The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price (2nd Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0132944677 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the consulting director of college planning, K-12, at the University of California, San Diego Extension. She also is a frequent speaker on how families can find and afford great schools. Lynn is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. . Lynn’s daughter is a recent college graduate and her son is a college sophomore. She
The second edition of The College Solution, which contains approximately 90% new material, is aimed at helping parents and teenagers become empowered consumers as they navigate through the college process. It's not always the families with the brightest students or the parents who are struggling financially who receive the most money. The College Solution shares the secrets of how you can capture some of this money for your own family. Billions of dollars are available to pay for college, but not everybody gets their share. No other book offers this much practical guidance on choosing and paying for college now – and no other book will save you as much money!. O’Shaughnessy presents an easy-to-use, proven road map for getting past the ratings, and finding the right schools at the right price. The book provides advice on such topics as financial aid, merit scholarships, athletic scholarships, admission hooks, the important differences between colleges and universities, college rankings, the best student loans and the latest online tools to evaluate the generosity of schools. This bestseller has been completely updated to provide you with the answers that you need
Robert Hess said I couldn't be more thankful for this book. If you or your child is about to apply to college, do yourself a favor and read this book - and follow its advice.Thanks to this book, both my daughter and also her boyfriend applied to and were recently admitted to several of the Colleges That Change Lives, receiving both merit aid and need-based aid that reduced the total cost of attendance by 75% and close to 100%, respectively. Yes, they are both very good students, but had they done what most everyone else does - apply to a flagship state university (in our case, UCLA or UC Berkeley), they may well have . "An essential guide for parents of high school students" according to N. B. Kennedy. Lynn O'Shaughnessy's book is essential reading for anyone who has a child heading for college in a few years. The biggest takeaway for me was the message to start early. Don't wait until junior year to start thinking about where-when-how-and-why.Because of the ridiculously complicated issue of financing, parents need to complete all kinds of financial calculations -- ones I'd never heard of, like the Expected Family Contribution and the Net Price Calculator -- in order to estimate the true cost of any college their child is considering. I sort of knew about t. Useful summary, with a few issues. This book is a reasonable resource for parents searching for basic knowledge about college types and financial aid. It will teach little that is new to anyone who is a denizen of "College Confidential" or similar websites, or anyone who reads College advice blogs, because much content is available for free on the internet, but the book does help in terms of organization. And, for some people having the information in print makes it more readable and accessible as needed. Several colleges are highlighted that students might never otherwise have heard of, which
Students and parents are inundated with information about college these days and this is a great book to help you figure out what really matters.”—Jeffrey J. At every step along the process, Lynn O’Shaughnessy provides the necessary information families need to know about admissions and financial aid in an easy-to-digest format. Selingo, vice president and editorial director, The Chronicle of Higher Education “Chock-full of information about college entrance and affordability, O’Shaughnessy’s second edition of The College Solution is sure to raise your admission and financial aid ‘IQ.’”—Seth Allen, Dean of Admissions and Financia