pay for college

Do you know how to search for scholarships? ’ll never forget the day I got an email from a parent in a state of shock over college price tags. I could sense the panic in her words. She had no idea how much college cost, and more importantly how they were going to pay for it! Today we are going to talk about when and how you can start searching for scholarships and navigate college expenses and how to pay for them.

You can find links referenced in the podcast below.

Fastweb: https://www.fastweb.com/
College Board Opportunity Scholarship: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/bigfuture-scholarships
Cappex: https://www.appily.com/scholarships
FAFSA: https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa
CSS Profile: https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/

This show is for the confused college applicant and family to learn simple and effective strategies to help you find the BEST college for your student while having positive conversations. This will turn you into the College Ready applicant and family so you can be confident with your next steps and your choice of college!

You can also download our free guide on How to Start or Expand Your College Search here.  You can also follow me on social media at Confused to College Ready.

I’m Courtney Kountz and I’m looking forward to serving you and your student!

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by EVERFI.
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Research shows that each year, students leave billions of dollars in Federal Aid unclaimed. The FAFSA can feel daunting, complicated, and overwhelming at the best of times. In today’s swirl of uncertainty, the dream of college might seem completely out of reach for many students. 

It doesn’t have to be this way—educators already know the importance of empowering students with knowledge, and figuring out how to pay for college is no different. There are free resources and strategies available to demystify the FAFSA and empower students to take their financial aid into their own hands. 

Listen to Persist Nashville’s Co-founder and Director of Coaching, Kristen King, M.Ed. for a discussion about how to decode the FAFSA for your students and their families. You’ll hear strategies for increasing application completion rates in your school and get access to free digital resources that will help students understand how to responsibly and effectively finance their higher education. 

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Managing financial aid for students is a common response I get when I talk to families about their biggest challenges with the college search. How will you afford college? What is the FAFSA and how do you fill it out? Are there scholarships that aren’t just looking to send you spam emails?  Today we’re going to talk about 5 mistakes you’re making when you look at financial aid for students.  


This show is for the confused college applicant and family to learn simple and effective strategies to help you find the BEST college for your student while having positive conversations. This will turn you into the College Ready applicant and family so you can be confident with your next steps and your choice of college!

Please subscribe so you don’t miss any episodes and leave a review so others can find us! Here are a few episodes you might also be interested in:

Episode 10 College Financial Planning: How to Have Challenging Conversations with Ease

Episode 13 How to Track Your College Application Deadlines

Episode 16 College Application Timeline for Juniors: Spring and Summer Tasks

Episode 17 Visiting College Campuses: Making the Most of Your Time

Episode 18 Questions to Ask College Admissions Counselors

You can also download our free guide on How to Start or Expand Your College Search here.

I’m Courtney Kountz and I’m looking forward to serving you and your student!

Topics Discussed With a Dave Ramsey Financial Coach

Get Out of Debt

Set Up a Monthly Budget

Prepare for Retirement

Personal Finance Coaching Topic

As Leah highlights, make something visual; make yourself a vision board if you're visual. And the other thing is to give yourself like victory prices. When you figure out what 100% of your debt is, and then when you get to 25% of that is paid off. Take a hundred bucks away from your dog, that snowball, and go do something fun.

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Key points in Reaching your Financial Goals:

• Plan for the future: start saving but do your budget. Don't start saving until the debt collectors. Pay off debt collectors, then start saving for college and paying off your house in your retirement. If you look at Dave Ramsey, he's got the steps in order to do it that way. It's convenient because it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and you're done. So do it in the order.
• What would be the fastest, most efficient way to get debt taken care of?

There are lots of options. But it's most common to start with baby steps. There's the debt avalanche, the debt snowball. There's like a pay by the monthly premium payment plan. Whichever one keeps you motivated, that's the one that's going to be fastest because if you don't stay motivated, you're going to stop halfway through.

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President Johnson, Kirsten Weber and Amanda Smyser return in Part 2 of our Financial Aid and Literacy series to discuss scholarships, student employment and more.

With more than 50% of Green River students receiving financial aid, Green River College President Dr. Suzanne Johnson discusses the importance of financial literacy Kirsten Weber and Amanda Smyser in Part 1 of this series.