About the Student Aid Tree Project
A FREE Resource for Students and Parents Seeking Financial Aid

We are a broad-based group of former-students from across the USA who are working to implement a system that provides unbiased information about financial aid, which includes scholarships, grants and student loans.

The cost of education is not decreasing and we are concerned about the rise in student debt and the fact that college-bound applicants may not be aware that there are a variety of options available to students. The very colleges that we attend may have no idea how much debt students are taking on.

When college financial aid officers got into trouble last year for accepting gifts from lenders, the moral of the story was clear: You could easily overpay for your student loan by simply borrowing from a college’s recommended lender without first shopping around. Unfortunately, shopping around is easier said than done. With problems in the credit markets continuing to plague student loan providers, many lenders have limited their product offerings and worse yet, closed their doors altogether. As a result, students and parents are now left wondering "who's left" to borrow from.

Our goal is to develop a simple framework that provides students and parents of students access to financial aid information that is comprehensive, unbiased, and in the best interest of the students.

Student Aid Tree is a free service, but more so, this site is an open-source national project. We encourage suggestions, contributions and participation in order to enhance the functionality of the site. Together, we may end up building the best source for financial aid on the web.