Financial Aid

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A lot of people go to college for seven years.

Tommy in Tommy Boy (1995)

The At-a-Glance Guide to Grants

http://www.sai.com/adjunct/nafggrant.html

You’ll get links to agencies, databases, e-mail lists, templates, and tutorials.

College Financial Aid Checklist

http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/pursuit/dis-resources/high-school/preparing/financial-aid.html

Gives you suggestions and resources for paying for college. Includes a checklist of what to do during your Junior and Senior years of high school, as well as during your college years. Includes disability info resources. Also includes science, engineering, and mathematics resources.

fastWEB! (Financial Aid Search Through the Web)

http://www.fastweb.com/

Set up a personalized profile that will match your skills, abilities, and interests to fastWEB’s database of more than 275,000 scholarships. Then check your fastWEB mailbox for updates and new awards. Come back regularly for info on hot new awards and updates on current scholarships. Look in the More About Local and Federal Aid section for detailed info on other loan, work-study, and grant programs. If your school is registered with fastWEB, you’ll find info on local awards, too.

Great Lakes College Financial Aid Service

http://www.glcfas.com

This educational financial aid service lets you submit an online document to see how much financial aid you qualify for BEFORE you pay GLCFAS anything.

The Innovation Grants Competition

http://www.ml.com/woml/forum/innovation/

Over the next year, The Merrill Lynch Forum will award up to $150,000 in grants to recent Ph.D.s from universities worldwide through the Forum’s Innovation Grants Competition. The competition challenges doctoral candidates in the sciences, liberal arts, and engineering fields to examine their dissertations in light of their commercial product or service potential.

MOLIS Scholarship Search

http://www.fie.com/molis/scholar.htm

This search service provides information about scholarship opportunities for qualified minority applicants.

Rhodes Scholarship Program

http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/StudentAffairs/OIE /admin/rhodes2.html

The Rhodes Scholarship Program was created by Cecil Rhodes to enable students from the colonies and the U.S. to spend two or three years at Oxford University. This would enable young people who would become leaders of their own countries to become familiar with the values and culture of England. The program is open to men and women of any race or religion. It is well-suited for students who plan to go on in such fields as law or business, as well as those who are seeking an academic career.

Scholarship Scams

http://www.ftc.gov/WWW/bcp/conline/edcams/ scholarship/

Check this site for warnings about scholarship fraud from the Federal Trade Commission.

Student Services, Incorporated

http://web.studentservices.com/

Student Services has a database of more than 180,000 scholarships, grants, fellowships, and loans representing billions of dollars in private-sector funding for college students living in the U.S. Enter your major into the search engine to look up scholarships in that area.

Welcome to the Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation

http://www.truman.gov/

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation was established by Congress in 1975 as the official federal memorial to honor our thirty-third President. The Truman Scholarship is a highly competitive, merit-based award offered to U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals who want to go to graduate school in preparation for a career in public service. The scholarship offers recognition of outstanding potential as a leader in public service, membership in a community of persons devoted to helping others and to improving the environment, and a $30,000 grant ($27,000 of this is designated for graduate study in the U.S. or abroad in a variety of fields). Read the Bulletin of Information for guidelines and procedures.