By Kerry Hannon Special for USA TODAY
Imagine you’re a 21-year-old college senior with no student loans, a stock portfolio — and a job. Meet Zac Bissonnette, author of Debt-Free U: How I Paid For an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents.
There aren’t a lot of students like him out there. After graduation, today’s college students owe, on average, more than $23,000.
There also aren’t many parents who haven’t signed up for a load of debt at the risk of draining their retirement savings and depleting home-equity accounts to make sure their kids get a college education.
His parents didn’t even try. They weren’t in a financial position to consider taking out loans for their son’s education.
Bissonnette, a personal finance writer and editor with AOL Money & Finance, has money smarts. That allowed him to have enough money saved to pay his own freight, but his aim here is to show others how they can do it, too.
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