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A National Merit Scholarship Success Story

I always love when parents share a merit scholarship success story! This one is from the mom of a National Merit Finalist. Her daughter found a great-fit school offering a full tuition national merit scholarship. I asked her to share her daughter’s journey with us. As always, I keep these Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 4 months ago
College Search

Use TuitionFit to Find Your Best Value College

In today’s post, I am interviewing Mark Salisbury, Co-Founder of TuitionFit.org. You can use TuitionFit to find your best value college. It is an amazing tool that let’s you see what other students, with similar financial and academic statistics, are paying for college. This is based on actual award letters Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 5 months5 months ago
High School Preparation

A Successful College Search Needs Preparation Plus Opportunity

I believe a successful college search needs preparation plus opportunity. One of my favorite sayings has always been Luck = Preparation + Opportunity. What this means to me is that there really is no such thing as “luck”. You end up feeling “lucky” when you are well-prepared and the right Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 1 year ago
Paying for College

Merit Scholarship Deep Dive Challenge

The Merit Scholarship Deep Dive 5-Day Challenge starts Wednesday, August 21. This will be a great opportunity for you to prepare to help your student find great merit scholarships to make college more affordable. In the 5-Day Challenge, I will walk you through my Merit Scholarship Framework, covering one step Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 1 year ago
College Search

Important Tactics for Reducing the Cost of College

This is a guest post from Daniel Bishop, founder and Comprehensive Financial Planner from Black Swan Advisors. See his full bio at the bottom of the post. There are so many important tactics for reducing the cost of college.  And planning for college is like turning over hundreds of stones. Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 2 years ago
Financial Aid

More Debt-Free College Strategies

Here are more debt-free college strategies. In my last two posts, Debt-Free College Strategies – These Worked for Us and Debt-Free College Strategies #2 – These Also Worked for Us, I covered the debt-free college strategies we used with our 3 girls. There are other debt-free college strategies that weren’t Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 2 years ago
Paying for College

Debt-Free College Strategies #2 – These Also Worked for Us

There are so many debt-free college strategies. Last week I wrote a HUGE post about 10 that worked for my family with the college choices for my three girls – Debt-Free College Strategies – These Worked for Us. As I thought about it more after the post, I realized that Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 2 years2 years ago
Paying for College

Debt-Free College Strategies – These Worked for Us

There are many debt-free college strategies. This week, I’ve been watching my friend Jocelyn Paonita Pearson, of The Scholarship System, in her free Debt-Free Degree Workshops. She and I are very much on the same wavelength about how to go to college debt free and what’s important in the college Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 2 years2 years ago
Paying for College

When Your Expected Family Contribution is Too High

When your expected family contribution is too high to be affordable for your family, you have several options. I want to address this both for high school Seniors with actual award letters in hand and also for younger students where Net Price Calculators are indicating an expected family contribution amount Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 2 years1 year ago
Paying for College

4 Ways to Pay for College – Parents, That’s All There Are

Parents, there are really only 4 ways to pay for college. There are no big secrets when it comes to paying for college. It really comes down to how much of it will come out of your pockets and your student’s pockets. For most families, paying for college requires a Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 2 years2 years ago

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