Updated: May 15, 1999
From: Jack Mooney
RE: Applying to college and scholarship searches on the Internet.
High School students should bookmark this website on their computers:
http://www.fastweb.com/ This website contains over 400,000 scholarship
awards in their database. It is also a free service for students and
their families. Any student can develop their own academic profile, and
fastweb will email any new scholarship information to them. In August
1999, try http://www.CollegeBytes.com/ In June 1999, try
http://www.scholaraid.com/ International students should bookmark
http://www.IEFA.org/ Students with disabilities should bookmark
http://www.miusa.org/finaid.htm/
Students can find the 1997-1998 Peterson Common/Universal Application
at the following website: http://www.petersons.com/sites/extras/apps
The best website for applying to college is at
http://www.collegelink.com Collegelink is a very detailed application
used by 850 colleges. Peterson's Common App is used by 181 colleges, and
Peterson's Universal App is used by 800+ colleges.
ETS and the SAT people also have a good college application website
at: http://www.collegeboard.com/collapps/html/index000.html Students
can use this site to email their college applications directly to a
college's admission office. This site is used by 800 colleges.
Sallie Mae has a good scholarship search site at
http://search.cashe.com/ Bookmark this site, it is as good as Fastweb!
Apply to BC using Collegeedge, or Peterson's common application.
Apply to Regis College using Collegelink, or Peterson's common
application. Also use collegenet.com
Also, good scholarship sites are at http://www.gripvision.com &
http://www.freschinfo.com This free school website is as good as
Fastweb! This last one costs $9.00 to use, but worth it,
http://www.gocollege.com
Also free scholarship sites are http://www.collegenet.com/mach25/ &
http://www.finaid.org/finaid/srn.html. And
http://www.finaid.org/finaid/expan.html
And http://www.plato.org
New as of 9/20/98, a free scholarship site is http://www.fastaid.com
This site costs $15.00 but is worth it at http://www.chinook.com
Petersen's also started a free, cool college scholarship/admissions site
at http://www.collegequest.com/ Also checkout
http://www.collegeview.com/
Accounting students should bookmark these sites:
http://www.accountingstudents.com/
http://www.aicpa.org/members/div/career/careers/faq007.htm and
http://www.icpas.org/scholar.htm New on 12/5/98,
http://www.college-scholarships.com.
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