Scholarship Displacement – How Can Winning a Scholarship Cause You to Lose Financial Aid? Every year, students work very hard to apply for and receive scholarships from private sources like rotary, civic, and religious...
Choosing a College: 3 Key Affordability Questions to Ask The United States is home to over 4,000 colleges and universities. Having that many schools to choose from is both...
The Private College 529 Plan: A Unique Way to Save and Pay for College What if parents could lock in today’s tuition for a child who won’t actually go away to college for many...
FERPA and a Student’s Privacy: What Parents Need to Know FERPA…sounds like a weird noise doesn’t it? Like FERPA…oh, excuse me! But FERPA stands for Family Educational Rights and Privacy...
11 Secrets You Didn’t Know About 529 College Savings Plans 529 plans are a great way to take advantage of potential tax savings and grow an investment in a simple...
A Dollar Saved for College Beats a Dollar Borrowed for College Do you love May? So many things to celebrate: Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Star Wars Day, 529 Day, Lost Sock...
A Case Study: How to Successfully Pay for College AND Fund Retirement Once upon a time there were two families. Both families had well-paying jobs, and their children were bright hard-workers who...
Wage stagnation while college costs and student loan debt are skyrocketing Going to college is an investment. If you are going to spend upwards of $100,000 on something, it better be...
What’s the best niche for most financial advisors now and in the future? For a fee-only, fiduciary practice, college planning is just about the best niche you can get into right now because...
