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College Savings

College Money—Easy Search

When John, our oldest son, was starting his college career, we did our early research for scholarships in the public library reference section. We pored over huge volumes of The College Bluebook – Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants and Loans. We took copious notes and made numerous copies of pertinent pages. Later, we found free web sites to aid us in our search and provide custom-tailored information. These cut our search time immensely.

Scholarship Money Starts Here

Financial Aid — get thousands even now

FAFSA Free Application for Federal Student Aid www.fafsa.ed.gov. This is a two step process: First you'll also want to register for PIN number, which will take a few days to receive—do that at this web site FAFSA Pin Number.

Second, You'll need income tax and savings information for the student and parents. Allow about 90 minutes to complete the online application. The deadline is September 15.

College Classes - How to find Quality Instruction

With the average college class costing anywhere between $185 at community colleges to $900 at some universities, you've got to be sure you get your money's worth. You are purchasing a service, so get the best quality you can.

We do several things to ensure that our kids find instructors who have a passion for what they are teaching and have the ability to communicate well with their students.

1) Ask around Our kids ask other students who the best instructors are.

Discount Books, Music and Movies

save on college, textbooks, text books, no debt

We love books at our house — we have over 3000 of them; and we love music — it's constantly playing — we have several hundred cds, even more mp3s and even some LPs.

While we love music and books, we don't love paying full price for them.

College Text Book Savings

A subscriber to the web site sent in a great tips for saving money on college text books.