The Internet is an
expansive realm for information about scholarships, financial aid,
and creative financing ideas from college students themselves. After
you visit the following web sites, if you still need more ideas,
other search engines can help you track them down. You may find that
some sites ask you to pay for a custom search. Our advice is to
do it yourself. If you want to pay you may do as well for $39 as
for $200. Use discretion when giving
out personal information as some sites will sell it to advertising
lists.
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Try them all, but perhaps one at a time. Print out your profile and organize
your findings in a folder (paper or electronic). If you start early enough,
go back and search each site 2 or 3 times to find any new information.
:: SuperCollege.com: www.supercollege.com -
Search a database of over 400,000 awards worth over $1.1 billion. Free,
plus good advice.
:: Fastaid: www.fastaid.com -
Bills itself as the world’s largest private sector scholarship database.
Free.
:: Scholarships.com: www.scholarships.com -
A large database and a free search, just be careful about letting them
use you name for “free offers”.
:: Student Awards: www.studentawards.com – A
free search service to help you find scholarship information. Also offers
their own unique scholarships to members.
:: Wired Scholar: www.wiredscholar.com/paying/content/index.jsp – The
loan giant Sallie Mae’s site with a free search. You don’t have to
take out a loan to use it.
:: XAP.com: www.xap.com – There
is much to do on this site, so don’t get sidetracked. Go to the Scholarship
search under “Get Money”.
:: Absolutely Scholarships: www.absolutelyscholarships.com/scholarship
This site has over 200,000 scholarship awards in their database and as
they say, "Don't pay a fee for what you can find here free!"
:: Fastweb: www.fastweb.com -
Do your own scholarship searches. Recommended.
:: Scholarship101: http://12.47.197.196/scholarships101 – Scholarship
Search as well as a Parent’s Page, a Glossary of terms, and a Government
Loan info section also.
:: SNR Express: www.srnexpress.com/index.cfm – A
database of over 8000 programs and information on student loan after
you have graduated.
:: Free Scholarships: www.freschinfo.com/index.phtml -
A site with great advice, free searches and some contests too.
:: (Not ranked) About.Com: www.about.com -
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