Somehow my husband and I can never quite get on the same page when it comes to keeping documents for tax time. He does the bills and I do...

My son chose a school weeks ago. We haven’t gotten a bill yet, so that means I have time to plan. I’ll not only be planning for how we’ll...

Why do so many people look at me like I have 2 heads when I start talking about private scholarships? I recently saw a FaceBook post from...

URGENT! - If you have a college bound high school senior considering taking out student loans to help pay for college - PLEASE READ! Here...

My son had been chasing an invitation to play NCAA Water Polo for a while from two schools. He had visited neither school since they are...

3/7/22 At the beginning of the school year, when my son and I started the admissions process, I kind of felt like a schoolgirl thinking -...

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Ever noticed that a lot of advisors, planners, and coaches answer questions with the phrase "Well, everyone is different...?" I'll bet...

At CCPS, I define student aid as anything that helps your student get through college without loans. Ironically, a lot of students view...

Look - I know you're going to feel paralyzed at some point along your college journey. Nothing is going to seem apparent or easily...

When I set out to design a college planning solution, I knew it had make life easier for you and your teen, otherwise - what's the point?...

Financial aid is a blanket term meaning different things for different people. Unfortunately, it is often used a little too broadly for...

There have been two important moments for me that really opened my eyes to the possibility of helping kids get through school without...

It is a universal truth that teens would rather listen to anybody, I mean ANYBODY except their parents. This includes some random,...

FAFSA - It stands for Free Application For Student Aid. You'll have to fill it out if you want to take federal student loans. Schools...

Read any Facebook Group page on college planning and you'll see an amazing array of fears that parents are describing. Not least among...

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Ah, the school list. If you’ve started thinking about college planning, you know it well. You’ve heard about the safety school and the...

This is a question I’ve heard repeated hundreds of times by parents planning for college. Most are looking for THE right school and plan...

We did it!!! I'd like to say HE did it - but that wouldn't be entirely accurate. He did take initiative to get the process completed...

Parker has until November 1st (11 days from now) to submit four applications and he's almost finished one of them. I guess that doesn't...

This college visit was a little scary to me. I had heard both good and bad things about the school and had no idea how Parker would feel....

9/15/21 We’re finally making traction here. I couldn’t be more relieved. The amount of work that goes into a college application is...

9/7/21 Two weeks ago, I finally got my son to sit down and solidify a plan with me to apply to 4 schools - MIT, UF, Bucknell and Penn...

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8-25-21 Aside from being a financial planner and coach, I’m a mom, among other things (wife, housekeeper, cook, chauffeur, etc). In fact...

One of the best financial habits you can learn is to control the amount of money you borrow in life. This is especially true when you’re...

It’s understandable that a lot of parents are concerned about their ability to send their kids to college. It’s not easy to find good...

If you’re a parent with a teenager in high school and you’re not sure how you’re going to pay for college, this blog is for you. The...

July 2021 As much as we’d like to avoid them, student loans often open up numerous possibilities to students shopping for college....