Create Your College Funding Plan

Maximize Your College Buying Power
Find the Right Fit School for Your Student and for Your Finances
Save Money and Save Time in Planning for and Paying for College
If you are parents of college bound high school students and even slightly concerned, worried or scared about paying for college, you need a real plan, a college funding plan
Paying for college today can be an expensive, daunting, stressful endeavor…
- Published college prices are astronomically high
- What schools think you can pay and what you really can pay, are two very different numbers
- Financial aid doesn’t cover enough costs
- Student and parent loans are costly and take years to repay
Paying for college is the second largest consumer purchase (after home buying) for most families. But parents and students are mostly left in the dark about how to manage their college buying and how to protect themselves financially throughout the process.
Too many families are overpaying and overspending on college costs
There is a better way…
Work with College Money Smart to Boost your College Funding Success!

Creating your College Money Smart College Funding Plan gives you the opportunity to:
- Take the guesswork out of your college planning
- Build a better list of schools to consider
- Explore more possibilities for your family
- Make more informed financial decisions
Utilizing state of the art, award-winning college planning software, you have instant access to:

Calculate Expected Family Contribution and Family College Budget

View Detailed School Information

Broaden Your School Search

Evaluate and Compare Financial Aid Awards
Bring your College Funding Planning to life with an interactive and powerful tool
- Search for and sort more than 3,500 schools by major, size, location, graduation rate and more
- Compare schools side-by-side
- Determine true, out-of-pocket costs for schools on your list
- Calculate how much you can afford to pay from your savings and cash flow
- View one, five and ten-year salaries for graduates of each program
- Evaluate your Financial Aid Awards
- Understand student loan costs and repayment schedules, before taking them out
- Access a private scholarship database
You can skip countless hours of online searching for information about schools.
You don’t need to create cumbersome spreadsheets to view multiple data points.
You now have access to a user-friendly, comprehensive and collaborative software tool that is truly a family portal for your college funding planning.
- Make changes and updates in real time
- Track admissions requirements, application deadlines and status
- Save documents
- Generate reports
Enjoy Less Stress and More Success in Your College Funding Planning

If you’re ready to Maximize Your College Buying Power, schedule a call or virtual meeting with Taren.
Together, we can:
- Tour the college planning software platform and view a full college funding plan
Discuss your situation to determine if this is the best option for your family
It’s time for a better way to manage your college planning…
the College Money Smart way
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Our aim is to save you money and time, while reducing the stress and emotional toll on your family.
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Take Control of Your College Funding Planning…Start Today!
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