Welcome to part 4 of the Financial Aid Finder’s five-part FAFSA Workshop. If you want to catch up on parts 1-3, follow these links: Essential FAFSA Documents FAFSA PIN Common FAFSA Mistakes And remember that next week, I will be answering your FAFSA questions, so send ‘em in to me on email or leave me [...]
Hey guys! Sorry for the very late posting of Friday’s Scholarship Announcements. My Internet has been down since Thursday. Wow, it’s amazing how disconnected I feel from the world without my trusty wireless! As I have been mentioning the past few weeks, we are in the middle of scholarship season. Late winter/early spring is high [...]
Welcome to part 3 of the Financial Aid Finder’s five-part FAFSA Workshop. As the month of February winds its way down, many of you have just days or weeks left to finish up your FAFSA. In the first two weeks of our series, we gave you a list of the Essential FAFSA Documents and talked [...]
If you are a parent who has diligently socked away funds in a 529 Plan for your children’s college education, you have probably lost a bundle in the last year. Seeing your kids’ nest egg dip down is scary, no doubt about it. When the panic starts to set in, some of you are probably [...]
Welcome to part two of the Financial Aid Finder’s online FAFSA workshop. (Go here to read Part 1: The Essential Document Checklist .) The FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and it is your key to unlocking the treasure chest of federal financial aid. In order to help you maximize your student [...]
Do you need help with your financial aid application? Are you worried about how to complete your FAFSA in order to maximize your student aid award? If your answers were yes and YES, then you need to know about College Goal Sunday. I just read about this free nationwide program in my local Saturday paper. [...]
February 4, 2009 by Mara Strom Welcome to the Financial Aid Finder’s online FAFSA workshop. The FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which is your key to the treasure chest of federal (and even some state) financial aid for college. If you want to qualify for federal student loans, federal grants (that’s [...]
The month of January is winding down, which means the days are rapidly ticking away until tax the dreaded tax filing deadline (AKA April 15, 2009). If you are planning to apply for financial aid, however, you have even less time than you may think. That is because you can not complete your FAFSA, the [...]
