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Useful Tools and Websites for Preparing
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- Get
Ready For College
This free toolkit provided by TERI has useful information about
preparing for college during high school, with activities to do
each year of high school in order to be ready to apply to college
senior year. It also includes checklists and a glossary to explain
terms associated with higher education.
- Making
College Affordable
This free toolkit provided by TERI has useful information about
financial aid and paying for college.
- Mission:
Possible!
This free toolkit provided by the Sallie Mae Fund has useful information
about preparing for college during high school, including financial
aid information and checklists of what to do during each year
of high school in order to be ready to apply to college senior
year.
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Top 10 Tips for College Admissions and Financial Aid
This information card provided by the Sallie Mae Fund has valuable
links to helpful websites for the college preparation and financial
aid search processes.
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- College Foundation of North Carolina
This website is incredibly useful for any North Carolina student
applying to colleges in NC. It has valuable financial aid information,
a career center, a student planner, and information about applying
to NC colleges, as well as the option of applying to colleges
and universities in NC through the actual website. Check out their
downloadable
resources link to find great pamphlets about different aspects
of the college preparation process.
- Fast Web
This website has one of the most extensive and in-depth scholarship
search engines out there, a college search, and useful tips and
articles about the college preparation process.
- The
Princeton Review
This website has college searches, standardized test preparation
tools, financial aid information, and advice from admissions experts
about applying to college.
- Peterson’s
This website has college preparation timelines, college searches,
standardized test preparation tools, scholarship searches, and
much more.
- The White
House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
This bilingual site has information on planning for college, taking
the standardized tests needed to apply to college, finding the
right one, getting into college, and paying for it.
- Careersandcollege.com
This site has college searches as well as scholarship searches,
and gives information on financial aid, careers, and the process
of finding the right college.
- Hobsons CollegeView
This site allows students to do college searches to find good
matches for them. It also has a very helpful financial aid website
and a careers and majors section for those needing help in those
decisions. Additionally, it includes useful information about
the college application process.
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All About College.com
This site provides lists of links to websites that address various
topics relating to college including financial aid, test preparation,
fraternities and sororities, study abroad, research papers, and
job searches.
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