What is College Funding?

First, let us tell you what college funding is NOT. College funding is not a scholarship search concept intended to match your student up with every private scholarship opportunity claiming to give "free money" for college. College funding is not a bank program urging you to borrow thousands of dollars for college at a high interest rate only to be paid back when the child graduates. College funding is a unique model of financial planning with one goal in mind: pay for college in the most constructive way possible. The process of college funding involves arranging your assets in such a way that permits your family to receive the most financial aid from both the government and the institutions. It entails looking at your family's distinctive financial situation to determine the smartest ways to pay for a college education. Every family encounters some out-of-pocket costs. Education Funding Solutions wants to work with you to keep those costs as low as possible and face the tuition bills with confidence.

A College Funding Advisor's Niche

Many working families enlist all sorts of professional advice when organizing and planning their lives. You may have a CPA for your tax preparation. You might hire a stock broker to manage your investment portfolio. You may have an attorney that handles the planning of your estate. Chances are your family does not have a personal College Funding Advisor.

Sending your children to college will be one of the largest investments you will make in your lifetime. Don't you want to assure yourself and your family that you are properly prepared?

Your Financial Picture

Education Funding Solutions wants to help your family reduce your out-of-pocket college costs. We do this by implementing strategies unique to the financial aid formula. Often, this involves taking a look at your financial profile to find areas that may need improvement before filling out financial aid applications. We work with families to develop an in-depth college funding plan, illustrating step-by-step the best scenarios to qualify for financial aid, save for retirement, establish an emergency fund, and fund college without depleting retirement savings. Most importantly, we grant families peace of mind that there is someone working hard on their side to help pay for college comfortably.

Education Funding Solutions' Form Service

In addition to creating an individualized College Funding Plan with the family's financial goals in mind, Education Funding Solutions offers an optional Form Service to take the headache and stress out of meeting financial aid deadlines and completing tedious paperwork. For an additional fee, Education Funding Solutions will perform the following services...

Electronic filing of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the College Scholarship Service Profile form required by most private institutions (an addtional fee imposed by the CollegeBoard applies), as well as the filing of Institutional Financial Aid forms required by individual schools.
Careful review of the Student Aid Report (SAR). We will update and correct any figures on the SAR if necessary.
Become an ally in the often confusing and overwhelming process of filing for financial aid!