Articles of Interest

This page contains articles and links to college and financial aid information for high school students and their parents.

Articles

Surveys Reveal Dramatic Shift In Who's Hiring College Graduates from National Association of Colleges and Employers

NACE Press Room from National Association of Colleges and Employers

Parent & Student Info form The National Association for College Admission Counseling

Preparing for College: A Guide for Students, Families and Educators from the Rhode Island Office of Higher Education

Web Sites

CampusTours - Visit a college without leaving home. This site has virtual tours for many colleges nationwide.

College 411 - Information for minorities, financial aid, college search, internships and study abroad, general information and parents.

College Board Online - Invaluable resource for the college bound student. Visitors to this site will find SAT question of the day, online SAT registration, College Board test dates, CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE, college search, apply to colleges online.

College Is Possible - A resource guide for parents, students and education professionals.

CollegeNET - Launched in 1995, CollegeNET is the #1 portal for applying to college over the web. Not a diskette, CD or download system, CollegeNET lets applicants complete, file and pay for their admissions applications entirely through the Internet. Over 350 colleges and universities contracted with us to serve their official web-based admissions applications. While these applications are also directly accessible from university homepages, they are presented here for your convenient access and use.

CollegeView - Virtual campus tours, financial aid answers and resources, online school applications, and career information.

CollegeQuest - Find and compare colleges. Information on college test and financial aid plus a whole host of articles and other resources for the college bound student.

College and Careers - Search for colleges, scholarships and loans.

Community College Web - Search for links to two-year colleges in the U.S. or Canada.

Direct Loans for Students - US Department of Education - find out about applying for Direct Loans, learn about your options for repayment, use the interactive calculators, download Direct Loan deferment and forbearance forms, get information about Direct Consolidation Loans and use FAFSA on the web.

Educational Testing Service - Information and schedules for SAT, CLEP, GRE and other academic tests.

FastWEB - The most popular financial aid database features a searchable database of 400,000 scholarships that's updated daily. Free!

FinAid - A financial aid and scholarship research tool is growing at about 30 percent a year. Free! FinAid also contains a worthwhile section on scholarship scams. It warns scholarship seekers to be wary of services that guarantee success, require an application fee or are really just sales pitches disguised as financial aid "seminars."

FreSch! - A database of over 1,900 sources of scholarships, representing approximately 130,000 awards. Your first step should be to PowerSearch the database. Free!

GoCollege - A reliable web-based scholarship search.

Ohio Board of Regents - Information about all of Ohio's colleges and universities, financial aid and college access initiatives and programs.

Ohio Department of Education - Parent site

RWN Vocational School Database - Provides a database of Private Postsecondary Vocational Schools in all 50 states. It is organized first by State, then by Training Occupation. Also, has listing for distance learning schools in the US.

Sallie Mae College Answers - Planning for College Destination

Scholarship Resource Network Express - A database of over 8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students worth more than $35 million! This database also includes student loan forgiveness programs for those who have graduated from college and need alternatives for repayment.

The Mach 25 - A database that contains over 600,000 scholarship awards totaling over $1.6 billion. Mark the filters to narrow down the number of awards displayed on your results page. Free!

The Princeton Review - Explore schools, raise your entrance test scores, complete online applications and search for scholarships.

ULinks - Information about colleges or universities in the USA. Also, website links to over 2200 colleges, universities, trade schools and much more, all listed by category, state and alphabet.

US Two-Year Colleges - A comprehensive list of two-year colleges in the United States. It includes community colleges, technical colleges, junior colleges, branches of four-year colleges which offer associate degree education, and accredited two-year proprietary schools.