Money, Where to Find It?
- Local Scholarships -- Help from your school
counseling office.
- Bottom Line -- Calculate how much you will be
expected to pay ...no matter where you go to college.
Use these on-line Calculators/Estimators to instantly
calculate the Expected Family Contribution to your tuition bill.
- Apply for Government Aid
- FAFSA Online Application --
This is the form that everybody has to fill
out in order to get financial aid from the government: federal or state.
- FAFSA on the Web Pre-Application Worksheet -- This is the form
to use if you want to fill in your answers before submitting the FAFSA online. The questions on this worksheet
appear in the same order as they do on the online application.
- Profile
Online Application -- This additional financial aid application
is required by many private schools and some public schools. Check out
the school's application form or ask!
- FAFSA Questions -- Free, local area assitance.
- Indiana 21st Century Scholars -- Full Tuition
for 4 Years!
- 21st Century
Scholars -- Start in 8th Grade and get the DEAL
of the CENTURY! Full tuition for 4 years. Just for Indiana students!
(If you missed this one, pass the word to someone in middle school -
NOW)
- Applications: How
to Apply
- Office of Student Financial
Assistance at IU-Bloomington -- IU scholarship directory, private scholarship
opportunities, and other information about Financial Aid in Indiana.
- The
Indiana Learn More Resource Center Guide to Financial Aid -- explains
how to apply for federal, state, and institutional aid.
- Student
Guide -- this is a resource guide from the U.S. Department of
Education. It provides information about Pell Grants, Stafford Loans and
PLUS Loans.
- Education
Planning -- from the Office of Postsecondary Education. Includes
"Families' Guide to Tax Cuts for Education" and many other
interesting resources.
- Saving for College
-- The sooner you start the better off you'll be...includes several different
calculation programs.
- Paying for School
-- discover what you need to consider in order to pay for college.
- FinAid -- loads and loads of information
about financial aid, scholarships, and more.
- National Merit Scholarships
-- an independent not-for-profit organization that operates without government
assistance, conducts two privately financed annual competitions; the National
Merit Scholarship Program and the National Achievement Scholarship Program.
- Scholarship Resource Network
-- free scholarship search. Very detailed and no need to make a special
account with this site.
- FreSch! -- The Free Scholarship
Search and Information Service. This search option allows for a quick browse
or power search of the scholarship database.
- Fastweb -- free scholarship search
that continues to update your file.
- Scholarship
Scams -- The Federal Trade Commission gives advice on how to avoid scholarship
scams
