Guide to Getting Financial Aid 2009

A complete guide to financial aid and college affordability.

Guide to Getting Financial Aid 2009

By College Board
A complete guide to financial aid and college affordability. This book combines simple and practical explanations of the financial aid process with the "money facts" about more than 3,000 two-year and four-year colleges to help readers make the right choices.
The 2009 edition provides easy-to-understand answers for all the questions students and parents have about paying for college. Includes:

A planning calendar showing key financial aid application deadlines.
Worksheets to estimate how much aid you will get.
Tips on how to take the bite out of college costs.
Step-by-step guides to filling out the FAFSA and other financial aid forms.
Guidelines for comparing award letters from colleges and making appeals for more aid.
Strategies for explaining your family's unique circumstances to colleges so they'll give you the aid you really need.
Information about scholarships offered by colleges for academics, sports, artistic or musical talent, and ROTC.
"Know the Lingo" guides to key financial aid terms.
Advice on working your way through college.
Profiles of more than 3,000 colleges, universities, and technical schools, showing the "sticker price" for tuition and costs, and what you can expect to pay.

1,000 pages. Softcover. July 2008.
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