College and Career Information on the Internet
Interested in exploring what various careers can offer? Need information on colleges and financial aid? Planning to take the SATs or ACTs? Check out the sites listed below!
America's
Career Infonet
Find wage and employment trends, occupational
requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, extensive career resource
library online, and more.
Black
Collegian Online
Provides cutting-edge information on career resources for Black collegians.
Career
Resource Library
From the NYS Department of Labor, a
compilation of publications and links to assist in career planning and job
search guidance.
Internet
Public Library Career Paths
This site is divided into three sections. The
first is Career
Choices; click here to visit a page that contains a list of sites that will
help you narrow down your career choice. Once you have narrowed down your career
interests, click on Career
Biographies for professional insight into individual careers. Finally, you
can visit Career
Preparation to learn interview, cover letter, and resume tips.
Job
Profiles.com
Experienced workers share the rewards,
stresses, and challenges of their jobs, as well as advice on entering the field
and basic skills needed.
JobStar
Central
Job search guide compiled by the public
library, it offers sites packed with information about planning a career. What
kind of training or education is required? What can you earn? What kind of
environment will you work in? What's hot? What's not?
JobWeb
Employment information, job search tools, extensive resources, assistance with
interviewing and resume writing.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook
is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide
valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work
lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what
workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed,
earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
Students.Gov
Organized by categories
that include career development and military service.
2001 Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid
Page
Online directory of college and university admissions office email addresses and telephone numbers, college scholarship and financial aid office email addresses, and links to the home pages and online applications of more than a thousand colleges and
universities; links to college and university admissions, college scholarship, and financial aid pages on the
web; information on graduate schools, the GRE and GMAT examinations, MBA programs, the
TOEFL, community colleges, historically African-American colleges, and campus life.
The
Admissions Office
Links to colleges and universities in the U.S. Lisa (Live Internet Selection Assistance) is available to answer questions that students and counselors might have about
admissions; links to financial aid, scholarships, online applications, and more.
Black
Collegian Online
Provides cutting-edge information on
college and career resources for Black collegians.
College
Is Possible
America's colleges and universities have prepared this site to guide you to the books, websites, and other resources that admissions and financial aid professionals consider most
helpful. Answers such questions as: How does the application process work? What sort of college is right for me? How much will college
cost?
CollegeNET
Search for colleges/universities that match your
specific criteria: location, size, cost, major and more and link directly
to the college site; apply to colleges online; links to financial
aid and scholarships.
College
View
Gives students and parents a general overview of a college, plus a direct e-mail option for requesting additional
information; includes special interest colleges (Christian, ethnic, etc.).
College
Xpress
Find information on America’s best private colleges and universities, including admissions, financial aid, and college life.
Ecola’s College Locator
Search by state; links to
over 2300 colleges and institutions; provides direct links to online
college newspapers.
Embark
Offers information and tools that help students succeed in discovering, applying to the right school, information and guidance on scholarships, careers, majors, and financial
aid.
NCAA
Guide for the College-Bound Student Athlete
Official NCAA site for
athletes who want to explore
college options.
New York's
Private Colleges & Universities
College profiles with links
to the colleges, admissions, and financial aid.
New
York State Higher Education Service Corporation
Explore higher education
in NYS; links to financial aid information including grants and the TAP award;
apply online for loans; included financial aid calculator.
Peterson's
Education System
Search the Peterson's
databases, request
information, download applications, and interact with college faculty and
administrators.
Studyabroad.com
Interested in studying or doing an internship
abroad? Try this site!
Students.Gov
Organized by categories—plan your education, pay for your education, taxes, and career
development.
U.S.
News.com
This Colleges feature provides rankings of
America's Best Colleges, with all the info of the print article plus links to
the colleges; links to Obik
Explorer (find majors
and career paths that best suit you); links to Fiske
campus profiles (the inside story on 300+ schools); as well as interactive
tools: Family
Contribution Calculator, College
search, and More
tools to help
you master the application process, do your best on the tests, and understand
the complicated world of financial aid.
4Scholarships.com
Links to scholarships, colleges, scams to
watch for, and information for minorities.
2001 Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid
Page
Among the many offerings at this site are
links to free scholarship searches and various other scholarship websites.
2001 Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid
Page: Athletic Scholarships
Links to NCAA Division I and Division II
institutions, and some NAIA and NJCAA institutions offering baseball
scholarships, basketball scholarships, cross country scholarships, crew
scholarships, fencing scholarships, field hockey scholarships, golf
scholarships, hockey scholarships, lacrosse scholarships, soccer scholarships,
softball scholarships, swimming scholarships, track scholarships, volleyball
scholarships, and wrestling scholarships.
Absolutely
Scholarships
This site offers free scholarship search and
application information to over 200,000 scholarship awards.
Athletic
Scholarships
Links, advice, and other information
about national athletic scholarships and college athletics compiled by the
Arkansas Scholarship Information Service.
College
Scholarships.com
Listing free college scholarship information
posted monthly.
Collegiate
Funding
A free resource designed to guide students and parents through the various aspects of the financial aid
process from the Collegiate Funding Group.
Educaid:
The Financial Aid Process
Covers all types of financial aid
available and how to apply.
FAFSA
Complete your Free Application for Federal
Student Aid (FAFSA) online.
FASTaid
Claims to be the world's largest and oldest private sector College Scholarship database.
FastWeb!
Great free service-sign up and receive updates
on scholarship information.
Federal
Student Financial Assistance
Financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education;
provides general information about the major federal student aid programs (who is eligible and how to apply), tax credits for education expenses, and other federal, state, and private sources of
information; covers FAFSA and student loans.
FinAid!
Comprehensive financial aid website with
links to scholarships, grants, loans, military aid, online application forms,
calculators, and experts to advise; also includes links to online info about
testing, college admissions and jobs.
Guaranteed
Scholarships
Listing by schools of scholarships which are unlimited in
number and require no interview, essay, portfolio, audition, competition or other "secondary"
requirement meet the criteria listed, adhere to the application deadlines set by the individual colleges and universities, gain admission, enroll, and
receive your scholarship or scholarships.
Higher
Education Services Corporation
Provides information on NYS Tuition Assistance
Program (TAP), Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), Scholarship
programs and more.
Rochester Area Community Foundation
This is a local scholarship database site.
You can search by school and course of study.
The Student Guide: Financial Aid
from the U.S. Department of Education
The complete text of the Department of Education’s
“Student Guide.” A good place to start the search for college financing.
Wired
Scholar
Search for scholarships
and apply for financial aid; two added features: Guidance for
minority students and a Spanish version.
ACE
Prep
Free access to changing tests and
tutorials; includes SAT I, SAT II, ACT, AP.
ACT
Divided into five sections, this site
helps with getting ready for college, comparing college costs, preparing for the
ACT, registering online for the ACT, exploring careers, and getting a job.
CollegeBoard
Online
All in one site that covers planning for
college, taking the tests (SAT I & II, PSAT/NMSQT, CLEP, and AP), finding
the right college for you, getting into college (help with applications and
essays), and paying for college; offers online registration for tests with
sample questions for practice.
College
PowerPrep
Help for students to prepare for the SAT and
ACT; many free components to this commercial site.
Kaplan
Test Prep and Admissions
Check out the free services.
Number2.com
Free SAT, ACT prep materials created by University professors.
Princeton
Review
Information and tips on both the SAT and ACT.
The
Test Prep Center
Click on Strategies from
the sidebar on the left for test tips in both verbal and math sections.
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