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        • Keep Your Sanity While Planning For College – Our Top 5 Tips for Success

          This one’s for all you parents out there starting the college planning and application process with your high schoolers. Don’t you just love how colleges want […]

      • The MyCAP Software
        • Confused by the Appeals Process? A Step By Step Guide for High School Seniors
        • MyCAP Award Analyzer- Did YOU get a Fair Financial Aid Offer?
        • Financial Aid Appeals – Evaluate Your Options with our New Awards Analyzer
        • CAP Projections: A Deep Dive into College Aid Pro’s Data Collection
        • “My College Budget” Makes Paying For College Easy For Your Student
        • MyCAP Award Analyzer- Did YOU get a Fair Financial Aid Offer?

          CAP’s new Financial Aid Award Analyzer in the Evaluate & Appeal module allows you to answer arguably the most important question when it comes to making […]

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        • Will Saving For College Hurt My Financial Aid?
        • Create your College Budget – Understanding what YOU can Afford
        • What is a 529 Plan?
        • Research and Compare 529 Plans
        • What Expenses Can Be Paid from a 529 Plan?
        • What’s a 529 Plan? 5 Easy Ways to Start Saving For College

          It’s no secret that college tuition is continuing to increase dramatically year over year. For the 2021-2022 school year, the average annual cost of college tuition […]

      • How does financial aid work? Am I eligible/EFC?
        • Will Saving For College Hurt My Financial Aid?
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        • “My College Budget” Makes Paying For College Easy For Your Student
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        • How Home Equity Affects The CSS Profile
        • “My College Budget” Makes Paying For College Easy For Your Student

          Everyone has heard “paying for college” horror stories. Families spend a full summer (sometimes longer) touring college campuses with their rising seniors. They fall in love […]

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        • Can High SAT Scores Help Your College Admission Chances?
        • How to Get a Full-Ride Scholarship from Your ACT or SAT Score
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        • How to Get a Full-Ride Scholarship from Your ACT or SAT Score

          Wanting to get your student a free college education? Who doesn’t! The fact is, there are still colleges in the United States that offer full-ride merit-based […]

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        • Keep Your Sanity While Planning For College – Our Top 5 Tips for Success
        • Senioritis – Is it Really A Big Deal?
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        • Create your College Budget – Understanding what YOU can Afford
        • College Aid Pro’s FREE College Winter Bootcamp for High Schoolers and Their Families
        • Keep Your Sanity While Planning For College – Our Top 5 Tips for Success

          This one’s for all you parents out there starting the college planning and application process with your high schoolers. Don’t you just love how colleges want […]

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        • Free Money for College: Understanding Grants and Scholarships
        • How to Make a College Education Affordable
        • The 5 Types of Need-Based Financial Aid for College-Bound Families
        • Free Money for College: Understanding Grants and Scholarships

            Free Money for College: Understanding Grants and Scholarships All schools offer free money, or “gift aid” to discount the cost of college with grants, scholarships, […]

      • Merit Scholarships
        • CAP Report Card – Merit Scholarship Transparency Rankings
        • What Are Talent Merit Scholarships?
        • What Are Competitive Merit Scholarships?
        • Top Two Resources for Finding Automatic Merit Scholarships
        • Ways to Pay for College: 5 Types of Merit-Based Scholarships
        • CAP Report Card – Merit Scholarship Transparency Rankings

           The Importance of Transparency College Aid Pro’s (CAP) Mission is to End the Student Debt Crisis by empowering families to shop smarter for college. This is […]

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        • Can My Kid Get a Full-Ride Scholarship?
        • A National Merit Scholarship Success Story
        • How to Find Full Ride Scholarships
        • How to Get a Full-Ride Scholarship from Your ACT or SAT Score
        • Can My Kid Get a Full-Ride Scholarship?

          I was listening to a financial call-in program the other day and the topic of how a mom was going to pay for her kid’s college […]

      • Private Scholarships
        • 5 Things Parents Need to Know About Private Scholarships
        • 5 Things Parents Need to Know About Private Scholarships

          This was originally written for and published by Saving For College, adapted and expanded for the College Aid Pro community. When families think about bridging the […]

      • Athletics
        • Getting a Division 1 Athletic Scholarship
        • Athletic Scholarships 101
        • The 3 Best Free Online Resources for Athletic Recruiting
        • Getting a Division 1 Athletic Scholarship

          Getting a Division 1 athletic scholarship is not an easy task. However, if your student has this goal, there are definitely tips that will increase his […]

      • National Merit/Nation Recognition
        • What are National Merit Scholarships?
        • Do National Merit Finalists Get Full-Ride Scholarships?
        • A National Merit Scholarship Success Story
        • What are National Merit Scholarships?

          Most families in the college application process have heard the term “National Merit Scholarship” float around in college counselor meetings and college orientations. However, there is […]

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        • FAFSA Changes 2023-24: What You Need To Know
        • The FAFSA Simplification Act – Upcoming FAFSA Changes

          With the FAFSA Simplification Act comes a host of changes to the way federal student aid is calculated. Some of those changes have already been implemented, […]

      • CSS Profile
        • How Home Equity Affects The CSS Profile
        • 2023-2024 CSS Profile Dos, Don’ts, and Updates
        • What you Need to Know About Completing the CSS Profile or FAFSA with Divorced or Separated Parents or Two-Household Families
        • Parents and Dependents: Clarifying Relationships in Financial Aid Reporting
        • The 3 Different Types of Expected Family Contribution Explained
        • 2023-2024 CSS Profile Dos, Don’ts, and Updates

          The 2023-2024 CSS Profile is available on October 1, 2022. Before you dive headfirst into filling out this beast, let’s break it down with some basic […]

      • Verification / IDOC
        • Video: How to Complete the IDOC Financial Aid Verification Process
        • Pros and Cons of FAFSA’s Data Retrieval Tool
        • IDOC and FAFSA Verification
        • FAFSA Verification – What It Is, How to Handle It, and Why Parents Shouldn’t Freak Out
        • IDOC and FAFSA Verification

          Getting all of your financial aid forms completed and submitted is a major milestone. A lot of families use that moment to breathe a sigh of […]

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      • Awards
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        • What Is Appealing? Can I Get More Money?
        • Understanding Financial Aid Award Letters And How To Compare Them
        • What College Should I Go To? 12 Important Things to Consider
        • Financial Aid Appeals – Evaluate Your Options with our New Awards Analyzer

          “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer We created the College Aid Pro platform first and foremost to help fill […]

      • Appeal Process
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        • Does Appealing For More Financial Aid Affect Admissions
        • Understanding Financial Aid Award Letters And How To Compare Them
        • Financial Aid Appeals – Evaluate Your Options with our New Awards Analyzer

          “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer We created the College Aid Pro platform first and foremost to help fill […]

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        • How Much Can I Borrow? Student Loan Tips to not Borrow Too Much

          For most families, student loans must be part of the college-funding conversation. Through careful planning to include smart savings, tax considerations, college choice, cash flow, scholarships, […]

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        • Understanding Federal Student Loan Options

          Many college-bound families look to federal student loans provided by the U.S. Department of Education to bridge the gap between what they have saved or what […]

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        • Comparing All Student Loan Programs: Private Student Loans vs. Federal Loans

          The truth is that most college-bound students and their families will face a funding gap between what they can afford to pay out of pocket for […]

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Confused by the Appeals Process? A Step By Step Guide for High School Seniors

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Congratulations Class of 2023 – you’re on the home stretch! High school graduation is right around the corner. Do you know what you’re doing next? Many […]

MyCAP Award Analyzer- Did YOU get a Fair Financial Aid Offer?

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CAP’s new Financial Aid Award Analyzer in the Evaluate & Appeal module allows you to answer arguably the most important question when it comes to making […]

Financial Aid Appeals – Evaluate Your Options with our New Awards Analyzer

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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer We created the College Aid Pro platform first and foremost to help fill […]

CAP Projections: A Deep Dive into College Aid Pro’s Data Collection

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At College Aid Pro, we pride ourselves on creating sound data sets that power easy-to-use software for college-bound families across the country. We’re dedicated to helping […]

“My College Budget” Makes Paying For College Easy For Your Student

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Everyone has heard “paying for college” horror stories. Families spend a full summer (sometimes longer) touring college campuses with their rising seniors. They fall in love […]

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