What was the financial aid education/advising like in your child's high school?

[ucbalumnus]

@ClaremontMom

I’m not sure how much information the kids were told directly during school hours. However, for parents our school had a financial aid night. But it was held in January. This was fine for those only applying to our UC and CSU’s, but for private schools this was too late in the process. By the time we attended the meeting our FAFSA and CSS Profile were already done as early deadlines were in Jan/Feb.

Seems like January is a very poor time to have a financial aid night. Better would be in the spring semester (for juniors) and/or very beginning of the school year (for seniors), so that students and parents can be better informed about what cost and financial aid questions they need to think about themselves before the application list is made.