Today I have a big announcement to make! And a quick favor to ask.
First, an exciting update
For the last year, I’ve been on a beeline to having my book LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward out in December of 2015.
This has been incredibly exciting to me. It’s taken me almost three years of work! I’ve packaged up every viable debt-free college strategy into one little package any parent can benefit from — even if they make far too much money to qualify for any government financial aid.
The manuscript was finished earlier in 2015 and everything was set to wrap up exactly on time.
But then something wonderful happened.
At exactly the perfect time for me, President Obama suddenly, on September 13, 2015, made two sweeping, landmark decisions that changed the way every student and every family will apply for financial aid for college for years to come. Certain parts of LAUNCH do talk about maximizing financial aid, of course, so this meant that I suddenly had a lot of changes to make to my manuscript.
I wasn’t upset though! This was the best thing that could have possibly happened to me as an author. Why?
Because here I was with a book manuscript all complete and ready to go — all I had to do was go through it and carefully adjust every financial aid strategy so that everything in the book perfectly aligns with President Obama’s big changes. This was tremendously time-consuming and complicated – but so worth it!
Unbelievably good news
This means that I will be the first to market with a thorough, comprehensive debt-free college book that includes specific instructions for how to get the most out of President Obama’s current changes.
(This was no small feat — there’s now a 10-month gap between the day when parents finish out a tax year where they’re being scrutinized for financial aid purposes and the day they fill out the FAFSA form. This huge gap requires big changes in strategy for parents.)
So my book publication date has been delayed, but that is OK!<
Here’s my big announcement!
I’ll be providing my readers an early-bird opportunity to order discounted copies of this book through kickstarter.com starting at January 18th, 2016 at 6:00 am CST. Write that date on your calendar because quantities will be limited. Before that happens, though, I need to ask you a favor.
Can you do me a favor right now?
Before I finalize everything and officially release, I need to be sure I’ve covered absolutely everything parents need to know about getting kids through college debt-free.
This is where you come in. Please take just a few minutes to answer the super short survey below. There’s really only one thing I want to ask you: “What are your top questions about getting kids through college debt-free that I absolutely must answer in this book?”
Take my super short survey here.
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Read just one chapter of LAUNCH every 1–3 months while your child’s in middle school and high school, and you’ll know every viable strategy for debt-free college at exactly the right time to implement it.
And if your child’s already well past middle school? That’s OK; you can run to catch up. But the process of getting your kids through college debt-free goes more smoothly the earlier you start it—especially if you’re not planning to save up any money to pay for college.
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Who is Jeannie Burlowski?
Jeannie is a full-time academic strategist, podcast host, and sought-after speaker for students ages 12–26, their parents, and the professionals who serve them. Her writing, speaking, and podcasting help parents set their kids up to graduate college debt-free, ready to jump directly into careers they excel at and love. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post, USA Today, Parents Magazine, and US News & World Report, and on CBS News.
Jeannie also helps students apply to law, medical, business, and grad school at her website GetIntoMedSchool.com. You can follow her on Bluesky @jburlowski.bsky.social.
No part of this article was written using AI.