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Every fall, high school seniors face multi-tasking overload – handling their studies and extra-curricular activities while visiting, selecting, and applying to a handful of colleges. Even more daunting is the task for families preparing to pay for tuition, room and board, books, and other living expenses for the college-bound freshmen when they go off to [...]
New environment, new friends, new classes and new responsibilities are all things teenagers experience when they enter their first year of college. After 18 years of depending on you, their newfound independence forces them to get organized to not only succeed, but to survive. When preparing for the big move to living on campus, it’s [...]
From time to time we compile the best of our Parent eSource posts on particular topics and make them available for our readers. Today we’re featuring the top four posts from our contributing authors on Children and Divorce. Guidelines for a Divorced Parent in Getting Financial Aid [Part 1 & 2] by Lisa C. Decker, CDFA [...]
This is the second and final post in our series on helping parents understand the Financial Aid process for divorced parents. Part one can be found here. Thank you so much for asking me to answer your readers questions about college financial aid and how it is affected by divorce. I’m Lisa C. Decker, a [...]
This is part one in a two part series on helping divorced parents understand the Financial Aid Process. Thank you so much for asking me to answer your readers questions about college financial aid and how it is affected by divorce. I’m Lisa C. Decker, a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and I have a Teleseminar [...]
There is nothing worse than coming home from school and finding a small, white envelope addressed to you from the college of your choice. Your heart stops as you slowly open the letter. Everything is a blur after you read the fateful words “we regret to inform you …” Rejection in any form is difficult [...]