Financial Aid and Scholarships:
Scholarship Experts Database. The first thing that grabs your attention when you browse over to the website is the catchy title: The Fastest Way To Free College Money. If you like fast and free money, this is the website for you. The scholarships listings in this database seem balanced between fairly well know scholarships and more eclectic listings. What I like about this scholarship search site is how well designed the user interface is.
www.scholarshipexperts.com
Fastweb Scholarship Database: Fastweb is easily the most “commercial” of the scholarship database websites, with consumer product offers interwoven into its scholarship results lists. The database features an easy-to-use interface, a personal user mailbox, and a regular stream of e-mail that advises the user of “new” awards (even though these are more likely awards that have been previously withheld).
http://www.fastweb.com/college-scholarships
CollegeTreasure.com. Using College Treasure.com is one of the quickest and easiest ways to find merit based scholarships and academic scholarships for college! Simply use their quick search and enter in your SAT score, your GPA, and the states where you want to go to school, and then you will have a list of colleges where you are eligible for merit based scholarships.
www.collegetreasure.com
The College Scorecard includes essential information about a particular college’s costs, its graduation rates and the average amount its students borrow, all in a standardized, easy-to-read format. It is designed to help you compare colleges and choose one that is well-suited to your individual needs.
collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard
The Net Price Calculator Center provides you a tool to explore the net price of any given college – that is, the price after subtracting the scholarships and grants you are likely to receive. Then, you can easily compare estimated net prices across the institutions that you are considering.
collegecost.ed.gov/netpricecenter.aspx
Shopping Sheet. Many schools will send you a Shopping Sheet if they offer you a financial aid package. The Shopping Sheet provides personalized information on financial aid and net costs as well as general information on institutional outcomes – all in a standardized format. This tool provides an easy way to make clear comparisons among financial aid offers that you may receive.
collegecost.ed.gov/shopping_sheet.pd
FAFSA: The FAFSA is the application you will use to apply for the federal student aid programs offered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). All students interested in receiving financial aid must file out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). This is the federal form every single school that offers any type of federal funding is going to require you to fill out. The information provided on the FASFA form produces the family’s primary EFC figure; the amount of money that, once subtracted from college costs will establish eligibility for federal student aid, and in most cases, state student aid. Some states use a separate application to determine eligibility for state-based awards.
https://fafsa.ed.gov/
The Federal Student Aid site is a wonderful site loaded with an enormous amount of helpful information covering all aspects of the college financial aid process The information will certainly shorten the learning curve for families who need answers sooner rather than after the fact. Reader beware, misinterpreting the information provided on this websites and others mentioned can have a negative impact on a families situation. It's recommended that professional help be sought.
www.studentaid.ed.gov
FinAid! Considered to be "The SmartStudent guide to financial aid". This site offers links to Financial aid applications, calculators, military aids and loans. You'll find this website to be easy to navigate with a number of articles on financial aid. Additional articles are offered explaining the financial process to students and families.
www.finaid.org
Scholarship Experts Database. The first thing that grabs your attention when you browse over to the website is the catchy title: The Fastest Way To Free College Money. If you like fast and free money, this is the website for you. The scholarships listings in this database seem balanced between fairly well know scholarships and more eclectic listings. What I like about this scholarship search site is how well designed the user interface is.
www.scholarshipexperts.com
Fastweb Scholarship Database: Fastweb is easily the most “commercial” of the scholarship database websites, with consumer product offers interwoven into its scholarship results lists. The database features an easy-to-use interface, a personal user mailbox, and a regular stream of e-mail that advises the user of “new” awards (even though these are more likely awards that have been previously withheld).
http://www.fastweb.com/college-scholarships
CollegeTreasure.com. Using College Treasure.com is one of the quickest and easiest ways to find merit based scholarships and academic scholarships for college! Simply use their quick search and enter in your SAT score, your GPA, and the states where you want to go to school, and then you will have a list of colleges where you are eligible for merit based scholarships.
www.collegetreasure.com
The College Scorecard includes essential information about a particular college’s costs, its graduation rates and the average amount its students borrow, all in a standardized, easy-to-read format. It is designed to help you compare colleges and choose one that is well-suited to your individual needs.
collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard
The Net Price Calculator Center provides you a tool to explore the net price of any given college – that is, the price after subtracting the scholarships and grants you are likely to receive. Then, you can easily compare estimated net prices across the institutions that you are considering.
collegecost.ed.gov/netpricecenter.aspx
Shopping Sheet. Many schools will send you a Shopping Sheet if they offer you a financial aid package. The Shopping Sheet provides personalized information on financial aid and net costs as well as general information on institutional outcomes – all in a standardized format. This tool provides an easy way to make clear comparisons among financial aid offers that you may receive.
collegecost.ed.gov/shopping_sheet.pd
FAFSA: The FAFSA is the application you will use to apply for the federal student aid programs offered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). All students interested in receiving financial aid must file out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). This is the federal form every single school that offers any type of federal funding is going to require you to fill out. The information provided on the FASFA form produces the family’s primary EFC figure; the amount of money that, once subtracted from college costs will establish eligibility for federal student aid, and in most cases, state student aid. Some states use a separate application to determine eligibility for state-based awards.
https://fafsa.ed.gov/
The Federal Student Aid site is a wonderful site loaded with an enormous amount of helpful information covering all aspects of the college financial aid process The information will certainly shorten the learning curve for families who need answers sooner rather than after the fact. Reader beware, misinterpreting the information provided on this websites and others mentioned can have a negative impact on a families situation. It's recommended that professional help be sought.
www.studentaid.ed.gov
FinAid! Considered to be "The SmartStudent guide to financial aid". This site offers links to Financial aid applications, calculators, military aids and loans. You'll find this website to be easy to navigate with a number of articles on financial aid. Additional articles are offered explaining the financial process to students and families.
www.finaid.org