"Expert Financial Aid Consultants"

Hey!  Tonight let’s continue our financial aid discussion with a talk about scholarships and grants.   These are absolutely awesome aid types because you don’t owe anything later.  We in the financial aid biz call this gift aid. All-aboard the free money train. Some scholarships… Scholarship money is provided by schools (ask your financial aid office) and [...]

Hey guys!  Usually there would be an earlier post to read that starts by wishing everyone a happy weekend.  But there was a very important wedding on Saturday!  So, happy end-of-weekend; try to avoid a bad case of “The Mondays.”  Any who, tonight we’re going to talk a bit more about scholarships, honing in on [...]

Scholarships can be won for many different reasons: academic excellence, athletic skills and even for taking a survey.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg, however.  For your amusement, and hopefully your benefit, here are 5 truly weird scholarships.  Hey, there’s something for everyone. Tall Clubs International Scholarship.  Being tall means more than reaching high [...]

Each year, thousands of students flock towards the countless scholarship opportunities made available to them.  These scholarships more often than not require certain things from applicants—an outstanding GPA, lengthy and absolutely grueling essays or enrollment in a specific academic program/major.  You can skip right over these limiting requirements with a select few easy scholarships that [...]

Loans, grants, scholarships.  The Big 3 of financial aid, and about the quickest financial aid overview possible.  Several options are available to students, but how do you pinpoint the best direction to go?  The easiest answer is to go with free money.  So that leaves us with grants and scholarships as the best financial aid. [...]

So you want to go to college and know that there are funds available, but you want to know, “What specifically is out there for me?”  This question taps into the different types of financial aid offered for undergraduate students.  At the most basic level, you have your free aid and you have aid that [...]

Hey everyone!  We’re in the heat of summer here these days, and between the cookouts and parties, parents and new freshmen looking to the future have financial aid for college on the brain.  The hard truth is that while we keep our chins up and push forward, the economy is still down.  Many families have [...]

The hard work is done. Your FASFA is complete and has long been mailed or sent electronically. Maybe you’ve even submitted your CSS Profile. Now what? The wait and questions begin: “When do I receive my scholarship and/or loan money?”, “How will I know it arrived?”, “Does the money automatically go to my school or personally to [...]

There are countless forms of academic financial aid provided by the federal and state governments, as well as a variety of organizations through the private sector. When looking to further your education, academic financial aid is the key to making college affordable. Very few people face a new chapter of their student careers prepared to [...]

With financial aid being in high demand due to the fledgling economy, people are looking for more and more sources of aid. While the FAFSA is a necessary document for gaining federal financial assistance, it remains clear that the most desired form of financial aid funding is the kind that you don’t need to pay [...]

Once you dive into the process of finding financial aid for college, the FAFSA is something you’re hit with almost immediately. Pretty much every school requires that it be filled out after admission, and it’s one of the most popular forms of financial aid for most people. However, many schools also make references to the [...]

When choosing your financial aid sources from all the different options out there, the FAFSA is one of the key forms you definitely do not want to overlook. This form is required by most colleges and universities to be sent in before attendance, and it is meant to provide you with federal financial assistance towards [...]

With college tuition increasing again due to colleges and universities receiving less state funding, students are forced to rely more heavily upon financial aid in the form of student loans, especially from the federal government. In lieu of this raise in tuition, there is a bright side. The federal government has also expanded the programs [...]

The financial aid process would not commonly be described as easy. To break it down into steps that will make it much more doable for you overall, there are many financial aid services offered to assist you as much as possible. No one expects you to be a financial aid expert, and documents like the [...]

Getting the amount of financial aid money necessary for you to attend the school of your choice is not an impossible task.  Many may think so due to the increasing difficulty of the process itself.  However, it is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed in the college process because without financial aid, college can cost thousands of [...]

It’s a common occurrence to cringe at the sight of the tuition price tag attached to the college of your choice. However, what many people hoping to attend college but getting scared away by the cost do not realize is that most students actually don’t pay the price set at a college or university. It [...]

Finding sources of aid for college, as well as actually obtaining the money can be pretty challenging and just downright confusing.  However, there are many college financial aid services out there to help you get the aid you need, while at the same time making it as stress-free as possible.  Here are a few resources [...]

Getting financial aid for graduate school can be a trying process.  However, there are plenty of loans out there available to graduate students, as well as scholarships, so don’t let the process itself scare you away from applying.  The three main types of financial aid for graduate students are focused on law, medical and business [...]

The cost of tuition is on the rise, especially with the current state of the economy.  Students throughout the Western hemisphere are finding themselves having to choose between a debt filled education or simply avoiding the college process altogether.  This decision is especially critical to graduate students, who may already be in significant debt after [...]

We’ve touched on this subject before. Scholarships are a great way to get free money for college; you just have to look. You really can get a scholarship for virtually anything. Here is some more proof: Merck offers scholarships to high school seniors who are determined, disciplined, and successfully managing their asthma. Take good care [...]