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101 Developing a Comprehensive Plan to Manage and Lower Your RealCost of College™
  • Who pays the full college sticker price and why
  • The importance of college selection
  • getting your student involved in the selection and financing of college
  • How your student can/will help to lower cost
  • financial aid maximization strategies
  • The parent/student agreement
  • forecasting and maximizing financial aid
  • how and why a student's merit always pays
  • a debt-free plan to finance college
  • making sure grandparent gifting is financial aid neutral
  • tax reduction strategies to save taxes for college
  • determining your saving and investment strategy.

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C. Gary Hoffman has been the College Financial Planning
speaker for the Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth
Pathways To College program
at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. and the Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD campus.
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Hopkins Center For Talented Youth  Pathways
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Will you be a victim to the Financial Aid Slot
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aid process and how financial aid is
calculated you can take control. Be sure
that you are getting the most financial aid
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Webinar 201:

Understanding, Maximizing and Completing the Financial Aid Process

  • Merit versus need-based aid
  • How Student merit leads to lower cost
  • How FAFSA and the IM formula work
  • Accurately knowing and forecasting your EFC [Expected Family Contribution]
  • Tips on completing the FAFSA form accurately and on time
  • The need-based aid forms and rules
  • How the FAFSA formula works
  • The impact of asset titling in need-based aid
  • Invisible assets for need-based aid
  • How certain deductions lower taxes and increase aid
  • Advantages of business ownership in the financial aid process
  • How to make sure that gifts from grandparents don't reduce aid
  • The Zero EFC
  • FAFSA rules for divorce and remarriage

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Webinar 301:

Understanding, Developing, and Negotiating College Financial Aid Offers

  • Knowing what your aid offer should be in advance
  • Analyzing and evaluating your offers
  • Why and how to file an appeal
  • Creating competition for your student
  • Winning appeal letters
  • Knowing the basis for your appeal
  • Accepting the award but not the offer
  • Asking for more time
  • Case study examples of successful appeal letters

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"Mr. Hoffman's knowledge and expertise in the area of College Financial Planning is
undeniable. For the past two years he has participated at our Pathways to College program
by leading the "Financial Aid and Planning" Workshops at the University of Virginia and
Johns Hopkins University. The Pathways to College series is offered to a diverse group of
academically talented students and their parents which focuses on various aspects of the
college application process. I have always found Gary to be extremely professional and up
to date about the numerous costs associated with attending college and how best to plan
for this expense. Participants have found his session to be much more informative than
other Financial Aid seminars they had attended in the past and for some his was the most
worthwhile session of the day. "Professional", "Wealth of Knowledge", "Excellent",
"Insightful", are among the praises used by families to describe Gary's session. In one
instance a parent had "given up on FAFSA aid" until attending Mr. Hoffman's workshop
and discovering new information that encouraged him to give it another look."

Jana Pickard
Assistand Program Manager
Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth
Family Academic Programs
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