Confused about how to pay for college?

Get help here at the only site on the web where you can:

• Read real college financial aid award letters.


• Decode confusing (and sometimes misleading) loan and scholarship information.


• Translate financial aid jargon and acronyms into plain English.


• Get great tips on raising extra college cash, cutting costs, and making that degree more affordable.


• Find out why you deserve clear and complete cost information, and why colleges aren't delivering it.

This is just the beginning. Please keep coming back, as we plan to add more letters, more financial aid information and more advice.