october 4, 2003

from:    barry simmons
author: "how to send your child to college for free or close to it"

dear parent,

i'm sure you're not very different from me.

for most of us, the initial exposure to sending our children to college can be a daunting experience at best.

and for those of us who can't afford to send our child to the university they deserve, there's also quite a bit of disappointment.

i'd like you to look at parts of two chapters in my book about how this book came about. it won't cost you anything to read. i promise.

how this book was born

during the latter part of 2000, when the economy started to turn sour, my computer business started to soften.

with the tragic events of 9/11, many of the opportunities i had relied on in the wall street area disappeared.

to make matters worse, this was the same time that my son was about to start applying to college.

i started out writing this guide because i was overwhelmed by information about how i could afford to send my son to college.

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every college web site provided almost the same financial aid information.

they took me to the same sites.

they offered me the same advice.

when my son went to his high school guidance counselor, he took home over two-dozen magazines and newsletters.

together we spent months on the internet and one day realized that a government guide, written by the u.s. department of education, answered dozens of our questions.

we also purchased a popular book that walked us through the process of filling out the popular css profile and fafsa financial aid forms.

days later we found the same advice on the internet.

but what i discovered was that not everything you need to know to finance your child's education is out there on the internet.

i spent months speaking to financial aid officers at many universities and discovered that just filling out the css profile and fafsa financial aid forms and meeting some deadlines is only half the battle in acquiring federal pell grants, college need-based grants, and federal stafford and perkins loans.

knowing the right questions to ask, and knowing who to ask led me to information not available through the high school guidance counselors or the many web sites of the colleges my son applied to.

that is how this book was born.

this is not a large cumbersome book.

this is an interactive guide.

a kind of cookbook with parents and students in mind so you don't have to hire a 'professional' college financial aid planner and pay an exorbitant fee to tell you where to go to apply for college financial aid or find great college scholarships to supplement whatever the aid does not cover.

i'm not going to repeat everything that's already out there, but i will tell you where it is and give you the direct web links to where you need to go to get free money for college.

so how did i write this book?

i scoured the internet.

i contacted college financial aid officers throughout the united states.

i read many of the 'so called' college 'financial aid experts' and spent months taking notes.

those are the notes that i have fashioned into this interactive guide.

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i'll come right to the point!!!

i will also give you insight into why different colleges receiving the same financial information from you (fafsa form, css profile form, personal and business tax returns, etc.) put together college financial aid packages with awards that are significantly different.

and that insight will come from the college financial aid officers themselves.

i am by no means an expert on college financial aid.

i am merely a father who has become an expert on where to find college financial aid out of necessity.

you'll be surprised at what i've found.

"an interactive guide like this does not exist anywhere; i was absolutely blown away. using the techniques i found in barry simmons' book, i was able to send my son to college with virtually no money. i mean almost none!!! the way in which i was taken by the hand and led through the bureaucracy of financial aid forms, federal grants and loans, and a sea of web sites literally saved me months. if i had this book when my daughter went to college, i not only would have saved thousands of dollars, she would have gone to the university she wanted ". ken c. spring valley, n.y.

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here are just some of the amazing secrets, tips and techniques this book will teach you:

  how to unravel the maze of college and financial aid web sites and show you in a concise, step-by-step manner how even a person with no savings, no stocks, no bonds, a large mortgage and large credit card debt can send his child to college with almost no money.

  how college financial aid offices actually determine what federal aid (pell grants, stafford and perkins loans etc.), and state grants will be given out to potential students so you will know in advance how to prepare yourself to receive the maximum amount for your child's college education.

  dispel the myth that schools are 'need blind' and provide, in their own words, how university administrators discriminate against early admission students looking for college financial aid.

  provide you with 4 actual financial aid offers, that a high school senior received in the spring of 2003, with college financial aid packages that were significantly different; even though the schools looked at the same financial information, and tell you why they're different.

  tell you how stafford and perkins loans that you've received can be forgiven (canceled) years after you've received them.

  direct you to so many college scholarship sites that your head will spin. you'll be taken to college scholarship sites for every conceivable area you can imagine. college scholarships for athletics, academics, special need scholarships and college scholarships for every conceivable religion.

  you'll also be directed to college scholarship search engines that will e-mail you when new college scholarships become available and which ones are nearing their expiration dates so you can quickly apply.

  i will tell you 4 financial aid myths that are commonly accepted as fact and will completely change the way you think about preparing your finances for your child's education.

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let's throw in some bonuses==

• i will show you how applying to a private college that costs $95,640 dollars more than a state college is actually to your advantage if you have no money.

• i will give you my own top10 list of costly mistakes that parents make when applying for college financial aid.

• i will direct you to the same handbooks and manuals that are only provided to college financial aid advisors and high school financial advisors who use them as a training tool.

• i will tell you how different lenders offering federal stafford and plus loans offer programs that vary so significantly, that some will save you significant dollars over the other. and as an added bonus, i will show you what organizations to join after leaving college that will pay off those loans while paying you a salary as well.

• i will give you more than 50 interactive web links that will provide you with a sea of financial aid information and take you to virtually every place you need to be to complete your college financial aid process.

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"knowledge is of two kinds. we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

samuel johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in boswells' life of johnson

why is this book so different...

because it works!!!.

you already know that. but this is what i will do.

• i will lay out in a very precise manner everything you need to do to send your child to college for free or close to it;

• i will act as your guide, and take you step-by-step through the maze of web sites, articles, and manuals in an uncomplicated and simple fashion. when we're through, you'll know everything you need to know about college financial aid;

• i will help you set up fool proof strategies so you'll never miss a college financial aid deadline;

• i will send you everywhere you need to go to apply for federal aid, institutional aid, state aid, and college scholarships;

• i will direct you to the actual laws enacted by the federal government specifying how college financial aid should be distributed and the manuals that clearly lay those laws out;

• and when we're through, if you've followed along, you'll walk away with a staggering gift:

a college education for your child

what's more important?

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"this interactive guide makes the financial aid process so simple. everything you need to know is right at your fingertips. what i was most impressed with was the books' attention to detail and the pitfalls it helps you avoid. 'how to send your child to college for free or close to it' should be required reading for every high school senior and every high school senior's parents." jessica h. - new city, n.y.

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a 100% money backed guarantee. no kidding.

if you're a parent like me, and even if you're not one, please understand that this interactive guide was written out of necessity.

i needed to find a way to send my child to the university he was accepted to.

i am so sure that this book will create the successful road map you need to send your child to college for free or close to it, i am removing all the risk and placing it on me.

if for any reason you are not satisfied with the information i've provided, just contact me within 30 days and i'll personally refund 100% of the purchase price.

no questions asked!!!

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if after reading "how to send your child to college for free or close to it" you still aren't able to:

• easily apply for college financial aid and a multitude of free scholarships;

• get a free financial aid coach;

• read the actual laws the house of representatives wrote creating and enforcing federal aid programs; and

• easily find your way through the maze of financial aid web sites, manuals, and articles, i'll happily return your money.

100% guaranteed.

i wrote this book to help you.

to try to alleviate all the time and effort i had to go through because there were just too many places to look.

so you really have nothing to lose.

it is not by chance that you got here in the first place. and it is not by chance that here is a valuable tool that can help.

"learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
abigail adams (1744 - 1818), 1780

act now!!!

dear parents,

this book will soon sell for $79.00.

this is the last release that will sell for $29.00.

that's an extraordinary offer when you consider the cost of a 4-year college education today.

to get an idea of the enormous costs of these schools, go directly to the college sites on the internet and look at some of the listed costs that include tuition, room and board, books and supplies, and living expenses. don't bother, i did it for you.

• harvard university - $42,850;
• new york university - $41,105; and
• yale university - $39,520.

it really doesn't matter if it's an ivy league school -

• tufts university comes in at $37,331;
• syracuse university , $35,227; and
• northwestern university , a whopping $40,263.

let's be honest, most of us are not bill gates. most of us can not afford to spend $100,000 to $150,000 on a college education.

this is one offer that you must not pass up. do it for your child or do it for yourself. you won't be disappointed.

barry simmons

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