What You Can Actually Afford · Course check

Course check

3 questions. Get them all right and the Clear Number seal is yours. Get one wrong and you can reread and try again — as many times as you like, and nothing is recorded against you.

1. Why give the financial limit early rather than at the offer stage?

   Early it shapes the plan; late it reads as a broken promiseOffers cannot be declined after they are acceptedScholarship deadlines fall after offers

2. Which figure is your real number?

   The maximum a lender would approveThe total cost of the course your child wantsThe one that still works after a bad year

3. What turns the number from a boundary into leverage?

   Stating it as a totalWriting it downAttaching conditions about which subject they choose