Dan Evertsz is the owner of College Planning Specialist located in Oakland, CA. Together, for the past 17 years, we have helped of hundredes of working class families obtain financial aid from countless universities across the country.

College Planning Specialist educates and navigates working families through the College Financial Aid system. Per guidelines set forth by the Department of Education, there are many strategies that can be used to help families lower their "expected family contribution", which is part of the federal guidelines formula that will ultimately determine the amount of money the family of a student will be required to pay on a yearly basis.

Bay Area College Planning Specialist is deicated to assisting all families obtain a piece of the over $100 billion dollars available for college. The students and families that receive the most financial aid are not always the families that may deserve it the most.