Student Success Resources: Financial Aid

To properly manage college costs, you need to understand the real price tag of a higher education, including hidden fees that surprise students after they enroll in a college or university. College Secrets reveals the true costs of earning a college degree - and then provides hundreds of money-saving ideas to help students and parents reduce or eliminate these expenses.

This guide to financing higher education is the only resource students need to fund their pursuit of knowledge. Balancing detailed explanations with real-life examples and practical resources, the featured topics include finding and winning scholarships, requesting a reassessment from colleges for more financial aid, maximizing assistance from state and federal governments, taking advantage of educational tax breaks, and benefiting from government-subsidized student loans.

Adults can find the means to go back to school despite the pressures of work, family, and a mortgage with this guide to funding continued education. With expanded information on online and distance learning and part-time classes and new financial aid, loan, and scholarship opportunities, this updated resource teaches adult students how to find and win scholarships designed especially for them, obtain financial support from employers, get financial aid for distance learning, receive larger financial aid packages, take advantage of educational tax breaks, trade tuition costs for volunteer service, and cancel education debts with loan forgiveness programs. Twenty firsthand anecdotes inspire adult students with creative and unusual ways to pay for their education.

College Without Student Loans will teach you the strategies that every student can follow, but are not commonly taught in our high schools. Colleges would rather you not know this simple 4-Step methodology which is SAFE, regardless of income. You do not have to be another statistic for Federal government loan program or be saddled with long-term monthly payments to Uncle Sam. When you follow the SAFE steps your results will be dramatic and predictable, positioning you for a productive, meaningful and happier life.

This step-by-step guide includes actionable tips to save on education costs and the many living expenses--room, board, books, activities--that apply to the first year and beyond. Leah Ingram--a money-saving expert and parent of two college students--reveals the "insider tricks" to pay for college, including: How to find bona fide scholarships, not spam and scams.Where parents can work to receive tuition benefits. The pros and cons of earning college credits before graduating high school. Which schools give out the most merit aid, even if you're not a rocket scientist. Paying for college just got a lot easier for millions of families!

Explains college costs and describes practical steps middle and high school students can take to begin preparing themselves for future challenges. It discusses choosing among different types of colleges and vocational schools, explains what s involved in applying for and receiving federal financial aid, and describes other sources of aid.