A college plan your family can afford.
Connect college choices, financial aid and savings with the life you’re building. A short webinar from the team at Community Solutions Financial.
- Compare the full cost. Separate grants and scholarships from loans. Look beyond the first year.
- Know your options. Understand aid forms, savings choices and where SAGE Scholars Tuition Rewards may fit.
- Make a family plan. Set a contribution limit that accounts for your other financial priorities.
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Want a plan built around your family’s numbers?
The college decision is a family financial decision. Book a consultation with the CSF team — $49.99 for 30 minutes — and leave with a plan.
Book Your Consultation — $49.99College Funding — Pricing Guide
College is one of the biggest checks a family ever writes. These are the ways we help you write a smaller one — every price up front, before you commit to anything.
Do It Yourself — Our Guides
Done With You — Professional Plans
Tier 1 — Screen
- We screen your family's numbers and aid position
- You see which schools are realistic — and which will overcharge you
- A clear starting map for your college list
Tier 2 — Full Plan
- A complete, written college funding plan for your family
- School-by-school real costs, and how to position for more aid
- How to pay the bill without wrecking retirement
Tier 3 — Plan + Execution
- Everything in the Full Plan
- Plus hands-on help carrying the plan out — positioning, timing, and the paperwork moments that matter
Not sure which level fits? That is exactly what the consultation is for. We will tell you honestly — including when the free tools are all you need.
The number that matters is what your family pays.
Sticker price is not the real price. In the webinar we walk through how to compare the full cost of a college — grants and scholarships separated from loans, and costs looked at beyond the first year — so your family can decide with clarity before the commitment.
Where SAGE Scholars fits
Ask the CSF team about SAGE Scholars Tuition Rewards and the program options available to your family. Benefits depend on eligibility, participating schools, deadlines and sponsor rules. Rewards are not cash. A school may count them within existing institutional aid, so always compare the final net price.
For current general registration and reward deadlines, see SAGE’s official program rules. Specific sponsor programs may have additional limits. Tuition Rewards is a registered trademark of SAGE Scholars, Inc.
The free tools we point every family to
Some of the best college planning tools in the country are free — most families just never hear about them. College Board's BigFuture offers a free college search, a scholarship search matched to your student, official SAT practice built with Khan Academy, and monthly scholarship drawings your student can enter just by completing planning steps. We use these tools with our own families.
Inside our paid guides and plans, we go further: a guided College Board Toolkit that says which tool to use at each stage, an SAT + ACT Prep Handbook that turns the free official practice into an 8-week plan, and a Parent's Filing-Season Companion for the FAFSA and CSS Profile paperwork. The free tools are the shelf — the plan is knowing what to take down, and when.
BigFuture, SAT, AP and CSS Profile are programs of College Board, which is not affiliated with Community Solutions Financial. Program details and scholarship drawing rules live on College Board's site and can change; the drawings are administered by College Board under its official rules. Nothing here enrolls your student in any College Board program.
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