This could be the year that changes the timeline for financial aid, but it doesn’t change the basic money decisions that students and their parents will have to make. It might just move them up earlier in the year. The FAFSA for 2017-18 will be...
Are you a college graduate having trouble repaying student loans, or a recent graduate who is not looking forward to the task of figuring out who gets paid when? Over the course of a four or five year college education, students and parents can take...
It may seem strange to be talking about another FAFSA in September already, but there has been a big change in the college financial aid application deadline. The FAFSA for the 2017-18 academic year will be online beginning October 1, 2016. There are still some...
Actually that title is probably a bit of a misnomer. More accurately, it should be, “How often should you talk about money with your children?” And the answer is…their entire life! Well, maybe you don’t need to lean over the baby crib to whisper about...
Students heading off to college for the 2016-17 academic year should already have their financial aid package in place. But everyone needs to be aware that the FAFSA for the 2017-18 academic year will be available beginning October 1. This applies to current high school...
2016 will be remembered as the year of the “big change” in college financial aid. This is the first year of the “early FAFSA” - one that will be available beginning October 1 instead of January 1. It also introduces the concept of prior-prior-year (PPY),...
