A Word From Our Founder

I decided to create Tuition Aid Consulting to address a growing need for families to navigate financial aid during the enrollment process in an industry that has become increasingly corporate. Following major events like the pandemic and the enrollment cliff, colleges budgets have needed to tighten in order to maintain a positive outlook.

While there are some increasingly popular options for getting an education on a budget such as trade schools and community colleges, both of which are honestly still great options, when students' dream about their future career it can be hard to find their preferred major at those humble institutions. So for those families who choose to send their first student to a traditional 4-year college, they are faced with a gauntlet of admissions teams, and are posed with finding an institution that is the right academic fit, social fit, and financial fit.

Approximately 30-40% of families make mistakes on the FAFSA/CSS, and though this number already feels high, those are just the ones that the financial aid offices can identify from discrepancies. In my past experiences, when families come to campus for admissions events and stop by financial aid, I am almost always able to find more errors. One parent I worked, lets call them Batman (this is my bio just run with it), after examining what things were considered assets and federal rule surrounding Batman's home equity, we were able to find another $40,000 (for one year, $160,000 total) in federal and institutional aid.

As someone with my own student loans, who has spent their entire career supporting students' educations, this has become something of great personal importance to me.

Eddie Harris