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Your Aid Package is Based on What The College Thinks You Need Financial aid award letters have arrived! Families who have a clear understanding of their offers and then thoughtfully appeal for more financial aid money can receive thousands of dollars more in aid each year. In an admissions season full of unknowns, schools are on the hunt …
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You can save thousands of dollars per year on the cost of college if you take the time to appeal for more financial aid. If the situation fits, here are 5 compelling reasons to give a college why you’re appealing for more aid. Reason 1: A Comparable College Offered You More Money Colleges enrollments are …
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Asking For More Money is the Right Thing to Do Appealing for more financial aid is a smart move for families. College is one of the biggest investments a family can make. Savvy consumers negotiate the best deal from a college. There are 5 great reasons why you should too. First: You Are the Consumer …
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Appealing for more financial aid is an excellent way to make college more affordable. A college education is the second biggest purchase—the first is buying a house—that a family will make in a lifetime. As a buyer, your main goal should be to negotiate for a lower price. Asking for more financial aid makes good …
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What trends related to college admissions do you foresee post-pandemic? The biggie among post-pandemic admission trends will be a spike in permanently test-optional colleges. Many schools that stopped requiring SAT’s and ACT’s this year will continue these suspensions into next year or for a 2-to-3-year trial period beyond. Some colleges will make the SAT/ACT changes …
2020 wrapped up with the passage of a $900 billion fiscal stimulus package and a $1.4 trillion government funding deal, which also included some long-awaited reforms to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). There has been a lot of discussion about the rebranding of the EFC (Expected Family Contribution), but there are some …
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Tap into a few tricks that can ease your mind about how to pay for college. Tip 1: Know that aid is available to everyone. You don’t have to be a financial aid whiz or “an insider” to get financial aid. You can tap into lots of different types of financial aid. What most people …
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When you’re starting the college search, it’s easy to hit a few brick walls. What’s one of the major not-so-soft landings? Yep: The sticker shock that accompanies every website you scan, every pamphlet you read, every conversation you have about college. How are we going to afford this? How will we pay for this? I …
I don’t know how many of you are in the same boat. This Friday, we realized that our son was less than 2 weeks away from his November 1st deadlines. The status of his Personal Essay, supposed to be completed this summer, was ‘getting there.’ Let’s not even talk about supplementals. We’ve discussed this essay …
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We spent months trying to find solutions to help us make better financial choices around the college admissions process. Along the way, we met other parents trying to do the same thing. We are excited to bring you a set of tools that enabled us to save literally thousands of dollars and endless hours of …
We created these tools to help our family navigate college admissions. We hope they will help other families tp save money, time and hassle. We would love to hear from you–drop us a line at info@meritmore.com
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