Archive for the ‘College’ Category
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Musings about Kids and College
I was in a conversation the other day with someone who seemed really intelligent an accomplished. I was quite enjoying it, but when the conversation turned to their kids and college, I was surprised by this person’s philosophy. She said something to the effect of: I told my daughter to just take the classes that [...]
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Best Value For Your College Dollar?
A couple of weeks ago an article from SmartMoney about college education costs and salary caught my attention. In particular the chart caught my attention. Being the math dork that I am, if there’s a table of numbers, I’ll often skip to that before reading the article. This article had one of the most interesting [...]
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CollegeAdvantage is Giving Away More Free Money
Several times in the last year (or longer) I have written about Ohio’s CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan and their gift of free money. It seems like they are always giving away free money. If you missed the last opportunity, now you have the chance for $50 in free money again. Ten years from now, I see [...]
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Saving for College – An Exercise in Depression
My friend from Rich Credit Debt Loan asked me a simple, but thought-provoking question last week. I’m probably going to tease you with the actual question for a little while. We decided the best answer for the question was to create a calculator and I haven’t had the time to do such a thing. However, [...]
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Don’t Forget to Get your Free $50 from CollegeAdvantage
Since my servers have been having staying up today, I’ll just give a quick update to remind everyone to get a free $50 for opening a 529 educational plan. You don’t need to have children to take advantage of this. We don’t have children and I signed up under my own name. If we have [...]
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Get a Free $50 for Opening a 529 Educational Plan
Every now and again Ohio’s 529 Plan, CollegeAdvantage, offers a nice bonus program to bring in new customers. If you have kids opening a 529 plan is smart money management. If you are like me and only have nieces and nephews it is a great gift to give. Getting started with them may be difficult, [...]
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Free $25 for Signing up for a 529 College Savings Plan
Two years ago, I decided I wanted to give my newly-born nephew a little extra cash for schooling when he gets older. My research lead me to the 529 plan, a tax-advantaged investment to help with future higher education (typically college). Unfortunately California isn’t a state where I get a tax break for putting money [...]
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Dispelling Common College PF Myths
Today’s guest post comes from Studenomics, a blog that tries to help younger people reach financial independence. It’s actually part one of a two part series, so when your done, you’ll want to click through to Studenomics to read the rest. If you enjoy reading this guest post then please consider subscribing to RSS Feed. [...]
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529 Plans: How Do you Choose?
I mentioned yesterday that I’m looking to give my newborn nephew a head start in his education savings. Having gone through a number of options, I decided that a 529 Plan was my best option. Unfortunately, a lot of research may be necessary to decide on the right state’s 529 Plan for you. Here are [...]
