What We Do for You at GetCollegeFunding
What Are GetCollegeFunding's
Key Objectives In Helping Families?
- Educate your family with the facts regarding the College Funding process through free seminars in a variety of venues.
- Assess your family’s financial aid eligibility and make appropriate recommendations through a free personal assessment consultation.
- Counsel your family in order to optimize the children’s financial aid eligibility, based on need and/or merit considerations.
- Offload the task of completing your FAFSA and CSS Profile forms, thereby enabling you to focus your attention on helping your children where they need you most - preparing for their college admission.
This Page Shows 'What We Do' For You
For a comprehensive list of services, features and fees, view our Schedule of Services.
College Funding Seminar
GetCollegeFunding conducts FREE Seminars. The purpose of our seminars is to educate families with the facts of not only College Funding but every element necessary to plan properly for college. We will dispel the misconceptions and reveal the process that parents need to understand.
You can expect to learn a lot of new, relevant and ACCURATE information. Our seminars are 1-hr+ in length and are held in high schools, in our Dana Point office and at private facilities upon request. And for our non-local families all across the country, we offer live Internet-based WEBinars!
We have nothing for sale at these seminars. This is our outreach to the public. We encourage you to carve out the time from your busy schedule and take this first step in getting educated on the facts regarding College Funding and Planning. The return on your investment of time will be well worth it. Regardless of your qualification for financial aid eligibility, understanding the College Funding/Planning process is relevant for all families. What you will learn in one hour with us would take you many hours of research on your own.
- To view (and listen to) our Online Seminar - animated PowerPoint AND full audio, click here.
- For a list of Upcoming Seminars, click here for dates and locations.
- If you would like to Register Online for a seminar, click here or call our Seminar Registration Hotline at 949-226-7158.
We also offer Private Seminars for you. These are especially fun as you are learning and interacting with friends and family – and there is never a cost to you. We offer you three options:
- In our Dana Point conference facility: If you have a small group of 5 to 10 we’ll set up a private seminar just for you in our Dana Point conference facility – and remember, it's always free.
- In a facility that you provide: If you have a group of 10 or more and would like to provide a meeting place – whether it be your home, your church, a clubhouse, or any other appropriate facility – we will be glad to come to you and present our seminar, as long as you are within 50 miles of our Dana Point facility.
- If you are in a remote location (relative to our Dana Point office) and would like a group presentation, our Webinar works well for you. If you have a computer with Internet access, a projector, screen and speaker-phone, then we're in business! Gather your group together and we'll transmit our live presentation to your computer. And we'll present to your group through a tele-conference and control the video presentation from our location.
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Personal Evaluations
GetCollegeFunding offers you a FREE Personal Evaluation in our Dana Point office to help you prepare for your family's College Funding. And even after your student is in college, if you have any questions or concerns about College Funding, we'll continue to be here for you. For families outside southern California, read about our Tele-Consultations below.
Our Personal Evaluation typically lasts from 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the complexity of your family's profile. The purpose of the Personal Evaluation is to provide you with an assessment of your family’s College Funding situation. You can expect to leave with an accurate assessment and understanding of your financial aid eligibility and any potential of reducing your Expected Family Contribution (out-of-pocket costs).
It’s necessary that you’ve previously attended a seminar or WEBinar. And we need both parents to attend the Personal Evaluation. It's far more effective when both are involved.
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You Can Expect The Following Results
From Your Personal Evaluation
- EFC Analysis – Analysis of your family’s eligibility for 'need-based' financial aid at public and private colleges. You'll receive a report showing you your EFC calculations - both FM and IM. The report will reveal 'best-case' and 'worst-case' scenarios for your family's EFC. We'll tell you if there’s anything you can do before filing the financial aid forms that may reduce your EFC.
- Financial Aid Statistics – We will review the concept of financial aid statistics that we discuss in our seminars. These statistics reveal to some families that it may cost less money out of pocket to send their child to some of the more expensive private schools!
- College Data - You will receive a College Data Report on the school of your choice. This report includes Admissions, Financial, Academic, Extracurricular Activities, General Information, and Contact Data and detailed statistics regarding the school.
- Q&A – Bring all of those unanswered college funding questions with you and ask away! We are here to help you in any way we can.
Even If You're Outside The Southern California Area
We Want You To Receive The Benefit Of A Personal Evaluation:
We Offer You A 'Tele-Consultation'
We would love to meet you in person, but if this isn’t possible because of location or schedule constraints, we will gladly set up a free 1-hour Tele-Consultation instead. There's no need to be concerned that your Tele-Consultation will be any less effective than meeting in person – because it won’t, thanks to technology! You'll log onto a proprietary area of our website dedicated for Tele-Consultations, so you'll see the same materials and have the same evaluation as those families that come into our office.
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Professional Services
We offer a wide range of professional services for families who want to utilize our expertise - as well as that of our Advisory Team - in order to properly plan for college in a comprehensive manner.
If you decide to engage with any of these services, even our "Getting Started" package, we'll get started right away in preparing your personalized 'College Funding & Planning Guide' and then we'll meet again within a week or two to begin the program. This exclusive Guide is available only through GetCollegeFunding and reflects the expertise and attention to detail that you'll come to expect from us. The contents of our College Funding Planning Guide are listed further down on this page.
We want to emphasize that in no way will you ever feel pressured into engaging with ANY of our professional services. The primary mission of GetCollegeFunding, Inc. is to provide a public benefit to families by way of education and counsel. We encourage families to utilize GetCollegeFunding at whatever level they need us. You will never feel pressured by anyone on our staff to 'sign up' for anything!
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Here's A Glimpse Of What's Included In Our Exclusive
'College Funding & Planning Guide'
- Personal EFC Analysis – Extensive calculation and breakdown of your Expected Family Contribution using both the Federal and Institutional Methodologies. This will provide you with an 'early look' at your EFC, which is the foundation for needs-based financial aid. The earlier you know your EFC, the better. Also included is a 'What-If' Report, showing the breakout of EFC due to Income and EFC due to assets.
- College Cost Analysis - Average out-of-pocket cost for your student's selected colleges. This will provide you with a detailed "needs analysis" including average financial aid statistics as well as college statistics that are important for merit considerations.
- College Research - Individual 2-page reports on all the colleges your family is evaluating. These reports address in detail the following categories: Admissions, Financial, Academic, Extracurricular Activities, General Information, and Contact Data. Included is information such as: Admissions Procedure, Freshman Class Profile, Expenses, Scholarships and Grants, Student Employment, Instructional Faculty statistics, Degree Offerings, Facilities, Housing, and much more.
- Guide to College Funding – A comprehensive document, this guide covers it all – EFC, need-based aid, merit-based aid, grants, loans, work study, sources of aid, tax considerations, financial aid forms, professional judgment, graduate students, a glossary of terms, and more.
- Your Next Step – Proprietary "10-Step Checklist" that will guide your family through our Comprehensive College Planning process, and a College Planning Timeline designed by Mr. Eric Goodhart showing month-by-month the 20 critical milestones beginning in the summer leading into the junior year of high school.
- and much more . . .
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This service is included with several or our service packages. There’s no way around the paperwork! The purpose of this critical part of our service is to assure that your financial aid forms are completed accurately and submitted on time. Here’s what it includes:
- FAFSA and CSS Profile Forms – Completion on your behalf for up to 20 colleges. You can rest assured that your financial aid forms will be completed with impeccable accuracy and timeliness.
- School-Specific Financial Aid Forms – Required by many private colleges in addition to the standardized forms. Unlike the FAFSA and CSS Profile Forms, an electronic signature is not allowed, so we will provide all the support you require in order to accurately complete.
- Awards Review – Analysis of all financial aid awards your student receives and evaluations for fairness. We will evaluate the award based on a needs-based analysis and your student's merit.
- Financial Aid Appeals – In the event of an inappropriate or unfair award, we will offer advice, strategies and coaching as necessary to optimize your ability to leverage a better award through the appeals process.
- Student & Parent Education Loan Applications – We will explain all of your options regarding education loans, both student and parent. You can rely on us for accurate and up-to-date information on current interest rates and payment terms - and will share with you the pros and cons of every option facing you. We will review the loan process and provide any guidance you may need through the completion of application forms.
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Now that you have a good sense of who we serve, how we work and what
services we provide, read About Us to learn more about the people
at GetCollegeFunding who would like to work with you