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Blackboard - At Blackboard.com, you can teach online for free, take distance-learning courses, utilize 239 discipline-specific resource centers and customize them to match your own classes, share tips and information with other online teachers and students, and much more. Right here and right now - on Blackboard.com.
College Board Online - The College Board is the organization that prepares the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs) taken by college-bound high school students. At this site you'll discover that the College Board offers a lot more than academic acheivement tests. There is lots of information for frazzled parents seeking financial aid, and worried students seeking admission. If you're only interested in learning about the SATs, there's a calendar of upcoming testing dates and sample questions.
CollegeQuest - Before you register for free membership, be sure to read the privacy policy. If you disagree, you can always register under a false name. But you'll probably want to use the correct name once you discover everything you can do. Search for a college online. When you find one you like, take a virtual tour of campus facts. Some college Web pages are also linked into the mini tours. You can even apply online! There's also information on financial aid, handy calculators, campus news, and lots more to help you organize all your college research in one place.
Graduation... Now What? - High school seniors may have a lot of choices in front of them. This site sorts it all out and puts the steps to selecting a college into a logical order. Plenty of good advice may be found here. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest competition.
Peterson's - Your family may be familiar with this resource. Have your parents and older brothers and sisters been investigating colleges, distance learning, or semester abroad programs? Peterson's is a wonderful site for that, but did you know it can also be used to find a summer job (maybe at a summer camp) and to explore the world of work?
US News Find Your Ideal School. - Access information on over 1,400 four-year colleges and get up-to-date admissions, academic, and financial aid information. Or find schools by location, cost, size, selectivity, major, student/faculty ratio, academic programs, religious affiliation, setting, diversity, and ranking.
USNews.com: Education: College - Prepare yourself for college with a wide selection of tools and articles, including U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges interactive guide, scholarship searches, a course scheduler, college comparison worksheets and personality quizzes.
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