all the information in each category, some did not making it difficult to compare equally each schools financial aid packages. You may , therefore, have to contact a school directly and hope they will "fill in the gaps".

Overall this book is a very useful "bible" for comparing the "generosity" and specifics of colleges and university's average financial aid packages and ways to qualify for reduced tuition through IB, AP, and family, religious oremployment affiliations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from University Business, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1094 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: College goal Sunday: this annual event helps get families in shape for the college aid process.(FINANCIAL AID)
Author: Marcia Weston
Publication: University Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 8Issue: 12Page: 27(2)

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