Find Affordable Colleges That Are a Great Fit: Advanced Strategies for Families and Counselors

10 Video Lessons

Watch the lessons on your own.
 
850+ Full-Tuition Merit Scholarships

Access a database of over 850 full-tuition institutional merit scholarships, some of which also cover room and board.

Afford College 

Remove the anxiety around helping your student find the right college at the right price. This course saves time by providing the tools you need and how to use them so you don’t have to sift through the Internet.
 
Learn a unique plan of attack designed to combat the insane cost of higher education so your student can avoid massive loans.  Eliminate unnecessary campus visits.  Your student won’t need to bother applying to colleges the family can’t afford.
 
Feel Good about Making the Right College Choices
 
Discover schools that you might not have previously considered. Many of these colleges want to recruit students by offering scholarships. Employing the advanced strategies in this course will result in informed choices that make for happy students and even happier parents and guardians.
 
This course guides you in doing research to find colleges that are a strong financial fit and also a good match.  The time you and your student devote to doing the research will literally pay off. Let’s say you take a total of 10 hours to do the research, and it saves you $50,000 in the cost of attendance. That’s like you made $5,000 per hour. You’ll have $50,000 more to provide for your student, put into your retirement fund, or use in another way.
 
Who This is For
 
Parents and guardians who may be considered too affluent for need-based aid but cannot easily afford the insane cost of college
 
Families who may qualify for need-based aid but still need help finding affordable college that meet their student’s needs
 
School counselors and independent college counselors who want to help their students tackle paying for college and identifying a good fit 

Contents

Chapter 1: You Can Make College Affordable

Chapter 2: Who Gets Money from Elite Colleges

Chapter 3: It Pays to Be in the Top 25 Percent

Chapter 4: Shop for Colleges According to Average Net Cost

Chapter 5: Estimate the Cost of a College Before Applying

Chapter 6: Selecting High Quality Colleges

Chapter 7: Using College Scorecard to Make Informed Decisions

Chapter 8: College Scorecard Example

Chapter 9: Advanced System for Building a College List

Chapter 10: Full-Tuition Institutional Merit Scholarships, video plus database of 850+ full-tuition merit scholarships

Technical Requirements

The videos are .mv4 files.  It's recommended that you use a multimedia player, e.g., VLC, to view the videos.

The database of full-tuition scholarships is an .xlsx file.  Use Microsoft Excel, Mac Numbers, or a free spreadsheet application offered by, e.g., OpenOffice or Google Drive.