Students can benefit from money-saving tips

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

An Oklahoma State University academic adviser has published a new report to help students prepare, apply and go to college cheaper with more than 400 ideas on money-saving tactics.  

Lance Millis, who pens a weekly column and oversees two Web sites as the College Answer Guy, is offering “How to Go to College Cheaper” in printed (paperback) or electronic formats.

“It was when I started doing research for a column, about a year ago, that I realized there was no end to the number of recommendations I could provide readers. They just kept coming,” said Millis, assistant director at the Watson Family Student Academic Success Center in the OSU College of Education.

His new report is divided into three sections: preparing and applying for college, scholarships and financial aid, and ways to live at college and beyond for less.

Millis’ research for the report also allowed him to develop what he calls “college money makeovers.” “I ask students to fill out a four-page questionnaire so I can give them plenty of specific recommendations tailored for their lifestyle and income limits.”

Millis also wrote the book “College Prep - 101,” that helps high school students prepare for college. Both the book and the report are available at Hastings in Stillwater and Bartlesville, Crazy Ladies Bookstore in Norman, Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City and Steve’s Sundry Books in Tulsa as well as online at http://www.collegeanswerguy.com (click on “buy a book” at the top of the page), and on Amazon.com. “How to Go to College Cheaper” is even available for Amazon’s Kindle Reader, which means anyone with a Kindle “app” can get it on their iPhone.  

All of Millis’ columns are available free at http://www.collegeanswerguy.com. New columns are published on a weekly basis in the Stillwater NewPress and the Weatherford Daily News. For more information on college preparation, go to http://www.collegeprep101.com/. E-mail Millis at lance@collegeanswerguy.com.