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...