Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
welcome to the spotlight on
patrick to ur my guest today
you're going to have a lot of fun with this one kevin campbell
kevin started as a marine
went off
he
college was the pope for
needed more time
like a lot of us purchase some wisdom
and they finally said
i don't want to be this anymore and he went back and got his degree in record
time with red with great scores in every area
and went on to create
businesses
we finally kinda figured out we want to be when he grew up he found out you know
what
i could save a lot of families more money than they could ever imagine
if i just help them with the college funding aspect
because as most of us know that have children
the college proposition today
his a
small morgan's
to a large mortgage
an expense
he helps aisle of the stories
almost gets g_a_t_t_ when he gets to tell people that he's going to save them
more like thirty five thousand a year
and that is why i want him on this show thanks so much kevin from uni
thanks for having me
official i want to get into this this store you now are
a college
you know college planet sorties your company
college funding is what you do
and you were savin
people
tons i mean how much is the number now up to you
that you've saved or that you've gotten for people uh... widow alert for for
that attracted on acute of basis but for example just this year our senior class
this year
received three point eight million dollars and grant and scholarship offers
asso
one financial aid office with the majority of that being grants and
scholarships when it doesn't have to pay back
bowman it's gotta be music they're prepared sears
is on the day i don't have to work for house
well that's uh... with its huge thing what we have going on right now in the
u_s_ his college is astronomically expensive as you know
yeah um... analytic you've just got a little sort greater at right now i need
your answer what kids are doing here and i'll see you know how the about this is
and on top of that
people were trying to look at these expenses you know how we're gonna do
this and without
committing financial suicide
our regular kids through college
without wrecking our retirement and and this economic uh... environment were in
right now
people recognize my kids really do need to go to college they're capable of
going to college at the end college isn't for everybody for but bird flu
through in his ford they need to get there in the need to get in and get out
as quickly as possible
uh... and and with the right value of education
and people were eleven our time with this uh... of these days you looking at
mail hundred thousand dollars a kid or better
uh... in college expenses if you got your three kids
uh... band that sticker price of gold months pay sticker but
about your looking uh... state school these days if they're going to use you
often hear to spend somewhere close to one thousand dollars a kid
if you're in the bank sticker price
walk yet and and i know that you've got uh... process that you want people
through yeah and i know that you have uh... several things he he
parks which we live about some of the things that you do a service is your
best way to describe us our company what we do is that where private college
counseling company
meaning that we helped students with uh... career development and uh...
admissions
applications helping them find the right colleges right career so the not healthy
switching majors and taking it yours to graduate in a list of things
but in addition to that were differ from from uh... any other private counselors
is that we also couple that with the financial side meaning that we
understand the financial aid system
how it works and and how to
movements myosin result ability for aid
and when you couple all that together when you when you have a a play
well-prepared students who's doing everything correctly
annual financial plan same time
uh... that continue be very very powerful position to be in and many
people are just paying sticker for college these days
him one hundred thousand dollars let sticker price war when you have to
borrow the money today to go to college
then you're going that sticker price
plus on interest in taxes and everything else that goes along with it
so reducing those expenses and having a reasonable planned and uh... a defined
plan before you get into this
really helps families out
people come to you
they want to get uh... they they really need to prepare
so how poor
immediate when you start
when someone starts the we like to start my perfect on the start of mosquitoes in
their software high school so rewrites into my most people surfing about this
did you hear see nearby school
corralled in our programs or were going to students hands on we really like it
when i saw force uh... but we we do
continue to take them after that that just are preferred time
but one of the things that i see what you guys do you how was that hike
i would call you almost like a student's agent to college
because not only do u prep the student
with the processed minsan
the prep tests he prepared for those of the maximize them
me use your walking with them for a few years
giving them what i call marketable right
the college of their travel weeks not the one that they
default to it's it's actually prepping to go to the concert which right where
we're trying to get students into the right college further education not four
of the cheapest college they can find
exactly and thats that that's the thing
as we go to this next segment i really want to get into the ideal student
um... and what the how people can connect you directly and then what they
get what's the process that they'll go through
this is the the business partly my guess
kevin campbell
college funding
palestinian authorities
welcome back to the business spotlight
contact with you are my guest days kevin campbell of college planning a forty
college planet forty-odd dot com
there really a college fund dena
company
mean you're the kind of person that coming from what i've seen the fund
college
yeah think it's not that it's just that with the student loans and i can think
of diet parents on
how to find cult right writer
you guys are
really got some amazing things and some stories that i've heard
or mister
yeah i think it's going to ask you you gettign
we have a retrain them for some of them one of my students this year was not
even
interning working in a city because the sticker price s amused fission over
fifty five thousand dollars here
nobody here
and uh... it very tell justin very smart young man did everything then you would
use the was great he did everything we ask his it candidate was a good
candidate and he was a good student of us writing that he stepped through
everything we have time to do
and it was a real well
um... the time it was all said and done he had forty one thousand dollars and
scholarships it's actually costing us parents their out-of-pocket costs
for india desormeaux next year's less than a thousand dollars now
i heard you tell me a story of the day about somebody i want to go to a p_c_ or
exit was already at easy
and had there basically and without a lot
braver uh... when they filled out their forms modest they were just unaware
uh... a lot of these forms are very confusing
uh... we see mistakes on the financial aid forms all the time uh... weary will
analyze those go back incorrect bowman actually i_t_c_ actually credited money
back to know much i was very impressed with credited money back
and uh... so and we were able to make some other financial improvements in her
situation
and i think the net antebellum is going to be over the next uh... three years
the remaining of their
they're trying to tease you i think the swing tells me about twenty four
thousand dollars difference organising
has amazing i mean just think the thing i like it i think about
the sticker
and high pay for ninety three twenty five percent of my own school
but i think that work and you won't feel like to do that
but i think it's days substantial difference
yes
as you know they kind of pull the plug on what they can charges eight dollars a
credit and i think it's a hundred no no no it's far more than that
hahahahaha
so tell me what the experiences like some think it's a probably get a hold of
you and what are the experience we do uh... we do a lot of educational
workshops of a lot of murray through schools coming up in the next year
um... or you can look at our web site called planning authority dot com or
just call our office uh... head eight one seven two three one
zero two three three
and talk to us and we'll see if we can help you're not
now i would say that one of the things that is really
is if you're in the dallas-fort worth area specially
if you're if your affiliated with any booster club they said the you guys are
in there
especially to being a booster since top greatest have a big passion for that
because
i've seen
that eighty percent of that audience his college back uh... or college material
is and uh... we're in the process i think right now we're uh... we're
actually sponsoring a lot of band boosters they think ripped you i think
response room
at this point like seven margin means next year excellent and uh... and and
and the number continues to grow everyday so were were sponsored quite a
few those but yeah that's that's a great agree group fro frustrating contact
we do tremendous matter free teaching and free workshops we donate a lot of
our time of the community
uh... because we can only handle so many
specific lines for going into so many that we can actually work with
one-on-one
but we have a real passion for what we do and we wanna make sure that uh... our
goal for the for twenty year uh... twenty twelve listed to speak at least
two thousand families uh... four workshops in our car
our freedoms
so they connect with you
then what's the process hello it depends on we have several different
service offerings it depends on uh... on on the family situation we can to go
through discovery process and figure out
uh... what program they're the best fit four that's going to get them the best
*** for their back
uh... and then of in in our most popular program
um... the families will work with the stand will be working with uh... our
college planning team that are uh... might mike or craig route who is uh...
spent twenty nine years working for friday universities before he joined our
team is our head of student services
so i think you know is i used former dean of students uh... you know it
worked in the admissions office i mean as the day i think it's a
he works for the students and most of her though
and at the same time i work with the parents and helped them prepare
financial plans an oval minimize out-of-pocket costs and then figure out
what must affect of ways to tini to pay for the rest of it and i know that you
guys have
you know you're gonna collect some regard pretty quickly what you can be
worries that you can view
and then
if they engage with you you have
even certain guarantees that they do their part
you you never put a lid
it's a dot were not for everybody but for the people that we do choose to to
work with
uh... are guaranteed the numbers that will double what they paid us a film
receive twice
and financial aid uh... what they paid us if they're really stole the money
that way about forty-four
and and if they don't think that if they're not even
if you can see that early that you're going to tell 'em up front
yeah early on it's okay guys quickly ribka
so they can get a hold of you how again
uh... at our website is college planning authority dot com
and our office phone number is eight one seven
two three one zero two three three
that's great well
i can tell you i've known kevin for a number of years and i've seen him build
this business and i've seen bill this process
and i know that it be a slight change
for if you're a parent and you got a college-bound kid not targeted kevin
you're senate your cost of your soft money its that old you know bernie money
type of thing because he does
have the ability to help you if
if you qualify and other complaints
this is the business policy
thank you so much cavan
we'll be right