San Diego College Planning Expert Ron Caruthers hosts workshop for nation's college planners

Dec. 7, 2009 - PRLog -- America's top college planners from as far away as New Jersey and Florida braved holiday airport crowds to get to San Diego this week to listen to college planning expert Ron Caruthers discuss the latest in the college planning world from December 7th through the 9th.

"A lot has changed in this current recession and it has affected a lot of families," states Ron, 'and a planner needs to be up to date on all the changes in the admissions process and the funding process so they can best help their clients, since many families that did save have lost money in the current market. Also, now that Obama is president, he's changed some of the rules as well."

Topics that will be discussed are:
-Why 529 plans are only valuable for 5% of the population, and a huge mistake for the other 95% of the families to put their money in.
-Changes to the financial aid formulas and how it affects middle class Americans.
-Ways to help your students get more free merit money and need based aidin a tough economy.
-What to do when one or both parents lose their job: how to keep the students in school.
-The media effect in college planning, and what Tiger Woods should be doing to help his kids get ready for college, even if he ends up getting divorced.
-And much, much more.

"I've really tried to bring together the brightest and best minds to help equip these planners to better help their families in today's economy. Every child in America deserves the opportunity to have a college education, and I'm doing my best to make sure this happens," Ron says.

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