Guidance/Counseling Resources for Students
Free College Planning and Scholarship Websites
College Navigator is a free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about nearly 7,000 post-secondary institutions in the United States. It offers a wide range of information previously found on COOL -- such as programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded, campus safety, and accreditation. However, College Navigator offers users valuable new information about colleges and universities, and it does so in a way that is vastly more user-friendly.
Students, parents, and educators may use this page to request college and university catalogues, admissions applications, and information about scholarships and financial aid.
A detailed list of several available scholarships.
Search for available college loans.
This is a free scholarship search and financial aid resource. This is a very comprehensive site that has membership in the National Association of Financial Aid Administrators, which is a professional organization that sets the standards for Financial Aid professionals.
Find Missouri colleges and community colleges, scholarship information and financial aid information.
The World's largest and oldest private sector scholarship database. 20 years of Scholarship Research, Constantly updated.
Database of thousands of scholarships for high school, college, and graduate students.
FedMoney.org is the most comprehensive FREE full-text online resource on all U.S. federal government student financial aid programs.
Free scholarship searches for users. Each site may search different scholarship databases.
Free options for scholarship searches.
This is an online handbook published in 1996 by the U.S. Dept. of Ed as a resource book for parents. The topics include:
Why Attend College?
How Can my Child Prepare?
How Can my Child Choose a College?
Financing a College Education.
It's your link to over 9000 colleges and universities in the U.S.A. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community, technical, or trade school you can find them all here.
Perform college searches, research college rankings, apply to colleges, and learn more about scholarships, the ACT, SAT and PSAT.
A great website for test preparation and college planning.
This site allows you to do college and scholarship searches as well as giving you resources for help with the ACT or SAT.
Gives information on thousands of colleges, an "ask an expert" section, estimating college costs, finding scholarships and plenty of general advice on college.
This free service claims to have access to over 180,000 forms of financial aid and provides a scholarship search.
Information on preparing for, selecting, applying, paying, deciding on and financing college.
Information about the ACT and SAT tests and free test preparation.
The College Board produces the PSAT, SAT I and II. Through this page you can assess online SAT registration, complete career searches, gather information on colleges, scholarships, test information and more.
Register online, learn about test prep and test dates.
This site allows you to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and submit it for processing.
Search for colleges, scholarships and more.
College search engine with lots of tips and financial aid information.
College planning website sponsored by Sallie Mae lenders
College and scholarship search site
Research your school online, and hyperlink to your chosen school to book a campus visit
The well respected Peterson's Guide to college online.