SCHOLARSHIPS
Mission
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Location: Temporary Office Building TO
Telephone: 301-322-0822
Check with the Financial Aid Office for available scholarships. A booklet listing these scholarships can be obtained in February or March. These scholarships are competitive, and recipients are awarded funds for the fall and spring semesters.
The following is a list of
several on-line services, both commercial and federally operated, that can
assist any student in locating funding and resources to pay for the cost of
higher education. The services listed here are to aid in your search and
are not guarantees of future funding.
(1)
FAFSA ON THE WEB:
www.fafsa.ed.gov
Government
Organization
This page offers
links to the Department of Education and to federally recommended
student financial aid programs. The FAFSA Form basically determines each
student’s financial aid eligibility for federal funding grants,
scholarships, and subsidized and unsubsidized loans.
(2) SCHOLARSHIP
SEARCH (College Board):
www.collegeboard.com
Government Organization
This page includes a scholarship search engine for graduate awards and
information on CSS Profile, FAFSA, National College Budgeting, SAT
questions, and national college recruitment options.
(3) COLLEGENET:
www.collegenet.com
Commercial Organization
This scholarship search engine encourages a user to input his or her current
academic and financial situations, and a quick search of over 250,000
different resources provides all the funds for which a student can qualify.
An interesting feature of Collegenet is a discount on-line bookstore for
college textbooks.
(4) THE FINANCIAL AID
INFORMATION PAGE:
www.finaid.com
Commercial Organization
This page is
a comprehensive, free, independent guide to student financial aid
information. It also offers references to helpful videos, books, software,
and private services for finding scholarships and loan information.
(5) FASTWEB:
www.fastweb.com
Commercial Organization
Fastweb allows
the user to personalize a search file for undergraduate and graduate
scholarships and financial aid. The Fastweb database searches
over 400,000
different awards. It also offers free e-mail accounts for students
and links to other
financial aid pages.
(6)
CASHE: COLLEGE AID SOURCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION:
www.salliemae.com
Commercial Organization
A student can fill out a profile form on this page, and the CASHE database
searches funding resources such as fellowships, scholarships, grants, work
study programs, loans, tuition waivers, internships, competitions, and work
cooperatives. The service is free, and the results are e-mailed directly to
the student.
(7)
U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT:
www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
Commercial Organization
This site offers a broad range of college-related material, including a
section on financial aid and scholarships.
(8) *EMBARK SEARCH:
www.embark.com
Commercial Organization
(9)
*FREE SCHOLARSHIPS:
www.freshinfo.com
Commercial Organization
(10)
*GO COLLEGE:
www.gocollege.com
Commercial Organization
*8-10 are free sites that tap into rich databases of college scholarships.