Links
Campus Visits
College Applications
College Search
- Big Future
- College Navigator
- College Results (diversity & graduation rates)
- Colleges That Change Lives
- Find Your Niche (student reviews)
- IPEDS (education statistics)
- NACAC College Fairs
Financial Aid
- Big Future (financial aid tools/calculators, etc.)
- College Navigator
- CSS Profile College Scholarship Service
- FAFSA Free Application Federal Student Aid
- FAFSA4caster (estimating financial aid eligibility)
- Federal Student Aid ID
Gap Years & Community Service
- Gap Year Association
- “Gap Year Ideas for College Students” New York Times
- Global Leadership Adventures (“Gap light” with programs lasting weeks, not months)
- Plan My Gap Year
- Projects Abroad
- Student Conservation Association
- Teen Life
- USA Gap Year Fairs
- Volunteen Nation
- Where There Be Dragons (travel abroad)
Higher Education Abroad
- Canadian Universities
- The Center for Global Education
- Universities UK (higher education in the United Kingdom)
International Students in U.S.
- DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
- EduPASS! (guide to studying in the USA)
- International Student Financial Aid
- National Association of Credential Evaluation Services
- TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language
- University Language (translation services)
- WES World Education Services
Personality Profilers
Published Data
- “Great Jobs Great Lives” 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index Report
- “Preparation for College Admission Exams” Derek Briggs, PhD
- “Occupational Outlook Handbook” Bureau of Labor Statistics
Scholarships
- Cappex
- Collegescholarships.org
- Fastweb
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- ROTC Programs: Today’s Military
- Scholarships.com
Special Interests
- Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities
- Black Excel
- Campus Pride Index
- Catholic Colleges & Universities in the U.S.
- Center for American Progress “Imperative to Support Single Mothers in College”
- HBCU Historically Black Colleges & Universities
- Hillel International (Jewish campus organization)
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
- Transgender College Student Resource Guide
- Women’s College Coalition
Special Needs
- CHADD (national college resource on ADHD)
- College Web LD (learning disabilities)
- LD Online (learning disabilities & ADHD)
- NCCSD National Center for College Students with Disabilities
- NCLD National Center for Learning Disabilities
Talent (athletic, artistic, etc.)
Testing
- ACT
- College Board
- FairTest (test-optional colleges)
- Khan Academy (self-prep with actual SAT tests & AP support)
Vocations
- Career Addict “An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Career”
- mikeroweWorks Foundation (scholarships for the trades)
- O*Net OnLine (matching interests with vocations)
- “Occupational Outlook Handbook” Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Our Forces U.S. Department of Defense
Writing Workshop
- OWL Purdue University Online Writing Lab
- “Essays That Worked” Johns Hopkins University
- “Past Essays that Mattered” Tufts University
- “Let Me Introduce Myself” Stanford University
- * Miscellaneous
- “Let’s End the Craziness of College Admissions” Washington Post
- Lifehacker
- 70 Things You Can Score with Your Student ID