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Books and Links for Financial Aid
Books and Links for Financial Aid
Links to Financial Aid and Scholarship Databases- FinAid at www.finaid.com
An award winning site featuring information regarding student financial aid, FinAid provides lists of scholarships as well as links to additional scholarship databases and search engines. - FastWeb at www.fastweb.monster.com
The most comprehensive and popular database of scholarships will provide automatic e-mail notification of scholarships which match a student's profile. Watch out for ads and promotional offers. - College Board's FUNDFINDER
The College Board's comprehensive site includes a scholarship database lists as well as information regarding financing. - SRN Express
SRN is a smaller database of non-need based scholarships.
Links to Financial Aid Forms
- FAFSA
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid required for all financial aid applications. - CSS/Profile
The Profile is used by many colleges to award institutional financial aid funds.
Expected Family Contribution Calculators
Many different sites provide opportunities to estimate expected family contribution. These links go to the relevant portions of larger sites:
Books
- Meeting College Costs (College Board 2005) A workbook providing references, worksheets, reminders, tips and questions to ask about each step of the financial aid process.
- The College Board Scholarship Handbook (CollegeBoard 2005) Over 2,000 scholarships, internships and loan programs usefully indexed.
- The B Student's Complete Scholarship Book (Sourcebook) A guide to college financial aid for students with "average" grades, approximately half of the non-government financial aid opportunities in the book are college-specific.
- Peterson's Scholarships, Grants and Prizes (Peterson's 2005) This well researched listing of private source awards features a CD-ROM.
