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For high school seniors: It's loan season and if you need to borrow to pay for college, we're here to help you understand the process. Download our FREE loan calculator.
For everyone: Our monthly listing of scholarships with June deadlines gives your student options to find free money. Prepaid 529 tuition plans are still a viable options whether your student is a freshen or senior in high school. And check out our Facebook Lives, each one always recorded to watch whenever you have time. |
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Let’s play word a word association game…we say “June,” and you say…”scholarships,” right??
That’s probably not top of mind for most people in June, but our latest list of scholarships (with June deadlines) is out, and there’s over $52K to be had right there, so perhaps you should make the connection. Here’s the link. |
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| Compare Rates Among Lenders
If you need to borrow money to pay for college, now is the time to gather as much information as you can before you're pressed to make a decision of where to borrow.
Use the links below to get prequalified and/or submit an application to find out the interest rate you'll receive. If you do all your loan shopping (including submitting applications), within a 30 day window, the credit bureaus do not penalize your credit score for submitting applications to multiple lenders. |
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CommonBond I 3.74% - 12.22% *
LendKey I 5.04% - 9.47%*
College Ave I 4.07% - 11.32%*
Citizens Bank I 4.45% - 12.42%*
Sallie Mae I 4.25% - 11.35%*
*Variable rates, fixed rates may vary. |
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Planning ahead for your children’s education can make a world of
difference. The optimum result is to find investment/savings tools to help make college tuition more affordable.
Prepaid 529 plans, where you purchase “tomorrow’s tuition at today’s prices,” are one of the ways to do so. And you don’t need a lot of cash to start. Learn more about them here. |
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Where We've Been On The Road...
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A student loan may not always be part of the picture when planning for
college, however for many families, borrowing student loans is the reality.
Angela Colatriano of College Ave Student Loans recently sat down and unraveled the Student Loan world for us. If you are at all considering this financing option, you owe it to yourself to watch the video. |
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Interested in learning EVEN MORE about 529 Plans? (We thought you’d never ask!)
Join us and Bob Cole, President of Private College 529, for a Facebook Live on…wait for it…5/29 (that’s May 29, for all you sleepy-heads), when we discuss “What Are Prepaid College Tuition Plans and Are They Right for You?” Check it out at 8:30pm (EST).
Get a text reminder by signing up here. |
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We're making sure you don't miss the opportunity to have some "brew" in the morning. Many of our readers signed up and they are now getting smarter on the "buzz" from Wall St. to Silicon Valley every morning.
The Morning Brew delivers news in a smart and clever way—very easy to “gulp down.” (You see what we’re doing here, right?)
Get your kids to sign up as well, since knowing about what’s going on in the world of finance can’t hurt. You can sign up here.
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| Debbie Schwartz Founder, Road2College I'm a parent, like many of you, navigating college admissions and paying for college. With an expertise in personal finance, analysis, and marketing, I'm working to give families the information and tools to make smarter financial college decisions. |
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