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If you snooze, you lose. Now is the time to find a summer enrichment course for your elementary, middle and/or high school student. Colleges have made their plans. Now it’s time to make yours. Families who do the research, and find summer enrichment courses for their children in colleges and universities will end up paying less for college. Yes, that’s right. Scholarships are awarded to students who have taken college enrichment courses at a much higher rate than those who have not.

Last week I received a catalogue in the mail from my local community college. It was entitled College for Kids. It contains over 40 pages of courses aimed at children from 3 to 18. There are classes for every type of child, and dozens of subjects. These programs exist in universities too. Just look online. These programs look fabulous on college and scholarship applications.  

The prices range from not very much to lots more, but they’re nowhere near what college courses will run after high school graduation. But if you don’t want or can’t spend money right now, there are free programs at many colleges and universities. Greenlight has a list of hundreds of free college courses for summer 2018 at, Summer Programs with Financial Aid. Check them out, find what your child will enjoy, apply. These classes will add the most important item to his/her college scholarship application, summer college enrichment courses.

You are reading from the blog, RoadtoFreeCollege.com, where we empower families with knowledge to navigate the path to higher education without the burden of excessive loans.

 

For more information, you’ll want my book, Free College, CLICK HERE. It teaches families how to help their kids become more successful in school, college, and life.

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Why Is College Tuition So High?

The general public may believe colleges are flush with cash, but this is not the case. Although the cost of tuition is almost five times as high as it was thirty years ago, college professors are paid far less than they were in the past (when adjusted for inflation). So why is tuition so high?

The answer is simple. Public universities are now receiving far less money from state governments. State funding has dropped over 37% in the last two decades. Although colleges now receive more money from the federal government than the state, the overall amount is much less than in the past. Much of the federal money is in the form of grants to students. It passes from the federal treasury to state institutions and then back to the college through student grants.

We all know every time money changes hands, some of it is used moving it from place to place (employees, computers, building, etc.). Wouldn’t it make more sense if public education covered students from pre-k through college or trade schools? It would be a more efficient way to educate our young, release more cash for educating students and unburden families. It would also put more cash into the nation’s economy.

Since this doesn’t look like it’s going to happen any time soon, families need to find another way to pay for educating children after high school. Scholarships and grants are the only solutions until politicians start thinking long term. 

After realizing all my students were not only going to college, but also receiving scholarships and/or grants, I did a study to learn which strategies worked best. My new book, Free College, explains what parents and grandparents can do to help their children become ideal college scholarship and grant applicants. No one should be in debt for the rest of their lives in order to earn a college degree. Although I don’t have the authority to make college tuition free, by writing my book, I hope to help students graduate from college debt free.

You are reading from the blog, RoadtoFreeCollege.com, where we empower families with knowledge to navigate the path to higher education without the burden of excessive loans.

 

For more information, you’ll want my book, Free College, CLICK HERE . It teaches families how to help their kids become more successful in school, college, and life.

 

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