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College Step-by-Step

Step 4: Decide

Help Students Choose the Right College for Them

DecideWhen families receive their financial aid award letters, they're often wondering "How much will I have to pay?" Comparing letters can be difficult. Step 4 will not only offer guidance in deciphering the letters, but it will also provide you with the steps your students need to take to confidently make their decision.

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Understanding Financial Aid Award Letters: Before You Sign on the Dotted Line Our Financial Aid Award Letters Presentation Tools provide students and families with a clear understanding of financial aid award letters and how to compare offers. The Financial Aid Award Letters 101 PowerPoint® comes with detailed speaker notes, a Sample Award Letters handout, an Award Package Comparison handout, and a Financial Aid Reference Sheet.
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It's Friday Night and You're BrokeIt's Friday Night and You're Broke is a guide that provides current and potential college students with suggestions for saving money on food, using credit cards, and keeping a budget.
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A Crash Course in CreditThe I am Just a Number: A Crash Course in Credit guide explains why credit matters, and tells readers how to build and maintain good credit.
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Your Credit. Your Life. Your Choice. Your Credit. Your Life. Your Choice. is a guide that creates awareness about credit, and provides information on how choices related to credit affect our lives.


Interactive Applications:

Budget Manager
The Budget Manager is an interactive tool that provides students with the information they need to develop and live on a budget while in college. It asks students questions about their financial situation, then helps them estimate expenses and income. The Budget Manager helps students create a budget and provides personalized and easy-to-understand advice. More importantly, it teaches students basic money management skills that are valuable throughout their lives.

Kira's Credit. Kira's Life. Kira's Choices.
Designed for high school juniors through college seniors, this interactive tool creates awareness about credit and provides information on how choices related to credit affect our lives. Through the fictional Kira's credit-related choices, students see how their own choices can lead to dramatically different debt levels.

Related Websites:

Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
A clearinghouse of financial management materials, many of which have been created for or are appropriate for high school and college students, as well as college access counselors. The clearinghouse is searchable by grade level and topic.
National Council on Economic Education
Materials and tools that encourage the development of financial management skills.
Show Me the Future
A financial literacy and life skills game from Mapping Your Future designed to help young people prepare for their real-life futures.

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