Ep 6: Evaluating Your Financial Aid Package + Scholarship Strategies

Getting In: Your College Admissions Companion

Host Julie Lythcott-Haims and Getting In expert

Josh Steckel talk financial aid, scholarship strategies, plus they hear

an update from Getting In senior August Graves. Josh is the college counselor at the

Brooklyn School for Collaborative studies. He's also the author of Hold

Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a

Life Beyond Poverty. Josh lists the most important things seniors and

their families need to be doing right now if they're applying for financial

aid. And they still have time if they haven't yet. He explains how to compare

different schools' aid packages and how to figure out the net price. When it

comes to finding scholarship money, Josh says to think locally. Religious

groups, unions, non-profits, even law firms are a great source of scholarship

funds. Julie and Josh answer a multi-part listener

question about financial aid. The father who wrote in wonders how to find out a

college's true cost and asks how he should honestly talk about affordability with

his daughter. Online resources mentioned in the show: Gates MillenniumJackie Robinson FoundationPosse FoundationFastwebScholarsnappCollege GreenlightRaise.MeCollege Score Card Find us on Twitter: @GettingInPodSend us an email or voice memo--to [e-mail], call our hotline and leave a message at (929)

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