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Scholarships
- Scholarship Road Map
Scholarship Road Map is a FREE Web Site Focused on Educating Students & Parents about Finding & Maximizing College Scholarship and Financial Aid Opportunities It is positioned as a Practical Guide to finding money to pay for college.
- Nerd World -- Student Financial Assistance
Site provides information regarding financial aid and colleges scholarships.
- Cappex & Merit Aid
Cappex.com and MeritAid.com are free services that connect students with colleges and universities prior to filing an application. The site offers custom tools including a profiler and "What Are My Chances?" calculator to students find and evaluate college opportunities. MeritAid.com is a comprehensive Web site designed to match students with merit-based scholarships.
- Off to College
Off to College provides a comprehensive college planning and preparation site including planning guides and calendars, scholarships search, college budgeting worksheets and more.
- Super College
SuperCollege provides well-written information a ten-step guides on subjects such as college admission, scholarships, financial aid and success after college. In addition to its collection online resources, SuperCollege publishes more than a dozen print titles and a number of e-books.
- Students.gov -- Student Gateway to the Future from the U.S. Gov
The U.S. Government maintains this excellent web portal for students and young adults. The site features information and resources focused on a variety of topics including: planning and paying for post-secondary education, community service, careers, study abroad, international students, career development, taxes, voting & democracy, online research & information, study skills, scholarships & grants, consumer information and military service.
- NSPA - National Scholarship Providers Association
The National Scholarship Providers Association's stated mission is to advance the collective impact of scholarship providers, and the scholarships they award, through exchanging best practices, offering professional development opportunities, and promoting student access and success in higher education. Since 1999, NSPA has grown to include over 200 members, with 450 individuals, from across North America.
The organization's memberships is diverse and includes small and large private foundations, community foundations, public charities, two and four-year colleges, universities, associations, government agencies, and organizations that offer services to scholarship providers.
- Info Please - Higher Education
Comprehensive site with useful resources and information.
* Choosing a College
* Applying to College
* Scholarship Money
* Financial Aid - beRecruited - Student Athletes
beRecruited.com is a leading destination for high school student-athletes seeking recruitment from colleges and universities. It provides a platform for student athletes to connect with college coaches across the nation, giving students the tools to research and build profiles of athletic and academic information, as well as providing coaches with a large, searchable database of potential recruits.
- FastWeb (Scholarhips)
FastWeb is an Internet scholarship search service with a large database of more than one million scholarships -- national, community, and college-specific -- worth over $3 billion.
The site is recommended by many high schools and colleges.
FastWeb users are asked to complete a detailed questionnaire about themselves. The site then uses the data to generate personalized information regarding scholarships, colleges, internships, etc.
- Scholarship America
The Scholarship America web site provides useful information about scholarships and the Dollars for Scholars® and Scholarship Management Services® programs.
- Scholarship Search (The College Board)
The College Board's Scholarship Search is an online tool to help you locate scholarships, internships, grants, and loans that match your education level, talents, and background. Users are asked to complete the brief questionnaire and Scholarship Search checks for potential opportunities from the site's database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding with nearly $3 billion in available aid.
- Quest Bridge
QuestBridge strives to establish a bridge to higher education for the most highly motivated and talented low-income youth in America. The organization and site is a valuable source for bright, high achieving, low-income students seeking opportunities, and for institutions seeking applicants from that demographic group. This Wall Street Journal article provides additional details.
- Find Free College Money!
The FastWeb Free Scholarship Search connects students with 600,000 scholarhsips worth $1 billion.
- Florida - Bright Futures
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program establishes three lottery-funded scholarships for Florida high school graduates who demonstrate high academic achievement and enroll in eligible Florida public or private postsecondary institutions. There are three award levels for which high school seniors may qualify. The scholarship may be used for either full-time or part-time enrollment and is renewable. All initial applicants must meet the general requirements for participation in this program and specific requirements for the individual award.
- Black Excel
Black Excel, a college help resource, was featured in Ebony. The site contains a wide variety of useful college and scholarship information.
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