Links to scholarships and financial aid.
Scholarships and Financial Aid

Students can register here to take the ACT exam or have their ACT scores sent to colleges.
ACT

Students can plug in their major, interests, and geographic area, and this U.S. Department of Education site will fetch likely matches from profiles of more than 9,000 colleges and career schools.
College Opportunities Online

Students can view the websites of potential universities, colleges, and community colleges they might be interested in going. (*See Below)
Links to all universities, colleges, and community colleges

This website helps you think about job/career possibilities.
Job Interests

This destination offers steps toward college and a career for middle and high school students, college students, borrowers, nontraditional students, and parents.
Mapping Your Future

Maryland Higher Education Commission - Descriptions of in-state colleges and universities, academic programs, and state financial aid programs.
Maryland Higher Education Commission

After a brief interview, MyMajors recommends six majors to the student from among the 63 most commonly offered 4-year college and university majors. MyMajors offers information about these majors, such as what it is, what kinds of courses are involved, what kinds of careers the major leads to, and it provides links to interesting sites related to that major. Links to university departmental sites are being added that show specifically what course sequences students would actually take.
My Majors

The following site will give you practice tests for the SATs & ACTs. It requires registration, which is free.
SAT, ACT, and GRE prep and vocabulary builder

Students can register for the SAT exam or have SAT scores sent to schools from this site. There's also good information on planning and paying for college.
Online SAT registration, SAT test preparation, college search website

Review crime statistics for most colleges, universities, and career schools.
Security

For the following website, look at the blue column to the left to pick your area of interest. Then, explore the careers you may be interested in by clicking on them. It will give you the description of the job, working conditions (i.e.- hours per week, setting, etc.), number employed last year, training and qualifications needed, possible advancement, job outlook, job earnings, and related jobs.
U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics

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