My Comment: Here is award letter #6. Hofstra University is well known to most of you. Not a name that comes up very often here in the south but one with an impeccable reputation. This is for someone enrolling as a freshman this fall. That's a lot of money that doesn't have to be paid …
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My Comment: Here is award letter #5. I'm planning to show one of these a week for several more weeks. My idea is to build a library of examples of the kind of money there is out there for high school students and even college students who want to go to graduate school. The process …
Continue reading CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 3, 2012
My Comment: This is post #3 where I show you examples of award letters from various colleges that are representative of the award letters to students who have engaged in the process of finding extra money to help their parents pay for their college education. I encourage you to read para #3 below. Jon, to …
Continue reading CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – March 20, 2012
My Comment: Every where I turn these days there is more bad new about the cost of a college education. This article is no exception. To counter it and do my part, I've partnered with a foundation in Tucson that for the past 27 years has been solving a large part of this puzzle for …
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My Comment: Here is the second of what I plan to show you once every week. Examples of award letters from colleges and universities across the nation. Again, this is money the colleges and universities are willing to spend when they realize they are competing with other colleges and universities for any specific student to …
Continue reading CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – March 13, 2012
My Comment: The following comes courtesy of Richard M. White, a friend and attorney who is Board Certified in Wills, Trusts and Estates. He sends me ideas from The Wealth Counselor from time to time and this one about techniques to Pay for College caught my attention. Apart from the legal and accounting merits of …
You can borrow money for college, but you cannot borrow money for retirement. If you are the parent of a child who has yet to become an adult, then you probably understand the pressure that surrounds the effort to graduate from high school, go to college and become a self-sufficient adult. In our society, getting …
My Comment: My goals for 2012 include a major effort to first identify and then help high school students and their parents find the necessary funds to pay for a college education. With college costs increasing at an alarming rate, parents are often forced to invade their retirement funds to help pay for college. College …
A key element of my practice as a financial planner and investment advisor is a strategy to help parents and their children deal with the cost of a college education. In addition to this article, click on this CollegeMoneyNow link and find a 10 minute presentation I created to help you understand there is an …
Last evening I was invited to attend an event at Buchholz High School. The occasion was the Installation of Officers and Member Induction to the Academy of Entrepreneurship, a magnet program within the Alachua County District School system. In addition, new officers were presented for those students involved with DECA. For those of you unfamiliar …
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