Avoid Student Loans: A guide for maximizing scholarship earnings and making smart financial decisions during college

by Aaron Martin, Peter Dunn

Overview

Avoid Student Loans is a revolutionary book where a personal finance expert and a recent college graduate come together to offer you exclusive advice on how to make sure your college education is an investment rather than a liability (requiring large loan payments for 10 years or more after graduation.) In this book you'll learn ways to reduce your cost of college, win more scholarships, and make smart financial decisions while in college. Following this easy-to-read guide can lead you to landing in a much better place after graduation, well ahead of your peers, and without the ball and chain of a large loan payment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983458807
Publisher:	Green Olive Books
Publication date:	01/25/2012
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Peter Dunn (a.k.a. Pete the Planner), is responsible for some of the most cutting edge financial advice around. Whether he is preventing high income earners from wasting their opportunities or teaching single parents how to raise financially adjusted children, Pete the Planner always arrives to the scene with his trademark comedic wit.

He released his first book, What Your Dad Never Taught You About Budgeting, in 2006 and is the host of the popular radio show The Pete the Planner show on 93 WIBC FM. He was also the mastermind behind 24 Hour News 8's 60 Days to Change and has appeared regularly on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN Headline News and numerous nationally syndicated radio programs.

His second book, 60 Days to Change: A Daily How To Guide With Actionable Tips to Improve Your Financial Life was released in December of 2009. His third book Avoid Student Loans, was released in January 2012.

Peter was named one of "Indy's Best and Brightest" in finance in 2007 and media in 2009 by KPMG and was declared one of NUVO magazine 's "30 under 30 to Watch in the Arts" for comedy (back when he was young and funny). He won an Indiana Broadcasters's Association Award in 2011 for the program he created, 500 Ways To Save. Peter was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by Hanover College in 2012.

When not wrapped up in writing or dabbling in broadcast, Pete the Planner enjoys cooking and spending time with his wife, Sarah, and his, daughter, Ollie.