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Collegiate
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The Mary M. Fraijo Scholarship
Accounting Majors -
Scholarship Application for Pacific Inland Northwest Residents to attend Local and
National Colleges |
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COMPREHENSIVE
GUIDES
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- American School Counselor Association
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www.edge.net/asca/links.html
- Links to college home pages and to high school home
pages that offer Internet lesson plans, career tips, and other useful information. Also
advise on how to write an application essay.
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- Peterson’s Education & Career Center
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www.petersons.com/ugrad/
- Campus news, advice on writing application essays, and
an engine for college searches.
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- The College Board
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www.collegeboard.org
- A lot of useful information about campus visits,
interviews, and other parts of the college search process. Downloadable applications for
over 800 colleges and a slid, comprehensive search engine. There is also an abundance of
information on the SAT.
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- U.S. News College and Careers Center
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www.usnews.com
- College rankings, advice from high school counselors
and financial aid experts, a comprehensive college search engine, and college links
galore.
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COLLEGE SEARCH
SITES |
- Embark.com
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www.embark.com
- A search engine with variables such as school size but
few campus life variables such as diversity. A good searchable scholarship database, for
which you must register, plus articles and chat forums.
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- Collegenet
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www.collegenet.com
- Cool-looking site with an enormous searchable database
of schools, plus links to the colleges. Such variables include state or region, majors,
and tuition. The lack of a selectivity variable, however, means it may be touch to narrow
the field.
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- College View
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www.collegeview.com
- One of the most detailed search engines on the Net,
with wide-ranging criteria that include diversity, filed of study, religious affiliation,
athletics, and services for disabled students.
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- College Zine
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www.kaplan.com
- Extensive links to colleges and universities. Advice on
interviews and admission.
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- The Princeton Review
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www.princetonreview.com
- A pretty good search engine with a wide variety of
variables, including location, academics, sports, student life, and housing.
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FINANCIAL
AID |
- FAFSA on the Web
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www.fafsa.ed.gov
- Interactive Web version of the Free Application for
Federal Student Aid
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- FastWeb
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www.fastweb.com
- A free, searchable scholarship database that enables
you to locate sources of financial aid that are suitable for you.
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- Financial Aid Information Page
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www.finaid.org
- Rich offerings on everything from scam alerts to
scholarship searches.
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- EStudent Loan
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http://www.estudentloan.com
- Looking for the fastest way to the best student loan?
Match your specific needs with up to 12 loan programs from top lenders. It's fast and
free!
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- The Student Guide
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www.ed.gov/prog_infor/SFA
- Financial aid primer from the U.S. Department o
Education, plus FAFSA
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