Parents never want to let their kids down, but it can easily happen when it comes to college and financial aid. If you make bad financial assumptions and don’t do your research, you can end up ruining your child’s college dreams. That’s what happened to one family that came to me after they made some huge mistakes and learned the hard way. But here’s how you can avoid doing the same thing by taking the right steps right now.
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THCC Episode 121 – Net Price of Colleges: The Real Story
The real cost of college is almost never the price you see on school websites. To know what college will really cost your family, you need to find out the net price of schools based on your income and after all grants and scholarships are subtracted from the price. In this episode, we talk about how net price is calculated and how to find out what the average family in your income bracket has really paid at individual colleges in all 50 U.S. states. Find Out More…
TTHC35 – Making the Cut: Can Your High School Athlete Score in College? Interview with David Galehouse
David Galehouse owns Varsity Edge, a website that helps high school athletes pursue their sport in college. He himself was an athlete who went through challenges in being recruited. He was an avid golfer with some aspirations of a college scholarship, but burned out in senior year. He began to play baseball in the spring […]
TTHC34 – Financial Advice for Teens, By a Teen Interview with Eva Baker
Eva Baker’s story is especially appealing to parents and students looking at college. She is a homeschooled senior in high school and an avid blogger at the ripe old age of 18, writing the Teens Got Cents blog. Her story also serves as an example to students on how they can tap into what they […]
TTHC33 – Test Prep for a Higher Score. Interview with Lauren Gaggioli
We meet Lauren Gaggioli on the podcast today, and she is the founder and chief of Higher Scores Test Prep, which specializes in SAT/ACT tutoring. From treading the boards to tutoring Lauren’s background starts in an unlikely place – a theatre major graduating from NYU – where she realized soon that she would need to […]
TTHC 32 – Roger Whitney. Can You Plan for Retirement AND College?
Today’s episode brings Roger Whitney, “The Retirement Answer Man,” to the microphone who will be indeed answering some of our questions on retirement planning with college in sight. Roger has been a financial planner for 24 years, walking with his clients through the retirement maze. Eventually he developed a podcast and blog on the subject […]