How Parents Can Play The Financial Aid Game For Keeps And Win Big

If you're the parent of a college age child, your primary goal should be how to best minimize what you are going to spend on your child's education for retirement purposes and maximizing your child's financial aid package.

Unfortunately most parents think that the colleges will support their lifestyle. While it is true that there is a fair amount of free scholarship money to be given out in the private sector (private scholarships), your focus should be to try to maximize your financial aid package, and minimizing what you are going to have to contribute.

What You SHOULD NOT Do:

• You should not take financial aid or FAFSA advice from someone just because they sent their child to college and received some form of financial aid. Never mind how much they got… how much didn't they get? Every student is unique, and every parent's income and assets are different.
• You should not get involved with a scholarship scam company.
• You should not think the financial aid process is easy and you can just complete all the various financial aid forms and everything will turn out ok. College is far too expensive to leave anything to chance.
• You should not make any mistakes on the FAFSA or CSS Profile.

You Have Three Options:

1. You can become a financial aid expert.
2. You can hire an expert financial aid consultant.
3. Your can lose money and spend countless hours with countless financial aid forms and applications.

How You Can Guarantee You'll Receive Every Penny Of Financial Aid You Are Entitled To:

As financial aid consultants we complete both the CSS PROFILE* and FAFSA for you. Hiring a professional financial aid consultant prevents you from being a CSS PROFILE or FAFSA casualty or what some call a victim of the financial aid system. In fact, as financial aid consultants we complete virtually all the financial aid forms and applications for you.

• Providing you with accurate and consistent answers on each and every form, reducing your chance of a financial aid audit or verification proceedings.
• Protecting you from listing your non-includable assets on any form that can artificially inflate the amount the schools and federal government want you to pay.
• Reporting only your assets and investments that need to be disclosed by law, sheltering your other assets and prevent you from going deeper into debt.
• Saving you 25 to 50 hours of homework and paperwork with such things as the CSS PROFILE registration, the CSS PROFILE Application, the FAFSA Stafford loan form, the PLUS

How A Financial Aid Consultant Can Determine If You Received The Best Financial Aid Offer Possible.

The information you need to evaluate your financial aid package is difficult to find and the process of analyzing the data is painful and time consuming. This one area of analyzing your financial aid award is time consuming and difficult, but it must be done! If you're not willing to make this commitment do yourself a favor and hire a professional financial aid consultant otherwise you could be just throwing money away.

• You breakdown and spreadsheet each financial aid award letter and determine if the financial aid is in the form of self-help or gift aid and ratio.
• You evaluate your schools historical average of awarding financial to families with similar means as yours.
• You Factor in your students position in the admitting class.
• You determine your award equity.
• You engage the appeal process and petition for the appropriate financial aid package.

Hiring a financial aid consultant may prove invaluable, since the department of education tells us that 95% of the fafsa forms are filled out incorrectly. It is important that you complete either the FAFSA and CSS Profile correctly the first time or you may not receive all the financial aid you are entitled to.

Are you a parent who's concerned about completing the financial aid forms and how to pay for college?

The Insider's Financial Aid FastTrack Program provides all U.S Citizens and eligible aliens with personalized assistance to help insure they receive all the financial aid they are eligible for. The Financial Aid FastTrack Program provides the complete solution for those parents and students worried about how they're going to pay for college without going broke. The Financial Aid FastTrack was designed to help parents easily afford to send their children to college at a fee everyone can afford. The Financial Aid FastTrack Program is available for far less then fees charged by profit driven commercial companies.

If you have any questions about the Financial Aid FastTrack Program and how your very own personal financial aid consultant can save you both time and money be sure and contact us.

*CSS/Profile is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does note endorse this product.