The Financial aid academy
Topics Covered in The Financial Aid Academy Include:
- Finding colleges that are affordable for your family
- Understanding how colleges determine a financial aid package
- Breaking down the EFC & What it means for you
- How to determine what colleges offer better aid packages
- What you can do to ensure maximizing your aid offers
- Preparing for the FAFSA and CSS Profile, What you need to know.
- FAFSA and CSS Profile completion tutorials
- Financial Aid 101, understanding the process and the different types of aid available
- How to Effectively Appeal your financial aid offers
- Reporting special circumstances such as reduced income, etc.
- How to write an Effective financial aid appeal letter and ask for more aid
- What to do if you’re selected for verification?
- Private loans and the best options when it comes to borrowing money
- How to close the financial aid gap
- How to effectively search for and find those elusive scholarships
- What you can do to ensure maximizing your financial aid
- Comparing financial aid offers
- Accepting your aid award and what comes next
- Completing your Master Promissory Note and Entrance counseling
And More!
The Financial Aid Academy Program Features Include:
- Access to a digital course/content library with new content added monthly relevant to the time of year
- Informative LIVE monthly webinars with Ms. Karen going over what you should be focused on that month
- Direct access to Ms. Karen for financial aid questions throughout the entire year via email and a private FB Group (PLUS & PRO Levels)
- Monthly roadmaps to help you stay on track and guide you month by month through the financial aid process
- Video content specific to each month’s topics
- Organized FAQs and monthly worksheets to keep you on track
- Access to a private Members-Only Facebook Group with other families going through the same process (PLUS & PRO Levels)
- Scholarship resources and links provided for you
- One-on-One consultations with Ms. Karen (PRO Level)
let The financial Aid academy help you GRADUATE DEBT-FREE!
Welcome to The Financial Aid Academy!
Financial Aid Courses for Prospective and Current College Students
There are several areas of the financial aid process that we get a ton of questions about. While we love providing one-on-one consultations, it’s our goal to help as many people as we can to get the most out of their financial aid. To get you the most important information we’ve created digital courses you can access anytime and work through multiple times as you refine your strategy and have to revisit the financial aid process each year of your university career.
Check out our range of courses that aim to help you get the absolute most out of your financial aid!
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Contact us to schedule a free consultation and learn more about how we can help you or your college-bound teen get accepted to their dream school & graduate debt-free!
FINANCIAL AID ACADEMY Webinars & Digital Courses
FAFSA + Financial Aid Academy
This is our premier Financial Aid Coaching Program to help students avoid college debt. Over the course of your student’s senior year of high school, there will be monthly live webinars with Q&A, access to an on demand digital course with new content added monthly and curated monthly scholarship resources your senior can apply for, along with a monthly roadmap and task list outlining all the things you and your student should be doing as the year goes on. This is the best way to ensure that your student graduates from college debt-free and receives the best financial aid offers possible while taking the stress out of the process and getting all your questions answered by Ms. Karen herself.
Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2024-25 Academy for Class of 2025 & their Parents.
Spots will fill up FAST so reserve yours now!
How To Get Scholarships 101
This is a really important course for students and families that know they’re going to need extra help paying for college. This class is an introduction to finding out where to find scholarships, and how to apply for them successfully. When you buy the webinar, you get unlimited access to all the valuable information in the roughly 40-minute class. This means that as you proceed through the process of applying for scholarships, you can keep checking back in and making sure you’re using the strategies and resources available to you!
FAFSA + Financial Aid Masterclass
This masterclass covers much of the information in our Financial Aid Academy, but without the interactivity and with less depth. This Course is intended for any student, parent or professional rather than just parents of HS seniors like the Academy. That said, it’s still a great crash course in all the information you need to get a great financial aid package for your college career. This has a lot of general information that will continue to be valuable to you over the course of your college career as you reapply for scholarships and other financial aid.
Financial Aid Appeal Letter Best Practices & Template
Did you know that 80% of families that appeal their financial aid offers get additional financial aid? This 40-minute workshop will walk you through the process of writing an effective appeal letter using key strategies that can get you more money.
No time to take the workshop? There's a completed appeal letter template included that you can just insert your information into, easy as 1, 2, 3! Any student can appeal their financial aid offer without having special financial circumstances. Get expert advice from Ms. Karen to improve your chances of receiving additional aid.
2023-24 FAFSA Walkthrough & Guide
This is a simple guide that translates the impenetrable jargon that makes up your FAFSA form into understandable terms and explains how to fill it out right the first time. If you’ve never filled out a FAFSA application and you just want to make sure you do it right so that you don’t make costly mistakes, this is the class for you.