Publisher's Synopsis
YES! COLLEGE IS POSSIBLE! Even if you're broke!Fact: By the year 2020, an estimated 35 percent of jobs will require a bachelor's degree, minimum. Fact: Today, the average undergraduate student and their parents spend more than $24K for college every two semesters. Fact: That amount keeps rising. In How to Pay for College When You're Broke, college financial aid expert Jessica L. Brown reveals a variety of choices for post-secondary education and provides students and families detailed information on the best financial aid options to fund it: Financial Planning, FAFSA, Scholarships, Federal/Private Student Loans, How to Choose the Best Financial Aid Award Offer, Repayment Options, and much more! In addition, Brown helps you to avoid costly mistakes and scams, and she delivers strategies for post-college financial success.Are you wary you'll find this book packed with financial and legal speak? No worries! Brown simplifies it all. She also shows you exactly where and how to apply for student aid . . . as if she's working right beside you and answering your questions each step of the way. As a financial aid administrator at multiple post-secondary institutions, Jessica Brown has assisted thousands of students and parents/guardians to successfully navigate the seas of financial aid.Jessica is founder of College Gurl and www.collegegurl.com. Her mission is to ensure that students and their parents/guardians can confidently make the best-informed decisions for the students' college education.
