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Beyond The School Desk: Beware of Misleading Financial Aid Letters
How to see if you are getting the best financial aid package. Great blog explaining what the award letters are really telling you and what information they are leaving out.
Working in the Career Resource Center at Montville High School, I se a lot of information that crosses my desk or pops up in my email. This email from The College Solution caught my attention right away.
Lynn O'Shaughnessy, Blogger l Author l Speaker l Consultant, writes timely posts on information to assist parents and students in the college search. Her latest blog is perfect for this time as students are now getting information back from colleges and trying to make a decision as to where they will attend this coming fall.
If you can make some time to visit her links below – it will be well worth it. Every bit of information you can gather to help you make the right choice “financially” of where to attend can save you big time upon graduating.
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BEWARE OF MISLEADING FINANCIAL AID LETTERS
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This is the time of year when high school seniors are nervously opening up their financial aid letters. Unfortunately, parents find most financial aid awards confusing and that's a tragedy since tens of thousands of dollars or more can be at stake.
Some colleges make their award letters difficult to decipher. After all, if families knew how they were being shortchanged financially, they might pick other schools. In March, I wrote three blog posts that explained how to evaluate any financial aid award.
My posts shared real copies of financial aid letters including those from George Washington U. Fordham U., University of Portland and Columbia U. Pass along these posts to your clients with teenagers so they can decrease their chances of getting snookered when they sit down with their financial aid awards.
Are These Financial Aid Letters Misleading?
An End to Bad Financial Aid Award Letters
This is a major step not only for graduating seniors but for parents as well. Don't let questions, miss/non communitcations or lack of understanding prevent you from making the right choice when selecting the write college. The name of the institition should not be the only factor you use in it's selection.
Call the institition, your high school couselor or drop me a line. We are all here to not only assist your child but the parents as well.
Till next time.
