Wait too long and you could find yourself agreeing to your kid’s college choice when your pocketbook says no. To give yourself the best chance of covering college costs and avoiding debt, weigh the financial fit of a school at the same time you consider the intellectual fit and feel-say, six months to a year before your student applies. Maybe you need to turn the process around.
Take Our Quiz: Test Your Financial Aid Knowledge Then you realize you’ll have to scrounge to afford the price of admission, if you can afford it at all. In the spring, he gets accepted to the school he likes most. The whole family waits anxiously for the acceptance letters. He spends long nights and fraught weekends filling out applications. Typical scenario for parents of a high school senior: Your student identifies a half-dozen colleges he’d like to go to.
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