{"id":44,"date":"2009-10-07T01:38:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T01:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-03-10T22:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T04:11:18","slug":"book-review-free-for-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2009\/10\/book-review-free-for-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Free $ for College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"float:right;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=baterucom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0764554670&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bought this book, Free $ for College, last month from a dollar garage sell and then spent my spare time reading through it to better understand how getting free money actually works. This book will come as a big help to others looking for ways to save while attending a university.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the book review I did at amazon.com.<br \/>\nlink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-College-Dummies-David-Rosen\/dp\/0764554670\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1254876819&#038;sr=8-2\">Free $ for College<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n4.0 out of 5 stars Get help with education cost, October 4, 2009<br \/>\nBy \tLarry Battle &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>David Rosen and Caryn Mladen, the authors, cover every route for paying for college: Scholarships, grants, low interest or interest-free loans, tuition discounts, and other stuff. With that said, I found half useful and the other half irrelevant and repetitive.<br \/>\nThis book gives good tips on what payment plans do and don&#8217;t work. Like how working during college to pay your expenses is a bad idea.<br \/>\nThey also talk about scams, joining the military, athletic scholarships, and other means of reducing your tuition.<br \/>\nThe best part of the book is how they help you discover what makes you unique and how to use that to win grants, scholarships, and discounted tuition.<br \/>\nAfter reading this Dummies book, I can now assist my friends and myself with getting free\/discounted tuition.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few good tips provided in the book:<br \/>\n&#8211; Some states have early deadlines, so completing your FAFSA as soon as possible is a must. Most states funds require your FAFSA to be completed.<br \/>\n&#8211; No scholarships are guaranteed, so don&#8217;t pay money to get a scholarship or for someone to find it for you because most likely it is a scam.<br \/>\n&#8211; Apply to many small scholarship because they have low competition, helps you winner bigger ones, and they can add up quite nicely.<br \/>\n&#8211; When applying to scholarship, presentation is the key. Attach a cover letter, print on high quality paper and contact the scholarship committee&#8217;s office after your submission.<br \/>\n&#8211; College is a business, so you can negotiate a deal on your tuition. However finish college early because the price will keep on rising.<br \/>\n&#8211; You can get your student loans forgiven by working for a low income school for 3-5 years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Larry Battle<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=baterucom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0764554670&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought this book, Free $ for College, last month from a dollar garage sell and then spent my spare time reading through it to better understand how getting free money actually works. This book will come as a big help to others looking for ways to save while attending a university. Here&#8217;s the book review &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2009\/10\/book-review-free-for-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Free $ for College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}