New Financial Aid Tips Parents Need To Know

PARENT yo==— New Financial Aid Tips Parents Need To Know (NAPSA)—Securing financial aid for college is one of the biggest financial challenges a family will face. Fortunately for parents and future students, a new book shows how the “college financial aid gameis really played.” In the book “College Financial Aid ‘Exposed”(Professional Press, $19.95), expert and author David Jaffe offers a number of new tips designed to help families dramatically reduce their children’s college costs. COLLEGE™ FINANCIAL __ fib “EXPOSED” How Private Colleges mislead, intimidate and entrap parents into losing their home equity and retirement savings to pay for college and HOW TO AVOIDIT. David Jaffe ) A new bookclaims to show parents how thecollege financial aid gameis really played. For example: He warns that money in a “529” college savings plan is deducted from a student’s financial aid. Jaffe points out that parents who are separated may actually be able to double a child’s financial aid. He also contends that applying for early decision at a college is the financial aid “kiss of death.” Jaffe is the president of College Pursuit, a New York-based college financial-aid consulting firm. He’s appeared on NBC and CNBC, been quoted in The New York Times and is the author of “The New College Financial Aid System.” To learn more or to order the book,visit collegeaidguide.info.