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  Step 6 - Develop the plan
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Developing a college savings plan

If you are a parent, perhaps your biggest concern is funding a college education for your children. You realize how important this can be, given that a college education may be the biggest advantage that you can give your children. The difficult part is deciding how much to save for college, and in what type of savings plan to invest.

This section addresses an approach to determining how to best to offer the advantage of a college education to your children. It entails following these eight steps:

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