Category: College Financial Aid
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Five Tips for Widowed Parents to Reduce College Costs
If you’ve read my blog post on how to get more college financial aid and are looking for more ideas on how to reduce the cost of college, check out these strategies for your kid: To learn more about college financial aid, read my previous blog posts: Disclaimer: I am not an expert in college…
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Ten Tips for Widowed Parents to Get More College Financial Aid
If you read my blog post on the basics of college financial aid, you learned that there are three types of financial aid: need-based aid, merit-based aid and private aid/scholarships. And then you may have learned from my blog post on the FAFSA that your Student Aid Index is calculated based on your and your…
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What Widowed Parents Need to Know about College Financial Aid: The FAFSA & CSS Profile
As I mentioned in my blog post on the basics of financial aid, I’ve been researching college costs and financial aid in case there’s something I can do now that will help get more aid when my daughter applies to college in four years. I recently read the 2024 edition of Paying for College, 2026:…
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What Widowed Parents Need to Know About College Financial Aid: The Basics
My friends with older kids are deep in the trenches of figuring out how to pay for college and fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the form used by colleges to determine how much need-based financial aid you’re eligible to receive. Although my daughter is just in eighth grade, I’ve been…