Financial Aid

By Marshall Loeb, MarketWatch

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- If you're heading off to college this fall, or are a high school senior about to apply, you'll realize right away that a college education doesn't come cheap. While scholarships and grants are good ways to get a break on tuition, they are not always easy to win.
Consider these three tips from Christina Couch of Bankrate.com on ways to cut college costs:

From the NY Times:
By RON LIEBER
Published: July 26, 2008

When college financial aid officers got into trouble last year for accepting gifts from lenders, the moral of the story was clear: You could easily overpay for your student loan by simply borrowing from a college’s recommended lender without first shopping around.
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For parents with children in college, or nearing college age, this video from NBC’s Today Show is worth watching.

Investing in collegiate housing is not for everyone, but if the angle interests you, don’t forget to purchase an accompanying personal liability insurance for injuries that may occur on-site.
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Colleges should have figured out by now that the parents of schooled children are, by necessity, homeschooling college admissions. Parents take an interest, a profound interest, in everything associated with getting their children launched into successful futures, and when public high school counselors are each serving 250 or more students, parents are aware that they need to look out for their child's interests, because if they do not, who will?

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