Financial Assistance

It’s never too early to begin planning how to manage the financial investment in your college education. How?

Well, it is a complicated topic, and one for which there is a multiplicity of advice from a wide variety of sources. Our advice?

  1. Recognize that it is never too late to start saving for college. Whether you are a high school senior, a freshman, or a seventh grader, you, and your parents, can start saving for college at any point.Your banker, or your family’s financial planner or tax advisor will have several ideas of where and how to save. Don’t delay because it seems too complicated or too late. Just save.
  2. Know that private colleges, like Whittier, understand that their costs are high, and do all in their power to help families find ways to finance the investment in their child’s education. And consider the possibility of financing an important investment in you education over the long term - as you would a house, a retirement plan, or any other significant and valuable commitment.
  3. Some of our favorite sources for information include:

    www.finaid.orga great site for general financial aid information;
    www.mapping-your-future.org with special sections for middle and high school students;
    www.fastweb.comregister to find out about scholarship information;
    www.collegeboard.coma great all-purpose site.

    And of course, your school's guidance office and library will have many guide and reference books you and your family can review.