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Preparing for College: Financial Aid, Scholarships and General Information Links
- "Preparing Your Child for
College," a booklet from the Department of Education that offers tips about choosing a college, costs, common sources of financial aid, and other information. You can read it online, or get a PKZipped copy to keep.
- College Choice Page offers among other categories, a Paying for College
option that organizes information into four categories: college
costs, kinds of financial aid, sources of financial aid, and applying
for financial aid. While not as in-depth as some other resources,
the College Choice Page is excellent if you feel overwhelmed
by all the information available and the process looming ahead.
- CollegeXpress provides Financial Aid 101, a comprehensive overview of financial aid. Sections on The College Cost Environment, Nuts and Bolts of Financial Aid, and Getting the Most for Your College Money are filled with definitions, steps, and tips for successfully navigating the financial aid process.
- The Princeton Review offers
an enormous amount of information on specific financial aid for
universities and colleges across the United States. Each entry includes a financial aid rating of student satisfaction with the aid received in the last year. In-state and out-of-state tuition rates are provided along with estimated room, board, and book costs. Percentages of undergraduates receiving aid are provided as well
as the percentage of those applying for aid. The average amounts of
grants and scholarships given also are noted. The percentage of undergrads with campus jobs, their average annual earnings, and a notation on the availability of work-study rounds out a typical entry. Use the search facility to quickly access the entry for the college of your choice.
- CollegeView lists 3,300
colleges and universities and includes information on financial
aid for each. While not as extensive as the Princeton Review,
the CollegeView page allows searching by specified criteria
(like sports programs available, student body size, or geographic
location) or by name of the school you'd like to find. You can
register to receive e-mail updates, or you can simply use the database for no charge without registering.
- College and
University Home Pages
- College Find
service. This resource isn't just focused on financial aid, so you'll
find information on tuition costs hidden among the general college information.
- For scholarship information, check out fastWEB,
where you can search for scholarship information, check your fastWEB
mailbox, focus on scholarship and loan information, and link to
the FinAid Page. The seven-step registration process is free but
lengthy because specific information is necessary to match financial
aid options with your individual characteristics and limitations.
Each recommended resource comes with descriptive information, repayment terms, and a link to a pre-formatted form letter to request more information.
- The critical form for federal assistance is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Check out also its 1999-2000 Student Guide. It's full of information on student eligibility, financial need, dependency status, procedure for applying, special circumstances, deadlines and telephone numbers. The site includes
information on specific kinds of federal financial aid like Pell
Grants, Stafford Loans, PLUS Loans, Perkins Loans, and Work-Study.
Read carefully the section on Borrower Rights and Responsibilities
for information on deferment or cancellation of your federal student
loans.
- Sallie Mae.
With categories like Planning for College, How to Pay for College, Applying for Financial Aid, Understanding Financial Aid, Getting Education Loans, and Once You Have Education Loans, Sallie Mae tackles the nuts and bolts of obtaining grants in a well-organized and easy-to-understand fashion.
- Fin Aid Page Links to financial aid sources, tools, loans, and other valuable resources make up this collection--the most extensive on the web. The FinAid Page also offers another, albeit smaller, free Financial Aid Search Form targeted at particular career subjects.
- CollegeXpress lists scholarships available, although many of them have eligibility restrictions. Individual school home pages also may
offer scholarship information, so it's worth stopping by and checking them out.
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Grants, like scholarships, don't have to be repaid. Grants-L sends announcements of grants, scholarships, and fellowships to your e-mail address. To subscribe to the list, send e-mail to listproc@listproc.gsu.edu
with the message subscribe grants-l. You'll be in the
loop for timely information about free money for school and study.
Don't know how to apply for the grant once you know about it?
GrantWriter-L might help. Send e-mail to majordomo@fallingrock.com
with subscribe grantwriter-l in the body.
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If you are a member of a special group, you may find other
types of financial aid are available to you. For example, if you are a student with disabilities, you may want to subscribe to the DSSHE-L (a mailing list that discusses services to disabled students in higher education including how to fund these services). Send e-mail to listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu with subscribe dsshe-l in the body.
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If you are a female student looking for financial assistance,
be sure to check the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and grab some information on fellowships and scholarships.
DISCLAIMER: The above links are not part of the U. S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Network, and the Department has no control over their content or availability.
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