We are able to show you each college’s breakdown of how much they cost to attend, an estimated merit scholarship ACF-Merit-Offers-2018-19 your student will receive based on their grades/test scores, as well as an estimated amount of need-based grants they can expect to receive based on your financial situation. This information is crucial in deciding which colleges fit your personal financial situation.
We will review your financial picture and put it through our computer software to determine your EFC and how that relates to your potential colleges.
After determining your EFC we will make recommendations to reduce your EFC to increase your opportunity for financial aid and need-based grants.
We will do an overall analysis of your specific situation, this enables us to know what to suggest to you to help cover the burden of putting your children through college.
No matter how much need-based grants or merit scholarships your student receives, there is still going to be some money that you are going to have to pay out of your own pocket for your children’s college education. We help you figure out the best way to pay for that portion of the college education with the least amount of disruption in your current monthly cash-flow.
During the college years, cash-flow is king. We work to help our clients create the optimum cash-flow while their children are in college through debt restructuring and a number of other strategies.
We will complete and submit the CSS Profile form if required by the college.
Similar to our ‘college search’ we help our clients identify colleges that will provide their students merit scholarships, regardless of their financial situation, and based on the student’s grades and test scores.
We will complete and submit the FAFSA for each year your student is in college.
We will complete and submit the CSS Profile form if required by the college.
We will complete and submit any institutional financial aid forms that are required by specific colleges to complete the financial aid application process.
Make you aware of all financial aid deadlines that are required by the colleges that your student is applying too.
Once you start to receive your financial aid award letters, we will review them for you to make sure they look accurate.
We will help you ‘behind the scenes’ in order to best present your case to the college in order to maximize your ability to receive additional grants/scholarships over and above the college’s first financial aid offer letter.
We will provide complete help in going through this tough and confusing financial aid process every year, for each of your children. It is our goal to be your consultant through the entire process so that you are guaranteed to have not spent any more money than absolutely necessary to put your children through college