Financial Aid Warrior

Financial Aid Warrior

Pearl and our team handle your financial aid. Start to finish.

  • Strategies to improve eligibility for grants and scholarships, including "sheltering" funds and other legal and ethical techniques
  • Accurate and timely filing of your CSS Profile and every other institutional form: NO MISSED DEADLINES, NO SCREW UPS!
  • "Tax Scholarships": planning for high income, self-employed families
  • Pre-filing and post-filing phone and email support
  • Help negotiating your award after you receive it
  • Monthly client-only, live "here's what you should be doing now" updates and Q&A

BONUS when you enroll tonight: the Admissions Evaluator. Andy's proprietary app shows how your child REALLY stacks up at every college on the list: safety, target, reach or long shot. Naviance shows you 3 factors. Admissions officers weigh 25. Build a balanced, strategic list and avoid Admissions Armageddon.

The 5X Promise. If Pearl can't show you, in writing, a legal and ethical way to get at least 5 TIMES her fee in need-based or merit aid ($14,975 or more), you get a prompt and cheerful 100% refund. No hassles. No hard feelings. (Your College Aid Strategy Session must be scheduled and attended within 30 days of enrolling.)

"My son is going to a top school (GW) on monies he received totally from Andrew's involvement. He looked me in the eye when I asked him what his success rate was and replied without hesitation, 'I get my clients 5 times the amount of their investment with me.' HE WASN'T KIDDING!!! Best money I ever spent."

Scott Sanders, parent

Pearl takes only 12 new families per enrollment cycle.

Prefer to spread it out? Pick 3 monthly payments. Your $500 comes off the first one, so you pay $832 today.

Note: federal rules appear to prevent consultants like us from charging to file the FAFSA. That's why you are retaining us for advice and counsel, not this specific service. However...

...We will file the FAFSA for you if you'd like, but as a courtesy, free, not as part of our fee.