Below you will find all the course resource guides. To make sure you always have them, I’d highly recommend that you download them onto your computer.
Your Step-by-Step Blueprint to Cut Your College Costs
Your Smart Blueprint for Selecting Colleges
The Ultimate College List Builder
A Guide to Building the Perfect College List
The Ultimate List of the Nation’s Most Generous Colleges
Schools That Don’t Provide Merit Scholarships
EFC Primer: What You Need to Know About Expected Family Contributions
How To Measure the Generosity of Colleges: What You Need to Know About Net Price Calculators
FAFSA & CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE Resources
Six Ways to Cut the Cost of College
The Ultimate SAT and ACT Guide
I am also giving you a guide that I developed for the consultants and counselors. The guide focuses on the steps families need to take when looking for affordable schools.
A Step-by-Step College Guide to Help Families Cut Their College Costs
Home Equity Practices
You are also receiving an Excel spreadsheet of how 92 PROFILE colleges assess home equity.
Full-Ride and Full-Tuition Scholarship List
Below you’ll find the list of 1,200 major merit scholarships offered by 605 colleges and universities across the U.S. You can look for scholarships using the PDF version or through the searchable Excel spreadsheet.
With the searchable spreadsheet, you can filter for scholarships by minimum grade point averages, minimum SAT and ACT scores, states, scholarship types, amounts and more.
Scholarship List (Searchable Excel spreadsheet)
Webinar Recordings for the Summer 2017 Class
1st Webinar: Introduction to the Class, July 18, 2017.
2nd Webinar: Main Sources of College Money, July 25, 2017
3rd Webinar: Increasing Admission Chances, Aug. 3, 2017
4th Webinar: Financial Aid Formulas and Maximizing Financial Aid, Aug. 9, 2017.
Webinar Recordings for the Winter 2017 Class
1st Webinar: Introduction to the Class: Feb 2, 2017
2nd Webinar: Main Sources of College Money, Feb. 15, 2017
3rd Webinar: Increasing Admission Chances, Feb. 28, 2017
4th Webinar: Financial Aid Formulas and Maximizing Financial Aid. March 9, 2017
Webinar Recordings for the Fall 2016 Class
1st Webinar. Introduction to the Class, Sept. 20, 2016.
2nd Webinar. The Main Sources of College Money, Oct. 5, 2016.
3rd Webinar. Financial Aid Formulas and Maximizing Financial Aid. Oct. 24, 2016.
4th Webinar. Increasing Admission Chances and Awards. Oct. 26, 2016.
Bonus Webinar. Answering Your Questions. Nov. 30, 2016.
Webinar Recordings for the Summer 2016 Class
Every time I hold a webinar, I will post the link to the recorded webinar right here. You must DOWNLOAD any recording onto your computer before you watch or it will freeze.
1st Webinar: Introduction to the Class, June 8, 2016
2nd Webinar: Main Sources of College Money, June 23, 2016
3rd Webinar: Financial Aid Formulas and Maximizing Financial Aid, July 12, 2016
4th Webinar: Increasing Admission Chances and Awards, Aug. 9, 2016
Webinar Recordings for Winter 2016 Class
You are also free to look at the webinar recordings of previous classes. The Powerpoint presentations will use many of the same slides, but Q&A portion of the webinar will obviously be different.
The Q&A portion of these webinars can be 30 to 45 minutes long!
1st Webinar: Introduction to the Class and Q&As on Feb. 24, 2016
2nd Webinar: Main Sources of College Money and Q&As on March 2, 2016
3rd Webinar: Increasing Admission Chances and Awards on March 16, 2016
4th Webinar: Financial Aid Aid Formulas and Maximizing Financial Aid, April 7, 2016
Webinar Recordings for Summer 2015 Class
I am sharing the links to webinars that I held for the spring/summer parent class.
Recording of Bonus Parent Webinar held on May 20.
Recording of Parent Webinar held on May 28.
Recording of Parent Webinar held on June 17.
Recording of Parent Webinar held on June 24.