• Navigate financial aid with confidence
• Identify practical ways to reduce the cost of college
• Understand how colleges build financial aid packages
• Maximize the free money (grants and scholarships) awarded by the college
• Take control of college costs

The 2023 Edition is fully updated for the 2023-24 school year and includes a chapter that prepares families for the big changes coming to the FAFSA and college financial aid in the 2024-25 school year.

Authors Elizabeth Walter and Debra Thro were concerned about the abundance of confusing, conflicting, and misleading college financial aid information that exists, how stressful college financial planning can be, and how so many families are blindsided by the amount of money they must come up with when college financial aid letters arrive. There had to be a better way.

After extensive research, Walter and Thro sifted out the most meaningful, relevant, and often overlooked college financial aid information that is invaluable to college-bound families. This eye-opening, no-nonsense book is packed with user-friendly guidance and reveals a host of strategies that can help anyone save real money on overall college costs.