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Financial Aid Resources |
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Financial Aid Home |
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Internet Resources: |
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| College Advisement Home |
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Financial Aid Information |
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| MKHS Home |
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Fastwebhttp://fastweb.com
http://www.wiredscholar.com/
FinAidhttp://www.finaid.org
College Board http://cbweb1.collegeboard.org/index.html
ACT FA Estimator http://www.act.org/fane/index.html
The Student Guide to Financial Aid http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/SFA/StudentGuide/
Fainan. Common Aid Errors http://www.utm.edu/admin/finaid/errors.htm
Fastaidhttp://www.fastaid.com/
Fin. Aid Info http://www3.dist214.k12.il.us/guidance/finaid.htm
FA Estimator http://www.finaid.org/finaid/calculators/estimate.html
Fin. Planning http://www.key.com/templates/t-ps2.jhtml?nodeID=H-1.3
FA Awareness Month http://www.faam.org/
Indep Higher Ed. Network http://www.fihe.org/fihe/college/finance.htm
Parent Soup FA Calculator http://www.parentsoup.com/edcentral/calculator/
Peterson?s FA Page http://www.petersons.com/resources/finance.html
Project EASI http://easi.ed.gov/studentcenter/studentcenter.html
XAP FA Info http://www.xap.com/xapWWW/Cool/financial.html
Yahoo FA Info http://www.yahoo.com/education/financial_aid/ |
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| More Web Resources |
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Online Scholarship Searches
Hunting for scholarships has long been a tempting enterprise for students seeking financial aid for college. In addition to easing cash flow problems, scholarships carry a certain prestige absent in low-interest loans or work-study awards. Not surprisingly, the world-wide-web has taken the scholarship search concept to a new level. |
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Most scholarship services work the same way. First you complete a personal profile by answering questions about your academic history educational and career goals, personal interests and activities, and parental affiliations. While you may want to skip some of the questions, remember the more answers you provide, the lengthier and more relevant your list of matching scholarships will be. |
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Next, the service takes the information, matches it with its database, and provides you with a list of awards for which you might be eligible. |
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It's then your responsibility to determine which awards are really appropriate, request an application, and complete any necessary applications. |
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FastWEB� http://www.fastweb.com/ |
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Financial Aid Search through the Web, a.k.a. fast WEB, features a searchable database of 275,000 awards,scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans. |
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The biggest difference between fastWEB and other searches is that fastWEB creates a private mailbox for you while it updates with any new awards that match your criteria. (fastWEB) claims to add or update its database with close to 500 new awards each day.) You'll find this mailbox useful only if you're starting your scholarship search early and you want to keep receiving updated information (perhaps, you're just beginning your junior year in high school). If you're doing a one-time search, the mailbox serves no purpose. |
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Once you complete your profile, fastWEB takes about five to ten minutes to display your list of matching scholarships. Unfortunately, to get full descriptions you must click on each award separately, and wait at least another 30 seconds (depending on your modem's speed) before you see details, deadlines and contact information. Why the delay? Each listing is accompanied by new advertising banners, which take an eternity to load making fastWEB much slower than the other searches. |
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Finally, fastWEB lets you customize application request letters and access detailed information on local awards sponsored by schools registered with fastWEB. |
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MACH 25-MACH 25 is much faster than fastWEB. After you create your account, it takes less than a minute to match your profile with possible scholarships. Unfortunately some of the awards are not relevant (for example, they are restricted to residents of certain states), yet each one appears immediately with a description (including the ratio of applicants to recipients) and contact information which you may easily save to your personal account. When you are done reviewing the matches, it takes just another few seconds to generate letters of inquire. |
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ExPAN- The ExPAN Scholarship Search is maintained by College Board. Once again, you provide information for your profile information for your profile and the search engine generates a list of possible sources. It, too, works quite quickly, and you?re not subjected to endless advertisements from would-be merchants. Unfortunately, ExPAN's database seemed somewhat limited. |
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SRN - The Scholarship Resource Network boasts more than 8,000 programs, worth approximately $25 million. Like fastWEB, SRN continually updates its information. |
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MOLIS- The "Minority-on-Line Information System" (MOLIS) is only for minority applicants, making the search fast and easy for qualified students. You answer just seven questions and you're immediately given a listing of matching scholarships. The service also can link you to SRN. |
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Additional Scholarship Searches:
College Aid http://www.collegeaid.net/
CollegeNEThttp://www.collegenet.com/
College Scholarships http://www.college-scholarships.com;
Free Search http://www.freschinfo.com/
Go College http://www.gocollege.com/goscholarshipsearch/index.html
Scholarships.com http://www.scholarships.com/
Scholarship Info. http://www3.dist214.k12.il.us/guidance/scholarship.htm
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BOOKS
The following is a suggested reading list for any parents or students interested in obtaining more information on the difficult and often confusing task of paying for college.� Some of these are available in the CAP Office library. |
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Paying Less for College/Petersons |
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Don't Miss Out/Octameron |
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The A's and B?s of Academic Scholarships/Octameron |
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The Scholarship Book by Daniel Cassidy |
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The Financial Aid Book/Perpetual Press |
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The Black Student?s Guide to Scholarships/Barry Beckham |
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The Complete Scholarship Book/ Student Services, Inc. |
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Money Book for Women and Minorities/Young & Young |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION SOURCES |
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The College Costs and Financial Aid Handbook 1998. A "quot;how to"; reference book for students and parents, it outlines major aid programs, discusses how financial need is determined, and lists current costs at more than 3,500 two and four-year public, private, and proprietary institutions. Revised annually. $16.00 1999 edition available August 1998 in bookstores or from College Board Publications, Box 886, New York, NY 10101-0886. |
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College Planning Quarterly. A quarterly newsletter with features on financial aid and scholarships, advice on completing applications, tips on comparing financial aid awards, schedules for parents and students, and other admissions and financial aid information. Annual subscription rate of $29.95. Write The College Planning Quarterly, Subscription Department CB, P0 Box 844, South Orange, NJ 07079 or call 1-800-457-1492. |
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Need a Lift? (42nd edition) An annual publication from The American Legion that lists sources of career, scholarship, and loan information for all students, with emphasis of scholarship opportunities for veterans, their dependents, and children of deceased or disabled veterans. $2.00 prepaid, to Emblem Sales, Attention: "Need a Lift", P.O. Box 1050, Indianapolis, IN 46206. |
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Financial Aids for Higher Education, 1998, by OreonKeeslar. Lists more than 3,000 financial aid programs with up-to-date information on title, sponsor, nature of program, monetary value, rules for eligibility, basis for selection, application procedures, deadline dates and addresses. $45.00 plus $2.50 postage and handling. Order from: Brown & Benchmark Publishers, a Division of Wm. C. Brown Communications, Inc., 2460 Kerper Boulevard, Dubuque, Iowa 52001. |
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The College Financial Aid Emergency Kit, (Annual), Dr. Herm Davis and Joyce Lain Kennedy. Pocket guide to scholarships, loans, and other sources of income for college. To order, make check payable for $5.50 (includes postage and handling) payable to Sun Features, Inc., and mail to: Emergency Kit, Box 368, Cardiff, CA92007. |
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The Student Guide: Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education: 1998-99 (an annual publication). Catalog number 506X A free federal government publication. Write to: Consumer Information Center, Dept. 520Z, Pueblo, CO81009. |
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TheCollege Blue Book:Scholarships,Fellowships,Grants,and Loans. (24th edition) Sources of financial assistance are listed for high school seniors through students involved in advanced professional programs. One of a set of five volumes, $48 per volume. Thomas M. Wright, Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY10022. |
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Financing? a College Education: The Essential Guide for the 90's, Judith B. Margolin. Offers specific, practical, and easy-to-follow advice on paying for college. Includes chapters on government financial aid, private scholarships, building a college nest egg, loans, and bargains in higher education. $24.95 hardbound; $14.95 paperback. Order from: Plenum Press, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY10013 Tel. 212-620-8047/48 or 1-800-221-9369 (except New York). |
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