FREE College Planning Workshop, Consultations and Webinars
College can be more expensive than purchasing a home. Learn how to pay wholesale for their college education.
College can be more expensive than purchasing a home. Learn how to pay wholesale for their college education.
The FAFSA form for 2025 is being modified again. They have eliminated the Multi-student discount and other tools that saved you money. If you desire to take out student loans, you are required to file the FAFSA. We will discuss the new FAFSA during our free college planning workshop.
Event held 11/11/24 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Doors open at 6:15 pm
Woodbury High School
Lecture Hall
South Entrance
2665 Woodlane Dr.
Woodbury, MN 55125
Event held 11/13/24 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Doors open at 6:15 pm
Stillwater High School
D205 Large Forum Room
South Entrance
5701 Stillwater Blvd
Oak Park Heights, MN 55082
Introductory, personal session with a college expert to learn about your specific situation. Learn how to prepare your student for college.
If you already work with UFPROS and would like to schedule a Zoom meeting to discuss your students or financial aid processing.
The free virtual consultation is designed to allow us to learn about the specific needs of your family as you enter into the college planning years. This also gives you a chance to learn about our organization and ask questions about what is going to take place with your child's future education. We will share as much information as we can within the limited time and limited information that you are supplying. This meeting typically takes 90 to 120 minutes, depending on your situation. If families are divorced or separated, we will provide the opportunity to have two private meetings to keep family topics and finances confidential. At the end of this meeting, we will be able to determine "IF" we can help you with your college planning.
Use the link below to sign up for your Free Consultation to learn more about UFPROS
This meeting request is for current customers that are working with UFPROS. This link can be used to set up a review meeting, financial aid processing or question meeting, award review meeting, or introductory meeting with the next student in your family.
Use the link below to sign up for Current customer Zoom Meeting
We offer a holistic approach instead of a bit-and-piece approach to the college planning process. This is the mandatory part of the program that connects all of the other services so that you understand how the decisions you and your students are making impact how much you will pay for college. This is the ongoing GPS-type process that gets you the correct answers to your questions. We typically start this process in the 10th grade and work with the students until they are done with all programs, including graduate and medical programs. We are here to help as family dynamics, job changes, and student situations change. We get you the answers, so you get financial help.
We have programs to guide your student to reach the scores needed to receive scholarships at their favorite colleges. We offer PSAT/National Merit, ACT, SAT, and college preparedness courses. This curriculum is designed to take place starting in the fall of the junior year. Please note, that not all colleges offer Scholarships. Merit scholarships based on the Entrance exams and student's GPA are the best way for ALL families to get FREE money for college.
We provide Professional Assessments that help students discover their dream job, the college major needed to do that job, and the perfect college that has the major(s) desired. This process takes some time to develop and is typically completed over a 2-year process. This process can save you thousands of dollars and eliminate the stress caused by changing majors and colleges.
When we first looked at what we would have to pay for college, we did not think that we would get any assistance. With the help of the UFPROS team, we were able to save $5,000 a year in tuition costs. Chris and his team were able to answer all our questions and provide us with a map of how we needed to navigate through the entire college process.
Jonathan D
We want to offer our sincere thanks to the UFPROS staff for helping us figure out the college process. Our daughter had 15 schools picked out and we were spending a fortune traveling to visit them all. Chris helped us find our daughter's "dream job", and the major that she needed to do that job, and the colleges that had that major. The amazing part was that the colleges she originally chose did not have the degree program she needed. I wish we would have learned about the UFPROS assistance earlier. Our son's college search will be much easier now that we understand the process.
Robert S
My wife and I are very high-income earners. We knew that we would not get any need-based money, but, as with most families, needed to get some assistance to pay for college. The UFPROS staff saved us so much time in prepping our daughter for college and helping her pick schools, filling out all the financial aid forms, helping us establish budgets, and taking the stress out of the entire process. Although we did not get any need-based money from the colleges, we did get academic scholarships. In addition to the academic scholarship guidance, the time and stress saved were worth a fortune. As they say, time is money. We were able to sleep at night, knowing that the staff at University Funding Professionals had everything taken care of. This was the best investment we ever made for our kids' education.
John M
I attended the workshop held by the University Funding Professionals. I was extremely disappointed to learn that my financial advisor had told me to save money for college in the wrong type of account. Based on what my advisor told me I found out that I was going to have to pay $20,000 more per year than what I should have been paying. Chris helped me reorganize and set up our savings and save $20,000 on my daughter's tuition. Way to Go! Thanks for your help.
Jim L
My son has a 4.0 GPA, and he was struggling with the ACT test. He has taken the test three times and scored 18 on each one. We could not figure out why he was getting the same score. We signed him up for the UFPROS ACT prep course. We found out that he had a time management issue. Jill worked with him and provided test-taking tips that he was able to use during the test. He scored a 25 on the next exam. This score helped him meet the qualifications and receive a little bit of scholarship money for the college he wanted to attend. I wish we would have enrolled him in the UFPROS ACT prep course during his sophomore year. We will be more prepared to assist my daughter with her testing. We cannot say thank you enough for everything that they have done.
Katie A
We have seven kids, and a limited income and neither of us ever attended college. We visited with Chris, and he laid out a budget for all seven of our kids to attend college. He explained student loans, scholarships, and the importance of the ACT test. Our daughter received a 32 on her ACT test after attending the ACT prep course. She has received $22,000 in scholarship money and an additional $14,000 in need-based aid, and we need to pay only $3000 for her first year of college. We do not know how we would have done this without the assistance of University Funding Professionals.
Peter B
We had attended numerous financial aid workshops. We were very skeptical that University Funding Professionals could help us in any way. It was very clear that they knew what they were doing, and Chris answered all our questions without any high-pressure tactics. They helped us choose colleges for my son, increase his ACT score so he could get in, and help to put together a budget so we could pay for college without having to get any parent loans. The process has been very enjoyable and has eliminated all the unknowns for our family. Thank you for your help.
Chris P
Our friends introduced us to Chris and University Funding Professionals. They had a wonderful experience and spoke very highly of the company. From day one, we received professional assistance in many different areas. We are self-employed and had already filled out our FAFSA Chris identified several errors that would've cost us over $10,000 a year in tuition. We have learned to put our trust in Chris's staff for all future college and financial aid processing. I wish we would have found and hired them when our kids were in middle school. ·
Jim Z
We hired a college planner to help our daughter find the school of her dreams. The planner guided us to all the very expensive colleges on the East Coast. The planner had never figured out or asked us about our budget or how we would pay for the tuition. When we learned about University Funding Professionals and the services, they offered we took advantage of the free consultation and quickly figured out that the schools my daughter was looking at were way out of our budget. We postponed our trip to the East Coast, had our daughter take Chris's career software program and found six colleges that were closer to home and, most importantly, within our budget. We hired University Funding Professionals to take care of all our financial aid and college planning for the future. We told our so-called "college planner" that we could no longer afford her advice. University Funding Professionals saved us a fortune with the information that they provided. Thank you so much for your help, you guys are awesome.
Ron L
We adopted our children and were very excited to provide them with a college education. When we first looked at our EFC number it was over $25,000 per year that we had to pay out-of-pocket Chris asked several questions and found out that we had adopted our children. He gave us a list of questions to research and because our children were wards of the state, prior to adoption, they were considered independent students. This meant that our income and savings would not have any impact on the cost of their education. We can send our children to college for less than $5000 per year out-of-pocket This was only one part of the incredible service that we have received from University Funding Professionals. What a bargain!
Susan F
We were a financial wreck when we came to visit Chris. He was very patient and gave us easy-to-understand instructions on how to fix our situations. He showed us how to save for emergency funds, set up our first budget, save for college, save for retirement, and prepare our children for college. Words cannot express the appreciation that my husband and I have for University Funding Professionals. We are now sending our second child to college and Chris continues to be patient and coach us through the entire process. We highly recommend their services and think that parents are crazy not to work with a company like this if they are planning on sending their children to college.
Kelly M
My daughter was extremely stressed out, did not know what she wanted to do, where she wanted to go to college, and refused to discuss anything about college. We attended the workshop in the free consultation without her, hired Chris, and brought her to visit with him. He showed her his software and made picking a career fun. Within two weeks she had figured out what she wanted to do and where she wanted to go. I do not know what we would have done without their assistance.
Victor S
My husband and I are divorced, and my son was taking it very hard. He had given up on high school and it looked like he was not going to graduate or go to college. The free consultation was very emotional for me because I felt like I let my son down. Chris helped me through the process, offered to meet with my son, and assured me that we could accomplish anything we set our minds to. He met with my son and through getting to know him, found out that they had both attended Teens Encounter Christ. From that point, my son started to communicate openly, and Chris found that he was interested in engineering. He helped us set up a campus tour and introduced us to several engineers in the local area. My son did the job shadow and was very excited about his career choice. Chris emphasized that for him to become an engineer he had to improve his grade point average, complete some volunteer community service and graduate from high school. He followed Chris's instructions and is now attending college to become a mechanical engineer. It is almost like he's a different person now. I do not know where he would be if I had not gone to visit with Chris for the free consultation.
Ashley P
After a failed first semester in college, I joined the USAF. I spent 10 years in the military as a Radar Technician. I learned about life and how to be successful in my studies. I completed my AAS through my military training and then fell in love with higher education. I completed my BS in Electronic Engineering and a Master's degree in Business Administration and Technology Management. My goal is to educate others so that they do not have to experience unnecessary failure as they pursue their educational process.
I failed at my first attempt at college because I did not understand the entrance testing, did not know what I wanted to do for a major, and was flat-out not ready for college. I see these same characteristics in many students that I visit with every day. In the present day, we also have to add on the stress of funding education. I want to help students and parents avoid the stress and mystery that accompanies their college readiness. My background as an Engineer is integrated into our college consulting business and services. Over the past 10+ years, I assisted over 3500 families through all steps of the college process.
Chris is the founder and president of University Funding Professionals, LLC. UFPROS was established in 2009 to focus on assisting families thru the complicated college planning process.
