Ay, yi, yi. The costs of college tuition are going through the roof! In 5 years, we're going to be paying for that college tuition. Oldest Princess wants to go to Princeton or Harvard. Can we say ka-ching? We're going to be looking at having to get a Federal parent loan for most of her education.

I'm really loving that we now have the internet as a resource to look things up. Financialaid.com not only tells about loans in layman's terms, it even has a scholarship finder with over 8,000 programs totaling over $35 million! I remember looking over the bulletin board in high school searching for the few slips of paper with the names of scholarships I might actually qualify for. A website like financialaid.com is a wonderful site to help in that search.

From what I remember about my experience with financial aid, everything was on a schedule. This form was due this time, make sure you turned this one in by this date, and don't forget to get this one postmarked by this date. Ugh, deadlines!! I had to make lists to make sure I didn't miss that one important deadline. Now you can find financial aid timelines right here on the internet. What a stress reliever! Go check out www.financialaid.com and bookmark it like I already have. If you've got kids, you're going to need this website!

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