CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 24, 2012

My Comment: Here is award letter #7. The University of Alabama is well known to all of us. This is for someone enrolling as a freshman in 2010. That’s a lot of money that doesn’t have to be paid back. Click on the image to the right to access the overview I created for CollegeMoneyNow.

CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 10, 2012

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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CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 3, 2012

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 …

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CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – March 27, 2012

My Comment: This is post #4 where I show examples of award letters from colleges. These are typical of the award letters sent to students who are members of the Neighbors Foundation. We argue that it makes more sense to use their money before you spend yours. If you know anyone in high school, or …

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CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – March 20, 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 …

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Retirement Shortfall Risk Making College Saving Tougher, Even For Affluent

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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CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week

My Comment: From time to time you've seen my posts that talk about college money. Helping high school kids and their parents find extra money to pay for a college education has become a passion of mine. I've created a Facebook page, a section here on the blog, and a short internet presentation using a …

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Paying for College

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 …

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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 …

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How to Plan for the True Cost of 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 …

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