Local College Planning Workshop Tonight
Announcement for local parents of college bound teens:
I'm doing a free college planning "secrets" workshop tonight at the Manhasset Public Library, 7pm, and I just learned that they have 20 empty seats with your name on them!
That's sorta kinda what we found out, last minute. Point is, if you have any of the following questions, and you're free at 7pm tonight, we would love you to stop by:
- Admissions "Secrets": The truth about what it takes to get into a competitive college today (including non politically correct, but true, factors)
- The FAFSApocalypse: What the bejeezus is happening the the FAFSA (financial aid app) and how is it impacting college-bound families today
- Financial Aid Loopholes: How can Long Island families cut colleges costs -- by 56% or more -- even if they believe that there's no way on God's green Earth that they can qualify for anything...so that they can comfortably afford tuition for all of their kids without cutting back on their lifestyle or selling a vital organ
- Negotiation Tips: How a mild-mannered college advisor helped an Oyster Bay business owner negotiate an extra $30,058 from an elite private college after their so-called "final offer"*
- The College Essay: How to write a college essay so compelling that admissions officers will (practically) crawl naked over broken glass to admit your student
- More - including your questions, we'll have plenty of time for Q&A
Feel free to share this invite, your friends are more than welcome to come as long as we have space. Here's where to sign up:
*Oh, and it may or may not be true that the Oyster Bay man who received the above-mentioned windfall is meeting me at a local watering hole tomorrow to watch college basketball. The least he can do is pick up a round.
- Andy "Shameless" Lockwood
P.S. I read a story this morning about a couple who returned a Dr Seuss book to a different library that was checked out more than 50 years ago. The library waived the fines.
No promises that I can do the same for you tonight, but instead I will bring copies of my own book to give away, because this is a last-minute invite and I feel silly asking you at the 11th hour. :)
P.P.S. The address is 30 Onderdonk Ave, Manhasset, NY 11030, but please register first to make sure we have room.