The College Admissions Edge

By Pearl and Andy LockwoodEducation Parenting Kids & Family Education for Kids

The College Admissions Edge episodes

June 04, 2024 More FAFSA Glitches, Child Behavior We'd Like to Change
Originally broadcast on College Coffee Talk, June 3 (Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep): Pearl and Andy Lockwood discuss even more annoying and frustrating FAFSA problems. Plus, child behavior we'd like to change.
31 min
April 23, 2024 The Death of Test-Optional?
College Coffee Talk, April 24, 2024. (Live 10am EST, Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep): Another blow to test-optional, the latest on student loan "forgiveness" developments.
See LockwoodCollegePrep.com for more information on our college advisory, financial aid consulting, test prep and other programs.
29 min
April 03, 2024Harvard: Safety School?
4/1/24 episode of College Coffee Talk (Mondays 10am EST Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep):
The FAFSApocalypse - signs of relief?
Harvard - Safety School?
The first 100K per year college (not a sick April Fool's joke) More!
For 11th graders: Get College Ready Summer Applications and Essays Bootcamp: LockwoodCollegePrep.com/bootcamp
34 min
March 24, 2024New: Financial Aid "Secrets" for Families Who Think They Can't Qualify
Originally a live webinar on 3/20/24, college consultants Pearl and Andy Lockwood revealed how to comfortably afford college -- without cutting back on your lifestyle or racking up tens of thousands in high rate, high fee college debt (on your kid or you) -- by taking advantage of legal and ethical "loopholes" buried in the financial aid regulations.
Topics included:
How six figure and seven-figure earning families can qualify for tuition discounts of 56.2% even If their child did not crush the SAT, bribe a proctor or cure a pandemic over the summer
The strange reason an expensive private college can cost LESS than a “cheaper” state university
4 Legal and Ethical Ways to "Hide" Your Money --The Wall Street Journal said it best: In financial aid, it's not how much you've saved, but WHERE
7 Deadly Traps to Avoid - Thousands of families each year needlessly "steal from themselves" by committing these costly financial aid errors
The FAFSApocalpyse - The cluster-you-know-what caused by the Department of Education's efforts to "simplify" the FAFSA financial aid application and how they affect you
The 529: "Friend" or "Foe?" - What's the deal with the 529 college savings plan that your financial guy or accountant recommended? And what to do about it if you have one.
Self-Employed Parents - The biggest mistake business owners make. Plus little known "Tax Scholarships" buried in your business that your accountant has never bothered to advise you how to unearth
Negotiation Secrets: How a mild-mannered college advisor helped his client into a “windfall” of an additional $30,022 from an elite college AFTER its “final,” stingy award
Financial Aid Rules' "Tectonic" Changes for families with siblings in college, business owners, divorced families
More - webinar attendees had a lot of questions in the chat that we attempted to answer. I bet you have some of the same ones!
Enjoy!
More help available at LockwoodCollegePrep.com/faw
1 hr 25 min
March 21, 2024 How to Beat the Leprechauns in the Financial Aid Office
College Coffee Talk (originally aired 3/18/24 - Mondays 10am EST on Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep):
A financial aid "hack" to beat the leprechauns in the financial aid office, another college pulls the plug on test-optional, more!
Resources:
LockwoodTestPrep.com/online
LockwoodCollegePrep.com/bootcamp
32 min
March 16, 2024 Live Workshop at the Manhasset (NY) Library
Recording of Andy Lockwood's presentation to an intimate group of parents (including one with a First and Third Grader) in March 2024. Lockwood fielded a variety of questions, including:
*How many times should you take the PSAT?
* What are "good" extracurricular activities?
*How long will this presentation last (asked by a 5th grade daughter dragged to the presentation by her mom. Real cute, kid.)
*When should you start working with a college advisor? (Lockwood liked this question, but his answer might surprise you.) *More
For more resources, visit https://www.lockwoodcollegeprep.com/
1 hr 23 min
March 15, 2024 Can My Kid Get Into Harvard?
From the Virtual Mailbag: Can your kid get into Harvard? Probably not. Well, maybe (although their published rate is currently in the 3% range, yikes!) We’ve helped a couple dozen kids get into Harvard over the years, but even we know that there’s no “magic recipe.” But we do know what it takes…
6 min
March 12, 2024Post Mortem: The First Digital SAT
College Coffee Talk 3-11-24 (broadcast live on Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep):
Feedback on the first digital SAT in the US
What do do if your FAFSA info doesn't tell the whole truth
Bombshell reasons for the FAFSA problems (and what to do about them)
More, from the live Q&A
Join Pearl and Andy Lockwood live, Mondays 10am EST on their Facebook page: Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep.
More info at LockwoodCollegePrep.com
33 min
March 07, 2024 Student Loan Relief Case Study -- Too Good to be True?
Originally broadcast on College Coffee Talk! [Mondays 10am EST, Facebook.com/lockwoodcollegeprep This live episode covered: *Student Loan Relief Case Study (that sounds too good to be true) *The digital SAT and decline of test optional policies *College essay news *More! Resources mentioned: Student Loan Relief service: https://www.yesterdaysdebt.com/ Summer Bootcamp for class of 2025 https://www.lockwoodcollegeprep.com/bootcamp Common Application Essay Prompts https://www.commonapp.org/blog/common-app-announces-2024-2025-common-app-essay-prompts
30 min
March 03, 2024 The Truth About Merit Scholarships
From the Virtual Mailbag: "How do we get merit aid?" College advisor and author Andy Lockwood reveals the ins and outs of how to get your mitts on merit aid. More info at LockwoodCollegePrep.com/faw
9 min

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