Paying for college
Subtitle: the Greenes' guide to financing higher education
By: Howard R. Greene and Matthew W. Greene
Contributors: Greene, Matthew W., 1968-
Edition: 1st St. Martins' Griffin ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780312333379
Subjects: College costs; Personal Finance; Student aid
Description: In the last 20 years, tuition has increased by a factor of more than 200 percent, which is 3 times the increase in earned income of the average family. It takes from 25 to 30 percent of a family's yearly after tax earnings to pay for a single child's college education. Utilizing their access to college counseling, admissions, and financial aid professionals at colleges and universities across the country, this father and son team have developed a program to make paying for college manageable. They enlighten, motivate, and encourage students and their parents to follow a set of 10 principles designed to help families get a handle on saving and financing a college education. Their mission is to reassure and to help families of every income level and at every stage of preparation to plan a strategy for paying for college. A companion guide to the PBS show on how to finance college education, this handbook is penned by the country's preeminent educational consultants.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: College is well worth the cost and sacrifices you might have to make; title: Begin saving for college as early as possible, but it's never too late; title: Good students will have good choices; title: Do not let the costs of individual colleges limit your options; title: Apply for financial aid, if you will need it, at the same time you apply for admission; title: Make strategic use of the many information sources on need-based and merit-based scholarships available to you on the Internet, in the public library and bookstores, and from colleges; title: Applying to a broad-based group of colleges will create more opportunities to attend a college that suits you and one that you can afford; title: Consider your state's public university system; title: Consider beginning a two-step college education by enrolling in an inexpensive two-year program that will lead to transfer to a four-year college; title: Understand and carefully evaluate your aid package from each college; title: Conclusion; title: Paying for college calendar; title: Glossary of terms.