Scholarships and Financial Aid
Scholarships and Financial Aid
| Corporation for National Service - AmeriCorps is a program that allows participants to earn awards in return for national service, no matter whether you are in college or a career school. | Corporation for National Service or AmeriCorps |
| College Board - Provides downloadable applications for the financial aid form required by some colleges. | College Board |
| College Net Mach25 Scholarship Database - Offers more than 500,000 scholarships with options to save listing and create letters requesting more information. | College Net |
| EdFund - By clicking on schools, you will find information on planning for college and a career, applying for financial aid, and managing student loans. This site also provides sound advice on borrowing and links to other useful sites. | EdFund |
| Educations.com - Educations.com helps students who are interested in studying abroad to find information about education alternatives all over the world. This is where you find information about what education options are available, what is required for you to get in, how much it costs etc. | Educations.com |
| EdWise - EdWise is a financial planning tool developed by EdFund and the University of California, Los Angeles, to help students take charge of their future. It is easy to use and provides a printed report with the student's financial information. | EdWise |
| College Board Online Scholarship Search - Students can search this database of more than 2,000 programs that provide funding for undergraduate study from non-college sources. | College Board Online Scholarship Search |
| FastWEB - There are thousands of private scholarships available. This website boasts one of the largest free scholarship databases with over 400,000 listings. | FastWEB |
| Federal Application For Student Aid on the Web - Here students can complete and file the FAFSA and find links to the federal financial programs and PIN registration. | FAFSA on the Web |
| The Federal Student Aid Guide - Here you will find the U.S. Department of Education's The Student Guide, a free book with information on federal student aid programs. | The Federal Student Aid Guide |
| FinAid! The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid - This site brings together a good deal of information on financial aid and how to apply for it, and has a calculator to estimate expected family contribution. | FinAid! |
| Maryland Higher Education Commission - Descriptions of in-state colleges and universities, academic programs, and state financial aid programs. | Maryland Higher Education Commission |
| National Student Loan Data System - Using their PINs, students can get current information on their federal financial aid history from the federal government's central database. | National Student Loan Data System |
| Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) - This program, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will help repay student loans for registered nurses in exchange for their service in eligible facilities located in areas experiencing a shortage of nurses | NELRP |
| Personal Identification Numbers - Here students and parents can register for PINs to e-sign the FAFSA. | Personal Identification Numbers |
| Sallie Mae - Provides access to the College Aid Sources for Higher Education (CASHE) database, one of the oldest scholarship databases. | Sallie Mae |
| Scholarships - Great website for finding scholarships by major, state, athletic sport, religion, or race. | Scholarships 4U |
| Students.gov - This one-stop portal provides all the services the federal government has to offer students - from paying for college to getting a passport. | Students.gov |
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