This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick. On this week's episode, we're going

back to school with a choose-your-own adventure guide to paying for college. We'll see if you can make it

all the way to the end without dying. We're also going to explain the backdoor Roth. Megan

Brinsfield joins us. All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.

Saving for college is hard and only getting harder.

I think we can agree on that, yeah?

I agree with you.

It's like one of those choose-your-own-adventure books where you have to follow the exact right path

or you end up getting devoured by a dragon, which, of course,

I mean saddling you and your child with incredible amounts of debt.

They're equivalent, I would agree.

Devoured by a dragon.

Or paying school, begging back school loans.

Yeah, I think a lot of people feel that way.

So today, we are going to have a choose-your-own adventure.

Isn't this exciting? Oh, it is.

All right, so let me turn to, I believe this book is entitled, Paying for College.

The Smart Way?

I don't know.

What should I title this fake book?

It's thrilling.

All right, the title of this book is, So You Want to Pay for College.

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