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The Debt-Free Dream: 33 Strategies That Smart Parents Use to Save $50,000-$250,000+ on College

The Debt-Free Dream: 33 Strategies That Smart Parents Use to Save $50,000-$250,000+ on College

Austin, Barbara

Paperback

Series: Great Strategies College Guides

Personal FinanceCollege GuidesTest Prep

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ISBN13: 9798999878441
Publisher: College Quest Press
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You can save $50,000. You can save $100,000. Some families save more than $250,000. Some students get a full ride. The sticker price colleges quote is a marketing anchor - and it's a lie. Behind that fiction is an ocean of merit money, financial aid strategies, and pricing levers that almost no one teaches you how to pull. Until now.

In The Debt-Free Dream, Dr. Barbara Austin shares 33 field-tested strategies - every one of them legal, every one of them proven, every one of them working right now even as federal financial aid is being severely cut. Drawn from over thirty years of guiding families through the financial aid maze, these strategies don't just save money for college. They create it.

You'll meet Howard, the dentist who once sat in his garage with his finger on the ignition, terrified of a $90,000-a-year tuition bill - and learn the exact moves that turned that bill into $28,000. You'll meet Lucinda, whose family saved more than a quarter of a million dollars and used it to buy her first home upon graduation. You'll meet students who earned full rides at top universities, who compressed four years of college into three by using AP and dual-enrollment credits strategically, and who banked their undergraduate savings to pay cash for law school and medical school.

Inside this inspiring playbook, you'll learn how to: Decode any financial aid letter in under five minutes. Identify great schools that pay not just top students to enroll, but above-average students too. Win merit scholarships that even families with strong incomes can claim. Time your assets right for the FAFSA base year. Negotiate appeals that actually work. Compress four years of college into three - without losing a thing. Build a Noah's Ark college list that protects your family financially no matter what financial aid package you're offered.

This is not a boring book. It does not scold. It does not scare. It is an interesting, inspiring playbook for students and for parents who refuse to let a college's Financial Aid Office dictate their child's future - written by a top college consultant who, for thirty years, has done what almost no one else does: getting students into top schools and getting them paid for, debt-free.

These are all her secrets. You wouldn't pay $340,000 for a car. Don't pay it for college, either.

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