The name of the financial aid game is to stay FOCUS on task.  We are at the end of the year 2018 and I hope many of you parents with college-bound students had a successful year with the financial aid game.  Many of you are pulled away from being successful with the financial aid because of distractions.  Those without goals in terms of positioning themselves to get the maximum amount of free financing for college are not focus.  You allow family, friends and uninformed professionals about your unique situation take away what is necessary to get free financing.  You are all over the place trying figure out how to win.  Get the right information, hire the right professionals and win in the financial aid game.