{"id":654,"date":"2019-02-16T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2019-02-24T21:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T03:40:48","slug":"soaring-college-costs-addressed-in-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/soaring-college-costs-addressed-in-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring College Costs Addressed in Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Graduation-Cap-Toss.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-655\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\"\/><figcaption>Can You Afford To Get Your Child To Graduation?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Virtually everyone in the USA knows how expensive the\nsoaring college costs are and how much pressure they put on the average\nfamily.&nbsp;&nbsp; The process of applying for\nfinancial aid is draining on the parents, the student and also takes an\nenormous amount of resources for the colleges and universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MC2 Wealth Management hosted this seminar to show parents a\nfew of the tricks that can be used to obtain more financial aid.&nbsp; They also demonstrated how applying to a more\nexpensive university can sometimes result in a lower out-of-pocket payment for\nthe parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most interesting aspects of the presentation was\nthat the manner of calculating the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) was\nsusceptible to manipulation by the manner in which you hold your assets.&nbsp; There are many ways to plan for college and\nthe hosts were able to demonstrate how getting an early start on the planning\nprocess allows you to get the best financial aid resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the most useful part of the presentation was the\nconcept of negotiating with the college.&nbsp;\nIt seems that though the schools will give you a commitment for a\ncertain amount of financial aid, that the student always has the possibility of\nrequesting additional support.&nbsp; Though\nthe schools do not want it perceived that they negotiate&#8221;, what they really do\nis evaluate&#8221; the needs of the student and make an adjustment&#8221; if needed to\nget that child to attend the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key takeaway is that early planning is the key.&nbsp; Get the facts, start understanding the system\nearly, and start preparing for the enormous expense that can result, especially\nwith poor planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you going to be able to afford the skyrocketing costs of sending your child to college?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,309],"tags":[382,384,6,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}