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Advantage Education - Advantage Education is a company that specializes in individualized tutoring for SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, and LSAT. Advantage Education also offers SAT/ACT College Prep Camps and Pre-Law Boot Camps. You can find out about seminars in your area, or sign up for an Online Tutoring session. If you aren't interested in tutoring or seminars, there are also helpful resources recommended for preparing for taking your test.
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.
College Planning Web Site - This College Planning Web site provides students, families and education professionals with information on college selection, admission, financial aid and scholarships.
College Savings Plans Network - Many state governments have created innovative college savings programs designed to meet the savings needs of their citizens. These programs seek to make the savings option easier for the average family. Find out what programs are available to you.
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.
DigitalHigh.com - Everything from college information to sports online. This site is done by teens!
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.
Investing and College Planning - SmartMoney Interactive College Planning section includes information on financial aid, college investing and saving for college. Also includes a Java worksheet, How Much Can You Save.
Kiplinger.com: Calculators - Use this worksheet to show you how much you'll need to save each month to meet your college savings goals.
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?
Petersons.com: Financing Education - Information and planning aids for financing education. Learn about financial aid, scholarships, and tips for planning for college expenses. Search Peterson's database of more than 850,000 college scholarships, awards, grants and prizes.
ThinkQuest - Would you like to win thousands of dollars in scholarship money? Do you have a great idea for a new Web resource? You might be a fabulous C++ programmer, but you can't write interesting English prose very well. Or maybe you're terrific at graphics but can't code. Maybe you're not a computer nut at all, but you really know how to research a topic. There is a place for all of you at ThinkQuest. First, you have to create a team to work on your project. Advertise your skills and your ideas at the Team Maker part of the site. Typically, teams are formed with two or three kids from all over the world; they have usually never met, and they usually come from schools or homeschools with widely varying levels of technology. You also need a coach or three, usually teachers or parents, but it could be someone else. You decide how to tackle the project, and then spend many months building your Web resource on the server space provided by ThinkQuest. You and your team members use chat rooms to discuss the project as well as e-mail and other forms of communication. Eventually the contest deadline rolls around, and your project is frozen in time so that the judges can take a look. If your site is chosen as a finalist, you and your team (and your coaches) are flown (all expenses paid) to the site of the finals. Your site is inspected by the finals judges. You and your team are interviewed, and at long last, winners are chosen and placements are made. The winning team members each get $25,000 scholarships, and many of the finalist teams who place lower get substantial scholarships as well. ThinkQuest gives away over $1 million in scholarship money EVERY YEAR. There are several contests: one for elementary grades, called ThinkQuest Junior, and the original one for older kids. There's also a new contest for teachers. At this site you can explore past winners' sites and get information about the latest ThinkQuest competition schedule.
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.
Welcome To MyFuture - If you're a high school student who's not sure what your future holds, you're not alone. We don't have all the answers, but we can help with lots of great information on financial aid, scholarships and careers, getting great jobs and managing money.
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