SACRAMENTO, CA – Apr. 13, 2010 – Two of the most difficult questions about college – How much student aid will I get? and What will college really cost me? – were answered for nearly 11,000 low-income students participating in the new national Access for All^® program.

The program provided a combination of services that researchers recently identified as key to increasing how many low-income students attend college – individualized assistance preparing the often-daunting federal student aid application (FAFSA) and insight into their aid eligibility.

"Families need to know ahead of time which colleges will offer the best economic and academic fit before students apply so they can make smart choices that don't burden them with debt," said Craig V. Carroll, founder and chief executive officer of StudentAid.com.

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StudentAid.com's breakthrough College Cost & Planning Report^® is personalized for each student's academic and financial circumstances and the specific colleges they are interested in attending.

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SACRAMENTO, CA – DEC. 8, 2009 – Student aid advisory and estimation specialist StudentAid.com and net price calculator provider Think Ahead, LLC, of Portland, Maine, today announced plans to merge. Think Ahead, a developer of college financial planning tools since 1996, currently provides net price calculators to colleges, universities, and higher education agencies throughout the nation.

The deal, which unites two college net price calculator providers, is expected to be finalized in January and will accelerate the release of a new generation of net price calculators.

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"We have begun demonstrating our Student Aid Estimator™ at colleges around the country," said David Childress, general manager at StudentAid.com. "We anticipated consumers' need for greater college cost transparency and have spent the past two years preparing and testing our service to provide a flexible, accurate, and user-friendly calculator to Title IV colleges and universities."

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SACRAMENTO, CA - StudentAid.com today introduces a breakthrough service that for the first time allows families to compare out-of-pocket costs before applying to college and avoid suffocating debt. The service calculates aid eligibility to help students and families understand their true net costs and find the best college deal possible.

"Families have been deprived of, yet desperately need, insight into their out-of-pocket college costs to ensure when choosing a college, they make a smart choice academically and financially," said Craig V. Carroll, StudentAid.com founder and chief executive officer. "Our service demystifies college costs and empowers students and families with comparative information to give them early insight into how to plan and pay for college."

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