The College Planning Blog

Hi Guys,

Last week, The Wall Street Journal carried a story, “Harvard’s Endowment Drops 22% in 4 Months.”

It seems that even the mighty Harvard isn’t immune to the woes afflicting the financial markets. Harvard announced that it would curtail spending and look at other ways to cut costs.

The Harvard endowment, the biggest of any university, stood at $36.9 billion as of June 30, meaning the loss amounts to about $8 billion. That’s more than the entire endowments of all but six colleges, according to the latest official tally.

It’s unconfirmed, but I have it on good word that they’ve taken the drastic steps of suspending their afternoon teas at the Harvard Club!

It’s unclear what effect our recession will have on grants, scholarships and other financial aid at colleges across the U.S.

Here’s the good news:  so far, many institutions have indicated that they will do everything possible to maintain, or even increase, student aid!

If you have a student who will be enrolled in college anytime between now and the next few years, you need to roll up your sleeves, dig in and research which schools are offering money.  You also should identify the colleges that are not doling out the dollars anymore.

Yes, some schools have more money than others.

Wouldn’t you like to know who has what BEFORE your student applies?

Attend one of our final college funding workshops next week and I promise you’ll learn a heckuva lot of “inside” information that you’ll never find out anywhere else.  Info that you can use to save tens of thousands of dollars in college costs.

http://s2198.collegeplanningwebsystem.com/events

Best,

Jeremy

P.S.  These are our final workshops this year. If you have a senior in high school, you are on “life support”

when it comes to college funding. It’s now or never.

P.P.S.  I was kidding about the teas.

Jeremy Farmer

Co-Host, “College Planning Power Hour” Sundays at 5PM on 1070AM

Check our FREE college funding workshop schedule (space is very limited):

http://s2198.collegeplanningwebsystem.com/events

Hey Guys,

I have to say that we were completely overwhelmed with the response from yesterday’s radio show. The College Planning Power Hour is on Sundays at 5PM on 1070AM.

College insiders have resumed their radio show, giving parents priceless advice to help them save thousands.

While they’ve saved thousands of families too much money to count, local college planning experts say that’s not going nearly far enough. After speaking in front of tens of thousands of parents over the last five years local college planning experts will begin broadcasting their message using 10,000 watts of power since, as Jeff Farmer says, “One man can only shout so loudly, we need to get the word out that people can save more on college.”

If you have never had the privilege to see Jeff, Jeremy, or Brannon in person conduct one of their famous and controversial college planning workshops, this week is your chance. They are making personal appearances at 2 workshops this week at 7:00 PM at the Sugar Land Library, 550 Eldridge in Sugar Land, and the Cypress Creek Community Center and Church (open to the public), 6823 Cypresswood Drive in Spring.

“We have the perfect storm brewing right now, a tanking stock market, an economy in a recession, and a record number of applicants creating the most difficult college admissions in history. However, for millions of families the need to send a student to college is not going away. It’s shocking that so many parents won’t even be able to afford for their kids to go to school in the next few years, so many good students won’t be able to go, and many students will have to drop out, unless they know the inside information that the colleges don’t want given out,” says Jeremy Farmer. He then adds, “It’s not even a matter of affording the best school….it’s being able to have ANY money left at all these days. Brannon Lloyd was astonished when he first started talking to parents and realized how much bad information was floating around-some of it in the media, “It’s amazing how many parents are desperate for this kind of information. I really don’t know what to say, except that I’m totally blown away.”

The College Planning Power Hour broadcasts Live on KNTH AM 1070 Sundays from 5-6pm.

To register or view other dates, please click here.

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