How To Tame The High Cost of College with Brad Baldridge

The His and Her Money Show

Talaat and Tai McNeely

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Let's face it, the already high cost of college is doing nothing but increasing. Currently, the biggest financial hurdle that the millennial generation is facing centers on student loan debt.

Figuring out how to minimize, or altogether avoid, financial bondage that occurs due to high college costs is not an easy task to undertake. To help us navigate this all too important topic, we reached out to Brad Baldridge from Taming The High Cost of College, to share some wisdom on how to keep college costs low.

What You Will Learn

The first thing that you need to consider when trying to reduce college costs.
The role that your taxes play in saving money for college.
Common mistakes that families are making while trying to save for the children's college.
How to find viable scholarship opportunities.
The 6 types of colleges and how they impact pricing.

Resources Mentioned

The FREE Scholarship Guide For Busy Parents ~ by Brad Baldridge
FastWeb
CollegeBoard

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Talent. And this is Ty. This is a His and Her Money Show, episode 87.
0:06.0	This is the His and Her Money Show, where we talk about managing money, marriage, and everything in between.
0:15.0	Now here are your hosts.
0:16.6	America's number one money couple,
0:19.1	Talent and Time McNeely.
0:27.5	Welcome back to another edition of the His and Her Money show brought to you by His and Her Money.com. We're so glad to have you back with this for another episode. We know that you're going to love and we know that you're going to be educated by this one because we're talking about how to prepare your student for college and all the high costs that come within.
0:45.7	I think that for a lot of families this is a topic that needs to be addressed and needs
0:51.6	to be discussed because man that is what is
0:54.8	holding this generation back financially is being saddled with tons and tons of
0:59.7	student loan debt and I'm also particularly excited about this particular episode because you know what?
1:05.7	A lot of people just don't know.
1:07.7	They don't even know where to start.
1:08.7	Right.
1:09.7	You know, a lot of people know that, okay, one day my kids are going to go to school they're going to
1:13.4	go to college but they really don't know where to start they don't know the
1:16.6	details it seems overwhelming and they think they got time and then you blink in
1:20.5	your and your child is senior. Exactly, that's true.
1:23.2	So to help us out with this topic,
1:24.7	we brought in an expert by the name of Brad Baldridge
1:27.4	from taming the high cost of college.com.
1:30.6	He is an expert in this and he helps families navigate this. He even has a podcast dealing with this very topic.
1:37.0	So we're so glad to have him on the show today to share with you guys some of his great advice.
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