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Colleges Want Some Of Your Retirement Cash: How To Keep That Money
When I filled out financial-aid forms for my high-school senior last fall, the instructions told me to exclude retirement accounts from my assets. Wow, I thought: Colleges may leave musical-theater graduates with $165,000 of loans, but they aren’t targeting what parents will need to live on in their old age.