College and Career Planning
Financial Aid
FAFSA on the web - interactive web version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Scholarship searches
FastWEB - a free, searchable scholarship database that enables you to locate sources of financial aid that are suitable for you.
www.fastweb.comWiredscholar - another great source for planning your college education
http://www.collegeanswer.com/index.jsp
Helping High School Seniors Go To College...
1st Step: Search College Programs
We invite your high school seniors to use our college search directory for colleges and universities, community colleges, online colleges, career schools, and other educational institutions -- all neatly indexed without advertising clutter and user registrations. They simply link and select the kind of institution they would like to attend by location and/or by type.Try our college search directory: http://www.OfftoCollege.com/college-search.html
2nd Step: Use these FREE College Planning Tools
View these four nifty tools that students can use to plan, search, track, and finance their post high school college and career plans. These tools are available FREE for students and high school administrators without user registration:
see tool: Going to College Checklist
Let's start with our summary guide that displays in calendar chronology the tasks student must follow to prepare, search, and complete college admission requirements. The checklist is net-connected to our college center with five important guides:i: College Prep: help in analyzing job trends and career futures
ii: College Search: use our comprehensive search directory for colleges and universities, career schools, online schools, etc.
iii: College Admission: guide for application submission, essays, letters of recommendations, etc.
iv: College Financing: review the financial aid process to pay for college
v: College Start: find what you need to move and start collegeSchool counselors and administrative personnel can use this checklist as an interactive guide to council students on college plans and search.
View checklist at: http://www.OfftoCollege.com/tools/
see tool: Tracking Wizard
Students can expect a lot of research to complete a thorough college evaluation. Use this tool to track the information that include:i: career interest goals;
ii: college name and address information;
iii: college comparison sheet;
iv: college entrance requirements;
v: scholarship search requirements; and more.The tool can be downloaded to the student's desktop. They can use the desktop wizard for collecting information or print out tracking sheets to record by hand.
View tracking tool at: http://www.OfftoCollege.com/tools/
see tool: College Financing Spreadsheet
Finding ways to pay for college can be a daunting task for both student and parent. The goal is having a spreadsheet that lists options and links for scholarships, grants, work-study programs, government student loans, parent PLUS loans, private student loans, and other financing options. The spreadsheet tracks and calculates financing options for all academic levels.View spreadsheet at: http://www.OfftoCollege.com/tools/
see tool: Achieving Success in College and Beyond
Success in life begins with 3 ingredients: planning, discipline and action. Planning is the ingredient for designing the goal plan. Discipline is strengthening the character that motivates the person to act. And action is the execution of the goal plan using time and task management.These three ingredients are summarized in a book that students can download and use. Use our summary guide to review the three ingredients.
View book and guide at: http://www.OfftoCollege.com/tools/
All of these tools and search directories are available FREE without student registration of any kind. You simply click, open, and download any of the tools that you find helpful. And best of all, none of these tools or search directories have advertisements. They are completely clutter free of target ads.