This book can save you more than $100,000.
These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a
quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are
willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their entire
financial futures just to get a fancy name on their diploma.
But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that this assumption is not only
false, but dangerous-a class con game designed to rip you off and doom
your student to a post-graduation life of near poverty . From his unique
double perspective-he's a personal finance expert (at Daily Finance) AND
a current senior at the University of Massachusetts-Zac figured out how
to get an outstanding education at a public college, without bankrupting
his parents or taking on massive loans.
Armed with his personal knowledge, the latest data, and smart analysis,
Zac takes on the sacred cows of the higher education establishment. He
reveals why a lot of the conventional wisdom about choosing and
financing college is not only wrong but hazardous to you and your
child's financial future. You'll discover, for instance, that:
* Student loans are NOT a necessary evil. Ordinary middle class
families can- and must-find ways to avoid them, even without
scholarships.
* College "rankings" are useless-designed to sell magazines and
generate hype. If you trust one of the major guides when picking a
college, you face a potential financial disaster.
* The elite graduate programs accept lots of people with non-elite
bachelors degrees. So do America's most selective employers. The name on
a diploma ultimately won't help your child have a more successful career
or earn more money.
Zac can prove every one of those bold assertions - and more. No matter
what your current financial situation, he has a simple message for
parents: "RELAX! Your kid will be able to get a champagne education on a
beer budget!"
