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Desert Christian High School Workshop

Title: Desert Christian High School WorkshopLocation: 44662 15th Street West, Lancaster, CA 93534Link out: Click hereDescription: ***This workshop is for Desert Christian High School Parents and Students ONLY***Start Time: 7:00PMDate: 2010-09-30End Time: 8:30PM

Application Boot Camp

Title: Application Boot Camp Location: COC University CenterLink out: Click hereDescription: *****For CPEI clients only***** Seniors and Transfer Students Must Attend What your student can expect: • What to include in your application, and what to leave out • Admission essay tips • Letters of recommendation: Who? How? When? • Understanding your SAT scores • Interview tips We will also make sure the kids are well fed throughout the day. What your student should bring: • A list of the schools they will be applying to • High school transcripts (Unofficial copy, they can request one from counselor) • SAT (College Board web site print out) • All of your questions – help them come up with a few, you most likely have some as…

Chatsworth Library Workshop

Title: Chatsworth Library WorkshopLocation: 21052 Devonshire St. Chatsworth CA 91311Link out: Click hereStart Time: 12:15Date: 2010-10-02End Time: 13:45

Chatsworth Library Workshop

Title: Chatsworth Library WorkshopLocation: 21052 Devonshire St. Chatsworth CA 91311Link out: Click hereStart Time: 10:15Date: 2010-10-02End Time: 11:45

Platt Library Workshop

Title: Platt Library WorkshopLocation: 23600 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA 91367Link out: Click hereStart Time: 10:30Date: 2010-09-25End Time: 12:00

La Cresenta Library

Title: La Cresenta LibraryLocation: 2809 Foothill Blvd La Crescenta CA 91214Link out: Click hereStart Time: 18:15Date: 2010-09-22End Time: 19:45

La Canada Library

Title: La Canada LibraryLocation: 4545 N Oakwood Ave. La Canada CA 91011Link out: Click hereStart Time: 18:15Date: 2010-09-21End Time: 19:45

La Pintoresca Branch Library Workshop

Title: La Pintoresca Branch Library WorkshopLocation: 1355 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena CA 91101Link out: Click hereStart Time: 10:30Date: 2010-09-25End Time: 12:00

Sylmar High School Workshop

Title: Sylmar High School WorkshopLocation: 13050 Borden Ave Sylmar, CA 91342Link out: Click hereDescription: **This workshop is for Sylmar High School Parents Only**Start Time: 18:30Date: 2010-09-16End Time: 20:00

COC University Center Workshop

Title: COC University Center WorkshopLocation: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355Link out: Click hereStart Time: 18:30Date: 2010-10-07End Time: 20:00

Stuart Siegal, Financial Aid Director

The financial aid system is complicated. Depending on circumstances it could be less or more so. Can it be aggravating? Yes. Is it sometimes frustrating? Absolutely. What can anyone expect from a 40-year-old federal bureaucracy? Be that as it may, if you don’t have at least a working knowledge of how aid is awarded and to whom, I can practically guarantee you will pay more than you might otherwise.

I’ve been in your shoes before. 25 years ago when I was getting ready to send my oldest child to college, I didn’t know how to navigate the financial aid process any more than you do now. After spending 30+ hours trying to figure it out on my own, I sent in the forms, only to be let down by the amount my daughter received. And back then the cost of a college like Wellesley in Massachusetts was about $33,000 all in. That was a lot of money! Twenty-four years later it’s now $81,000. All of the colleges are almost three times what they used to be in 1997.

Fortunately, I was a licensed financial planner and buried myself in books and thousands of pages of financial aid rules and regulations. And I have to admit learning over ten thousand pages of congressional language (Higher Education Reauthorization Act of 1965 and subsequent updates) was painful. But I learned more than enough to win more money for my other two and that made up for what I lost on Child #1.

Over a few years of study, I learned from financial aid professionals, admissions counselors, and others to earn a reputation as THE Financial Aid Negotiator. From then on, I started doing for others exactly what I did for myself. I learned how to unlock tens of thousands of dollars–dollars that I thought were out of reach for families like mine. After a quarter of a century, my peers and clients have come to see me as ‘the’ financial aid experts expert.

During those years 25 years, I’ve helped tens of thousands of families navigate the financial aid process and access millions of dollars in free aid.

Just as I’ve done for more than 104,000 families, I can help you get more free money for your child and even show you how to pay next to nothing for college if you want to go that route. I can’t guarantee you the same kind of success most of our clients have enjoyed. Some of it is up to you. To get what you want have to participate. We provide you with the information, advice, and tools to get through this thing relatively unscathed.