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The Financial Aid Handbook is the only book families need to find the right college at the right price.This completely revised, up-to-date edition builds on the success of the original -- the definitive, one-stop guide to the college selection and payment process, covering everything from basic timelines and tuition costs to predicting your scholarship award from colleges and taking ownership of student debt after graduation.Updated to reflect the most recent changes in federal processes and timelines and including new chapters for undocumented and homeless students, this revised edition is a must-have for high school students and their parents.The Financial Aid Handbook features straightforward language, engaging explanations, and hundreds of tips to maximize your financial aid -- the scholarship funds that come from colleges themselves.



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Carol Stack

Carol Stack is the former Director of Admissions at Macalester College and Augsburg College.

For the past 15 years, Stack has worked as a principal at Hardwick-Day, an enrollment consulting firm that works with the admissions and financial aid offices of private colleges and universities.

Through Hardwick-Day, she has consulted on financial aid policy at dozens of colleges, including Whittier, Grinnell, Mills, St. Olaf, the University of Puget Sound, Reed College, and Oberlin, among others.

She has two children, one dog, and one husband. Although she is an avid fisherwoman, she never learned how to clean a fish. That way, she'll never have to.



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