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Eric Tyson
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April 21, 2020

Paying For College For Dummies

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Discover a concrete financial plan to finance a college education

Financing a college education is a daunting task no matter what your circumstances. Bestselling author and personal finance expert, Eric Tyson offers tried and true strategic advice on how to understand loans, know your options, and how to improve your financial fitness while paying down your student loan debt. Armed with the checklists and timelines, you’ll be able to:

  • Figure out what colleges actually cost
  • Get to know the FAFSA® and CSS Profile(TM)
  • Research scholarship

opportunities

  • Quickly compare financial aid offers from different schools
  • Find creative ways to lighten your debt load
  • Explore alternatives such as apprenticeships, online programs

    • Paying for College For Dummies helps parents and independent students navigate everything from planning strategically as a married/separated/divorced/widowed parent, completing every question on the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE forms, understanding tax laws, and so much more. No other book offers this much practical guidance on choosing and paying or college.

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    About The Author

    Eric Tyson is the best-selling author of Personal Finance For Dummies, Investing For Dummies, Home Buying Kit For Dummies, and more. A nationally recognized personal finance writer and lecturer, Eric graduated with honors from Yale University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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    If you’re thinking of sending your child to college one day (or attending college yourself), you have a lot of decisions to make: how to save money for college, which colleges may be a good fit, whether an alternative to a four-year college may be a better option, plus seeking financial aid, scholarships, and grants.
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    The U.S. tax laws are unnecessarily complicated and extensive. But it’s worth taking the time to understand how to make them work for you, because paying for a college education is an expensive undertaking. The tax rules and regulations include numerous breaks for parents of college students and some for young adults as well who have previously incurred college costs and taken out some college loans.
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    Hopefully you will soon complete your college degree or other desired training. And, even better, you will find a job and become financially independent. Make sure that you set out into the real world with important knowledge regarding managing your money and making the most of the money that you earn. This article highlights ten important things that you should know.
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    Student loans to help you pay for college may seem simple. Unfortunately, appearances can be deceiving. Numerous types of federal student loans and repayment plan options and lots of private loans exist. Repayment options and forgiveness of some loan balances are not widely or well understood. How to keep track of your loans During the years of college, you’ll get bombarded with various financial aid forms and financial aid award letters and notices.
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    Parents and their offspring have all sorts of dreams and fantasies about their kids playing sports, getting scholarships, and perhaps even turning pro and making big money from their sport. There’s nothing inherently wrong with having dreams and aspirations, but it’s important that they be largely grounded in reality and tempered with solid, back-up plans.
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    Plenty of studies and analyses show that those who have more education generally enjoy lower rates of unemployment and higher employment income. The graphic in the following figure clearly shows that those with higher levels of education reap considerably higher wages from work and lower unemployment rates. Source: U.
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    The Free Application for Federal Student Aid — also known as FAFSA® form — is the starting point in applying for college financial aid. The name of this statement is kind of misleading because you may assume that you’re completing to qualify for student aid through or sponsored by the federal government. While you are, the FAFSA® form information and the analysis of the answers you provide on it are also used by many colleges and universities as a starting point for determining your aid eligibility and ultimately how much a given school will charge your offspring to attend.
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    If you’re thinking of sending your child to college one day (or attending college yourself), you have a lot of decisions to make: how to save money for college, which colleges may be a good fit, whether an alternative to a four-year college may be a better option, plus seeking financial aid, scholarships, and grants.
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    Although high school is a terrific time to teach kids key personal financial concepts before they’re nudged out of the family nest and go to college, you can and should begin to teach kids about money much sooner. The latter preschool and elementary school years, when kids are learning math concepts and getting comfortable with numbers, are an excellent time to lay a solid knowledge base.
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    Before jumping into completing the specific college financial aid forms that you are likely to encounter, consider whether you should apply for aid, learn how to use the net price calculator to estimate what a particular college may charge your family, explore financial aid form deadlines, and so forth. As a general rule, you should apply for financial aid — especially and including so-called merit aid, which isn’t based upon financial need (which is called needs-based aid).
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    Your kids should strive to do their best in school. Their grades do matter. Now, that’s not to say they should stay up past midnight, hole up in their rooms, and toil away to get every point possible on that next test or try to write the perfect paper. Perfection isn’t possible, and kids (and adults) can make themselves miserable trying to attain the impossible.
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