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Provides more than one thousand practical, effective strategies and ideas to help students and parents pay for college, discussing scholarships, reward programs, tax breaks, internships, and other options.

This thoroughly revised guide shows readers long- and short-term strategies to funding a college education. It includes the latest financial-aid forms and scholarship information, along with lists of annual changes in the tax laws.

Lists expenses and average financial aid award amounts at over two thousand colleges and universities in the U.S., covering freshman and undergraduate financial aid, need- and non-need-based gift aid, loans, work-study, and athletic awards; and provides financial aid application details and contact information. Also includes general financial aid guidance, a chart comparing costs at the colleges profiled, and profiles of state scholarship and grant programs.

Presents a guide to paying for college, providing information on how to find financial aid, how to choose the best financial aid package, how to save for college, how to make college cheaper, and how to avoid financial aid scams.

Provides advice for prospective African-American college students, including one hundred profiles of mainstream and historically black colleges, hundreds of scholarship sources, tips on admissions, sample essays, Internet resources, and other related help.

Offers advice on how to apply for financial aid, features step-by-step instructions for filling out a simplified FAFSA form, and looks at the financial aid profiles of some three thousand colleges, universities, and technical schools.