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Internet Sites for Pre-college Guidance and Counseling
Clicking on one of these topics will take you to a list of Web sites:
    Top College Searches
    College Admission Testing  
    The Student Athlete  
    Special Group Searches
    Financial Aid and Loan Information 
    Private Scholarships
    Career Information Sites
    Florida Colleges and Universities
    Other College Home Pages
    Related Sites   New Site Added

College Preparation Begins in High School!!

 

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Top College Searches on the Web
 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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College Admission Testing
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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The Student Athlete
 National Scouting Report  
 NCAA Clearinghouse   National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
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Special Group Searches
 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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Financial Aid and Loan Information
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.
 101 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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Private Scholarships
 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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Career Information Sites
 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 Colleges and Universities
 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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Other College Home Pages
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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Related Sites
Marketers Target Kids Who Seek and Edge  Published in the April 8, 2007 edition of the Orlando Sentinel  
New
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

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