ABOUT ME
Shannon Thurmond
Certified College Funding Specialist
CA Insurance License # 0I55349
RE Broker License # 00874020
Office Address:
23046 Avenida De La Carlota
Suite 600
Laguna Hills, Ca 92653
Toll Free: 800-801-8920
Email: shannon@efcpros.com
Shannon Thurmond has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from U.S.C. and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He is licensed and certified to sell life insurance and annuity products. He also holds a California real estate broker’s license. He has been serving professionals, business owners and families for years in various areas of financing involving credit, debt, lending, savings, and now college planning and retirement planning. He is a God-fearing Christian, a loving husband, father of four adult children, and five grandchildren. His gifts are serving, helping, teaching, and training others.
ABOUT US
Education Funding Concepts
College planning and funding concepts that make a difference!
Vision:
To provide education, assistance and resources to every family desiring to improve the outcomes of the college planning and funding experience.
Mission:
Insure that students get into college at the lowest cost possible by giving families the best tools and the best resources to select the college that best fits them, while insuring we have optimized the maximum monetary aid available to them regardless of their income.
Goal:
Develop a customized, comprehensive approach that guides families through the college selection, college planning, and college funding process, stress free!
Education Funding Concepts-college planning and funding concepts that make a difference.
We are the “Late –Stage” college planning specialists!
“We show families how to lower the out of pocket expense of paying for college”
How to pay less for college by maximizing your financial aid eligibility using long and short term tactics for reducing college costs-
Don’t pay the sticker price for college!!
Here’s our 4- Step Strategy to Improving College Affordability- Free up money for college by reviewing the family’s finances
- Structure the family’s finances to reduce their Expected Family Contribution (EFC) (which increases aid eligibility)
- Match high “Gifting” colleges with the student’s career path.
- Appeal College Award Letters to optimize financial aid offer.
We assist your student for all undergraduate years with:- Personalized student career assessment (based on skills, interests, etc.)
- SAT/ACT board exam test preparation
- Advanced college search and scholarship search
- Chance of enrollment analysis report
- FASFA/CSS Profile filing
- Maximizing financial aid eligibility to acquire scholarships, grants, and loans
Would you like to be able to compare multiple college and university’s total cost of attendance in a side by side comparison report?
Would you like to know how to position your assets to keep from spending your retirement dollars?
Our objective is to help families successfully navigate the college admission and financial aid planning process so their children don't simply attend the least expensive college, rather the one that best fits them – regardless of the cost!
Education Funding Concepts-college planning and funding concepts that make a difference.
We are the “Late –Stage” college planning specialists!
“We show families how to lower the out of pocket expense of paying for college”
How to pay less for college by maximizing your financial aid eligibility using long and short term tactics for reducing college costs-
Don’t pay the sticker price for college!!
Here’s our 4- Step Strategy to Improving College Affordability
- Free up money for college by reviewing the family’s finances
- Structure the family’s finances to reduce their Expected Family Contribution (EFC) (which increases aid eligibility)
- Match high “Gifting” colleges with the student’s career path.
- Appeal College Award Letters to optimize financial aid offer.
We assist your student for all undergraduate years with:
- Personalized student career assessment (based on skills, interests, etc.)
- SAT/ACT board exam test preparation
- Advanced college search and scholarship search
- Chance of enrollment analysis report
- FASFA/CSS Profile filing
- Maximizing financial aid eligibility to acquire scholarships, grants, and loans
Would you like to be able to compare multiple college and university’s total cost of attendance in a side by side comparison report?
Would you like to know how to position your assets to keep from spending your retirement dollars?
Our objective is to help families successfully navigate the college admission and financial aid planning process so their children don't simply attend the least expensive college, rather the one that best fits them – regardless of the cost!