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Links
to Recommended Websites
General Links
- College
Board Online Excellent tool for college admissions:
planning, searching, applying and paying for college. Register online
for the SAT, view and send your SAT scores, and find all the information
you need -- including exam dates and fees -- for the SAT
I, SAT II: Subject Tests, PSAT/NMSQT, AP, and CLEP.
- The
Princeton Review Guides for undergraduate, graduate,
medical, law and business schools. Advice for career exploration.
Home of 351 Best College Rankings, students vote on the greatest profs,
worst food, and poshest dorms and more! Check how schools rate online.
- College
View One of the better college search-engines, comprehensive
college planning site. Has an excellent database that's easy to use.
Best place to find addresses, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers. Look
for Key Facts for each college.
- Peterson's
Colleges and Universities Total college-planning site
including search, test prep and financial aid.
- Online
College Network Let the schools search for you: File
online a profile for athletics, the arts or academic accomplishments.
Access to your profile is limited to colleges using a password. Kingwood
High School’s password is Mustang.
- Kaplan
Test Prep and Admissions Explore this site for testing,
admissions, college life, health and medical degrees and professional
degrees.
- U.S.
Universities, Alphabetic
- U.S.
Universities, by State
- Global
Computing Links to American Universities
- IPEDS
College Opportunities On-line College Opportunities
On-Line by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S.
Department of Education. NCES was authorized by Congress in 1998 to
help college students, future students, and their parents understand
the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college.
- National
Association for College Admission Counseling College
admissions and college counselors belong to this national association.
For all the latest changes and innovations in admissions and financial
aid, check here.
- NCAA
Guide for the College Bound Student Athlete
- OCCUPATIONAL
OUTLOOK HANDBOOK Career information by occupation. Excellent
resource for career preparation and information.
- College
Preparation
- College
Net CollegeNET, Inc. is the world's leading 'virtual
plumber' for higher education internet transactions. We provide here
for your convenience over 1500 customized Internet admissions applications
built for college and university programs. When applying to more than
one program you save redundant typing since common data automatically
travels from form to form.
- Wired
Scholar - the Planning for College Destination
- International
Senimar Series: Service Learning in Paris The
Service Learning Program in Paris seeks students who are energetic
and want to work, both intellectually and physically, to be involved,
and to get to know people of other cultures. This asks for independence,
adventurousness, curiosity, and flexibility. Those who enroll must
be willing, literally and figuratively, to roll up their sleeves.
Military Links
The Defense Department
Test Preparation Links
Scholarship and Financial Aid Links
- College
Board: Pay for College
Understand all of your options when it comes to paying for college.
We can help you get the latest information about college costs, scholarships,
financial aid applications, education loans, and college financing.
- FAFSA
Has online forms and filing with information about FAFSA
- Students
Gateway to the Government
The Student Guide
The most comprehensive resource on student financial aid
from the U.S. Department of Education. Grants, loans, and work-study
are the three major forms of student financial aid available through
the Department's Student Financial Assistance office. Updated each
award year, The Student Guide tells you about the programs and how
to apply for them.
- Texas
Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation
Private, non-profit corporation designated to administer the Federal
Family Education Loan Program (FFELP).
P. O. Box 201725
Austin, TX 78720-1725
(512) 219-5700
(800) 845-6267
FAX: (512) 219-4633
E-Mail: cust.assist@tgslc.org
- The
SmartStudent's Guide to Financial Aid
Was established in the fall of 1994 as
a public service. This award-winning site has grown into the most
comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial
aid on the web.
- FastWEB
(Financial Aid Search through the WEB) is a searchable database of
more than 275,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants,
and loans from more than 10,000 sources worth more than $775 million.
It has a facility to notify you by e-mail when new scholarships meeting
your qualifications come available.
- Scholarship
Coach
I'm your virtual Scholarship Coach! As you use this site, my goal
is to help you find and win college cash. So are you ready? The road
to scholarship success begins now. By Ben
Kaplan author of "How to go to College for Free"
- FastWeb
Scholarship Guide
Get help finding scholarships that will fit your needs.
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document is in is in .pdf format. You must have the free Adobe
Reader to view it
- FastWeb
Scholarship Scams
As with many things in the world today people are trying to get something
for nothing through "Scholarship Scams". Read this article
to find out how to avoid being SCAMMED.
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document is in is in .pdf format. You must have the free Adobe
Reader to view it.
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