Why trust a 21-year-old student at a large public university to tell you how to finance your child’s college education? The author poses this question about himself at the start of this entertaining book, then delivers the answer in a series of useful tips and insights into what he calls the “con game” of inflated college costs.
Zac Bissonnette, a published personal-finance writer since his teens, attacks student loans, college rankings and the notion that a name college is worth overpaying for. Attending most any college, he says, is far more important than attending a certain college.
He may not deliver on the brazen claim on the back cover: “This book can save you more than $100,000.” But a raft of data and personal anecdotes make this a worthy and unique addition to the plethora of college planning guides.
