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Questionable value, October 20, 2003
This review is from: Paying for College without Going Broke, 2004 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
The real value of this book appears to be its short term strategies. These are strategies one may employ when college is approaching. Its long term strategies are nothing more than what you'd find in Money Magazine or similar periodical. My advice is to wait and purchase this book until you're within five years of enrolling in college.
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Paying for College aka Surviving the FAFSA, February 26, 2006
This review is from: Paying for College without Going Broke, 2004 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
This book helped me to walk step by step through the financial aid process that colleges demand. There are forms in the back that made doing the FAFSA a lot less onerous than it seemed at first. It has areas of instruction for private as well as state funded schools. It explains what you have to tell the schools that you have financially, what you don't and why. Also is very helpful in advising you how to negotiate with the colleges after their first financial aid offer comes through. Neither of my children would have been able to attend the institutions they are currently in without the financial advise I got from this book.
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