10 Financial Aid Mistakes to Avoid
Financial Aid Workshop | SAT / ACT Prep
If you're frustrated that nobody at your high school has offered to help you figure out how to "work" the system to get financial aid and scholarships, I have news for you:
It's not your fault.
It's weird when you think about it - college is SO freakin' expensive, and you've heard that there's money "out there."
You know, like those scholarships for left-handed oboists of Viking descent with spastic colons.
But your guidance counselor, CPA or Financial Guy is clueless about how it works.
I'm running a new free online financial aid class for you tomorrow, but today I want to talk about mistakes I'll help you avoid when you join us.
There are two kinds of mistakes: those of commission, and those of omission.
Commission means things like inputting the wrong information into one or more financial aid applications.
This is easier to do than you might think. For example, the CSS Profile is more than 200 nitpicky, complicated questions. Your eyes can get bleary after a few hours wrestling with that bear.
Mistakes of omission are a little more subtle, but equally deadly, if not worse. Examples include failing to learn strategies to qualify for more aid by reading the directions to the applications, or overlooking deadlines for submission.
If you want to avoid the deadliest, most money-losingliest errors that families commit in the financial aid process, I recommend that you attend our upcoming workshop, tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18. Here are the details:
<<<<< FINANCIAL AID WORKSHOP >>>>>>>>
There's no charge to attend and nothing to purchase.
Topics include:
*How to "hide" your money from the financial aid office, legally and ethically
*How to negotiate a scholarship or financial aid award
*How high income and ultra affluent families can qualify for tuition discounts of 25%, 33% or even 56.1%, guilt-free
*10 deadly, self-inflicted financial aid mistakes overwhelmed families make before they apply to college (and how to avoid them)
*The disappointing state of last year's "Simplified" (HAH!) FAFSA rollout and now to cope with more delays and mistakes that seem inevitable this year
*Special tips for business owners and other self-employed families
*The New Rules about divorced families
*More: we'll block out time for Q&A so that you can get your questions answered:
Register here:
Hope to see you in class!
- Andy "Mistake Breaker" Lockwood
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P.P.S. There's nothing to buy on the webinar but attendees will receive a special "scholarship" that can be applied toward our financial aid consulting and forms preparation service. Discussed only at the end of the class, you get a hall pass to leave any time you want :)