Reducing College Costs

Financial Aid and College Cost Webinars
Our Webinars are: Live, Interactive, Convenient, allow time for your questions and are delivered by Financial Aid Experts.

Understanding College Costs and Financial Aid

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Understand the true cost of attending college
• Gain an understanding of financial aid
• Financial aid jargon translated into PLAIN LANGUAGE
• Develop strategies to reduce the cost of college for your family
• Ample time for questions and answers

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grades 8 - 11

Schedule: Throughout the year

Price: Free

College Costs & Financial Aid for Parents of Seniors

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• All topics in Understanding College Costs and Financial Aid plus
• Understand about Common Financial Aid Forms & Deadlines
• Applying for financial aid
• The FAFSA form
• The CSS Profile form
• School Specific Aid Applications

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grade 12

Schedule: September, October, November, January, February

Price: Free

How to complete the FAFSA Accurately and Effectively - Including How to communicate your special family and/or financial circumstances to the financial aid offices

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Line by line guidance on how to accurately and effectively complete the FAFSA form
• Avoid common mistakes and qualify for all the aid that you are entitled to receive
• Reduce your stress and avoid paying a large fee to have this form completed
• How to determine if you have "special circumstances" that effect your financial aid.
• How to communicate your "special circumstances" to the financial aid office.

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grades 12 (and Students)

Schedule: December - March

Price: Free

How to Complete the CSS Profile Accurately and Effectively

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Line by line guidance on how to accurately and effectively complete the CSS Profile form
• Avoid common mistakes and qualify for all the aid that you are entitled to receive
• Reduce your stress and avoid paying a large fee to have this form prepared
• How to determine if you have "special circumstances" that effect your financial aid.
• How to communicate your "special circumstances" to the financial aid office.

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grade 12 (and Students)

Schedule: September - March

Price: Free

Unemployed or Underemployed - What Parents Need to Know About Financial Aid

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Understand recent changes that may allow you to qualify for more financial aid eligibility
• How to document your circumstances
• How to approach the financial aid office

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Target Audience: Unemployed or underemployed parents with Students in Grades 8 - 11 (and Students)

Schedule: Throughout the year

Price: $19.99 – free with waiver from guidance counselor

Divorced, Separated or Remarried - What parents need to know about the financial aid process

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Learn about the special rules that apply to divorced, separated or remarried parents
• How to avoid costly mistakes
• How to accurately prepare your FAFSA
• How to accurately prepare your CSS Profile
• How to communicate your situation to the financial aid office

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grades 8 - 11 (and Students)

Schedule: Throughout the year

Price: $49.99 – free with waiver from guidance counselor

Decoding and Comparing Financial Aid Award Letters and How to appeal your financial aid award

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• What is a financial aid award letter
• How to translate the financial aid described in your award letters to your net cost
• How to make sure you have a multi-year award
• How to understand the requirements to receive each award
• How to compare award letters from different schools
• How to calculate the real cost of attending each school
• How to write an effective financial aid appeal
• How to evaluate responses from aid offices

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Target Audience: Post Admission Seniors and Parents

Schedule: March, April, May

Price: Free

Now That I’ve Deposited, How do I Pay?

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Review your payments options
• Evaluate your options – pros and cons
• What if things change during the year?

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Target Audience: Post Admission Seniors

Schedule: May, June, July

Price: $49.99 – free with waiver from guidance counselor

Recruited Student Athlete - what parents need to know about college costs and financial aid

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• What is an athletic scholarship
• What is required to maintain a scholarship

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grades 8 - 11 (and Students)

Schedule: Quarterly

Price: $49.99 - free with waiver from guidance counselor

Same Sex Parents

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Federal laws about same sex couples
• How your status effects financial aid eligibility
• Adopted vs. biological child
• Avoid costly mistakes

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grades 8 - 11 (and Students)

Schedule: Quarterly

Price: $49.99 - free with waiver from guidance counselor

Business Owners – Financial Aid opportunities and challenges from owning a small business

• Live, interactive, convenient, private with time for your questions
• Understand the advantages available to owners of small businesses such as 1040 Schedule C, Partnerships, Limited Liability Company’s and Subchapter S corps.
• What is the definition of a small business?
• How business assets are used in Federal & Institutional Financial Aid
• The definition of Phantom Income and how it effects financial aid
• How to document and explain any special circumstances connected with your business

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Target Audience: Parents with Students in Grades 8 - 2 (and Students)

Schedule: Throughout the year

Price: $49.99 – free with waiver from guidance counselor

Testimonials

“Any parent worried about paying for college should reach out to the folks at Reducing College Costs as soon as possible. Although I didn’t begin working with them until the fall of my daughter’s senior year, I am very happy with the results we achieved."

"We started working with the experts at Reducing College Costs when our son was a high school sophomore and just beginning the college search process. Given the state of the current economy, we really wanted to get an accurate sense of the real costs for a family like
ours at different types of schools we were considering. And we also wanted to uncover every possible option for reducing the cost."

"We contacted the experts at Reducing Colleges Costs to help us decide the best way to save for our 5 and 9 year-old daughters college costs. They reviewed our family and financial information and carefully explained the best options available to us."

Full testimonials are available here.