Four Ways to Find Free Money to Pay for College: Affluent Families Can Apply, Too

A piggy bank sits on a stack of three textbooks, a chalkboard in the background.

With college costs outpacing inflation, even affluent families are rethinking how to pay less out of pocket during National Scholarship Month, which is this month.

The assumption that "we make too much to qualify for aid" is one of the costliest misconceptions in higher education.