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FACTS.ORG - It's All Academic
Florida's online gateway for high school and college information.
Almost everything in one spot from the State of Florida - choosing a college, picking a
major, college admissions,
financial aid, academic advising, transcripts, degree audits, and more!!
College Board Online
Permits you to use the college search software ExPAN online and for free
www.collegefair.tv
- A large collection of admissions videos for top U.S colleges and universities,
all available instantly through streaming video
College Net "The
internet guide to colleges and universities." This is a searchable
database of
colleges, scholarship opportunities and academic resources. It offers
a comprehensive
college/university index with good graphics and some interesting resources
for financial aid
and scholarships. They have recently begun offering on-line application
processing (for
featured schools only).
College View
Examines more than 3800 colleges to help you find the one right for you
Florida Next
My College Guide (FishNet) Get information
on colleges via their college search page; create a profile of yourself
to
send to colleges; ask questions of their admission expert; get information
about paying for
college; read a collection of articles about college and the admission
process.
U.S. News and World Report's
College and Careers Center Users can sort through information on
almost 400 colleges by rank, cost, region, academic programs, and other
criteria. It also
has links to the colleges's own web sites and to relevant stories form
the magazine's electronic
archive. It also provides links to colleges that let prospective
students apply on line.
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ACT Register for the ACT
College Board
Register for the SAT
Educational Testing Service
Home of the SAT, GRE, AP, TOEFL and other testing services
Test of English as a Foreign Language
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National Scouting Report
NCAA Clearinghouse
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
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Historically
Black College and Universities
Jesuit Colleges and Universities
This service will help you search, link to and request an application
from Jesuit college and universities in the United States.
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Hacking Financial Aid-33 Ways To Get Money for College
An Opportunities Scholarship Book
The Federal Government
The largest provider of financial aid, the federal government has a
great deal of information on student financial aid on it's web. Here
are two good sites to
start and link around.
Site
1 - Office of Post Secondary Education
Site
2 - Dept. of Education, Financial Aid Student Guide
Federal Student Aid - One site for finanical aid. All the answers
Complete your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online
Know How To Spot
Scholarship Scams
The Federal Trade Commission offers information on avoiding
scholarship scams
Avoid Seminars
on Scholarship "Secrets" The Washington Post article
Bureau of Student
Financial Assistance Florida Department of Education (MONEY
FROM THE STATE
OF FLORIDA INCLUDING
FLORIDA'S BRIGHT FUTURES SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM )
Bright Futures Scholarships
From the State of Florida
nelnet Head quartered
in Lincoln, Nebraska, The National Higher Education Loan
Program, Inc. is a management services corporation for federal
student loans.
Guide to Financial Aid
This site provides the best links to sources
of information about student
financial aid on the Internet. Comprehensive and current information on
topics as diverse
as athletic scholarhips, tuition in foreign countries, and budgeting.
Simply the best financial aid site.
Fastweb Free Scholarship Search
Bridges Five, $1000 scholarships
for students who display initiative in career planning
(for a special Olympia
High School Students and Faculty link, click here)
Mach 25
Listings of more than 500,000 American private sector awards by College
Net. It
uses residential, academic, personal and organizational affiliation to
create matches.
Nelliemae Along
with general information on student aid, it offers calculators, including
one that
helps you compare financial aid award packages of the schools that accept
your child.
Low Cost
Resources on Funding Request information by telephone or mail
Salliemae has useful
calculators that let you figure out your family's expected contribution
to
college costs and how much you need to invest to meet a particular savings
goal. It also
has a scholarship search program, and a host of other information on financial
aid.
2003 Colleges,
Universities and Scholarships Admissions office email addresses,
telephone numbers,
and financial aid office email addresses of thousands of colleges and universities
throughout
the United States. The page also features hot links to college web pages
and online applications.
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Top College, University and Scholarship Pages Links to free scholarship
search services, college
"matching" data bases, SAT practice tests, traditional African-American
colleges, graduate
school information
William
D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Explains how students can
borrow from the federal
government.
Chela
Financial A San Francisco based nonprofit based nonprofit corporation
with more than $1 billion
in assets, was created specifically to offer financial access and assistance
to student pursuing
higher education. This site also has good information about paying
off loans.
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College Board's Fund Finder
Similar to Fast Web. Ethnic and Minority Scholarships
Black Excel: The College
Help Network A college admission and scholarship service
for
African-Americans. Black Excel services have expanded over the years
to include an
updated 350+ Scholarship List, a personalized College Help Package, a quarterly
newsletter, a reference guide to 143 Historically Black Colleges.
Hispanic Educational Foundation
(HEF) The HEF offers scholarships at a local level and
currently the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas,
Michigan,
Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Washington
DC
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College
Board Career Search Questionnaire Try the Questionnaire
and check "ALL
CAREERS" information
Careers From the
Wall Street Journal
Career Explorer (for
special Olympia
High School Student/Faculty link, click here)
On-Line
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Career Centers
at various universities
On-line Job Search (Job Web)
The Monster Board
Career Builder
Quintessential
Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide for Teens
Net Temps
Florida State Board of Independent Colleges and Universities
Toll Free
Consumer Protection Hotline 1-888-224-6684
Bethune Cookman College
Daytona Beach
Brevard Community College Cocoa
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach
Flagler College St. Augustine
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
(A&M) Tallahassee
Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton
Florida Gulf Coast University Ft.
Myers
Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne
Florida International University Miami
Florida State University Tallahassee
Florida Southern College Lakeland
Jacksonville University Jacksonville
Lake-Sumter Community College
Leesburg
Rollins College Winter Park
Seminole Community College
Sanford
Stetson University Deland
University of Central Florida
Orlando
University of Florida Gainesville
University of Miami Miami
University of North Florida Jacksonville
University of South Florida Tampa
University of Tampa Tampa
University of West Florida Pensacola
Valencia Community College
Orlando
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Amberton College
A private, Christian, Higher Professional Online Education - Dallas, Texas
Air Force Academy (United States)
Colorado Spring, Co.
Berea College Berea, Ky
- All 1500 students work 10-15 hours a week as part
of the four-year full-tuition scholarship worth $60,000
Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art New York - This highly
selective program provides all 883 students in the schools of arts, engineering,
or architecture a full-tuition scholarship worth up to $85,000 over four
years.
Elon College Elon College,
North Carolina
Goucher College Baltimore,
Maryland
Hampshire College Amherst, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Indiana University Bloomington,
Indiana
Tusculum College
Greeneville, Tennessee - Take one course at a time
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
More Listings
You can get to almost any college or university from here.
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Marketers Target Kids Who Seek and Edge Published in the
April 8, 2007 edition of the Orlando Sentinel
Ultimate College Checklist Published in the
August 22, 2005 edition of Newsweek
Education Index An
extensive yet selective guide to educational information
Florida Virtual School Register to take courses on line
Info Please A one stop place for lots of knowledge
FIRN
Florida Information Resource Network (for Education)
Florida
Department of Education
Protect
yourself from Internet scams (Consumers Reports Dec. 1997
article)
Marblehead
High School Marblehead. MA An interesting High School
Guidance Site
Millard
South High School Omaha, NE Millard South Counseling Center
Site
Carl Sandburg
High School Orland Park, Illinois A really great High School
Guidance Site