How to Pay for College

As I share my story with students around the country, there is one question that always comes up. How exactly did I pay for college? So many students I have talked to are thinking of giving up their dreams of going to college because of how expensive it is. Thus, by popular demand, I am going to do a blog series on How to Pay for College.

To give you a little preview... In this series, I am going to show you how you can can pay for college even if you aren't at the top of your class, a star athlete, or particularly strong in the area of community service. I'm going to share some advice on what to do when all the scholarship applications you diligently sent out are answered with letters that begin with, "Unfortunately, you were not selected as a recepient..." and usually include something along the lines of "We had an overwhelming number of qualified applicants.", or worse - remain entirely unanswered!

In this series, I am going to take you beyond the advice you're used to hearing to the real-life, down and dirty, detailed, step-by-baby-step things that I actually did to pay through four years of $30,000+/year NYU tuition, room & board, books, food and so forth, entirely on my own. And trust me, these are things that ANYBODY can do. Stay tuned...