About Us
I started college-smart-scholarships.com as a way to help reach many more families with a proven consumer-oriented approach that families are not aware of. From my experience both as a parent and an educational/business consultant, I believe there is a "perfect storm" that has already gathered around middle class families in the USA.
These forces closing in on many families today include:
- rapidly rising college costs
- the government's unrelenting push for increased student loans and
- the average family's limited ability to save for college.

Together, this is producing a growing economic and social crisis in our country. Without a change in course, our society is producing a fast growing segment of our future working population that is taking on dangerous levels of debt - even if they can find work (and wages) in their chosen professional field.
- What can we do to help our students avoid leading them down a path of crippling debt?
- How do we help parents better balance their own retirement goals without overspending or over borrowing for college?
Colleges are put on such a high pedastal in our culture. Parents naively assume that colleges have our student's best interests in mind. Have you found a college yet that is willing to help pay back your astronomically high loans once your student successfully graduates? If you do, please let me know.
Until then, I am dedicating my energies to help as many families as possible become college smart. Fortunately I am not alone in my mission. This site is a shared platform. I look forward to introducing other colleagues, authors and experts in the field. I continue to learn much from them in supporting families with their college goals - in a financially responsible approach.
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I hope this consumer perspective will cause you to think for yourself before you take a course of action that impacts your student, your retirement goals and your family finances for decades.
This information rich site is also designed to be a dialogue and not a monologue. Take the opportunity to share your first hand experiences throughout the site. Whenever you see this symbol

that means it's an opportunity to share your first hand experiences in a Community Forum.
My vision is that together we can develop a college smart community that can not only help other families today but also influence the root causes of these important issues for the families of tomorrow's college bound students.
Thanks for visiting us!
Dennis Raup
Publisher
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