http://brentwood.temacsolutions.com/collegescholarshipsandgrants.aspxhttp://brentwood.temacsolutions.com/page12101442.aspx<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>The Internet:</strong> Many websites have large scholarship databases that will do the grunt work for you. Enter your criteria and they return a list of scholarships that match. Most sites are free and only require you to register to use their services. There are also many organizations that provide scholarships and/or links to scholarship resources.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <h4 align="justify"><a href="http://www.thesalliemaefund.org/smfnew/scholarship_directory/index.html">Black College Dollars</a></h4> <div align="justify">This free scholarship search, geared for African-American students, contains more than 300 scholarships searchable by GPA requirement, academic and career interest, and application deadline. </div> <div align="justify"><br /> <em>Produced by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in collaboration with Black Entertainment Television (BET)</em></div> <h4 align="justify"><a href="http://www.latinocollegedollars.org/" target="_blank">Latino College Dollars</a></h4> <div align="justify">This free scholarship search, geared for Hispanic students, contains clear information on more than 300 scholarships targeting Latino high school, undergraduate, and graduate students across the United States. This online resource is searchable by key categories such as grade level, GPA and citizenship. Download the <a href="http://www.thesalliemaefund.org/smfnew/pdf/Scholarship_Directory.pdf">2007–2008 Latino College Dollars Directory</a> (PDF, 1 MB). </div> <div align="justify"><br /> <em>Produced by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute and funded by The Sallie Mae Fund, the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, and the Walt Disney Company</em></div></span> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</span></div> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some other website to check out are:</span></div> <ul class="ulleft"> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.collegeanswer.com/paying/scholarship_search/pay_scholarship_search.jsp" href="http://www.collegeanswer.com/paying/scholarship_search/pay_scholarship_search.jsp" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.collegeanswer.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.collegefund.org/" href="http://www.collegefund.org/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.collegefund.org</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Native American) </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.college-scholarships.com/" href="http://www.college-scholarships.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.college-scholarships.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.fastaid.com/" href="http://www.fastaid.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.fastaid.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.fastweb.com/" href="http://www.fastweb.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.fastweb.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.finaid.org/" href="http://www.finaid.org/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.finaid.org</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.gmsp.org/" href="http://www.gmsp.org/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.gmsp.org</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Gates Millennium Scholars) </span></div></li> </ul> <ul class="ulright"> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.hsf.net/" href="http://www.hsf.net/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.hsf.net</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Hispanic) </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.uncf.org/" href="http://www.uncf.org/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.uncf.org</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(African American) </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a title="www.salliemaefund.org " href="http://www.salliemaefund.org/"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.salliemaefund.org </span></a></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.studentaid.ed.gov/" href="http://www.studentaid.ed.gov/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.studentaid.ed.gov </span></a></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.srnexpress.com/" href="http://www.srnexpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.srnexpress.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.scholarships.com/" href="http://www.scholarships.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.scholarships.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.review.com/" href="http://www.review.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.review.com</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.apiasf.org/" href="http://www.apiasf.org/" target="_blank" rel="external"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">www.apiasf.org</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Asian American) </span></div></li> </ul> <p align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Scholarship Guides:</strong> Your local library or your high school guidance counselor should have a number of these books. Again, scholarships are listed by criteria. While most guides will share some scholarships in common, there will be many that are unique to each guide, so be sure to look through more than one. You can find these guides in bookstores and libraries:</span></p> <ul class="guides"> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.woodburnpress.com/" href="http://www.woodburnpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="external"><em><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">How to Get Money for College</span></em></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, by Woodburn Press </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.nasfaa.org/" href="http://www.nasfaa.org/" target="_blank" rel="external"><em><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cash for College</span></em></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, by NASFAA </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><a class="external" title="Load in new window: http://www.amazon.com/Sallie-Mae-How-Pay-College/dp/1932662049/sr=1-4/qid=1162487219/ref=sr_1_4/002-0205258-0437672?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sallie-Mae-How-Pay-College/dp/1932662049/sr=1-4/qid=1162487219/ref=sr_1_4/002-0205258-0437672?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books" target="_blank" rel="external"><em><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">How to Pay for College: A Practical Guide for Families</span></em></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, by Gen and Kelly Tanabe </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>The A's and B's of Academic Scholarships</em>, by Anna Leider and Anna Schimke </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>The Black Student's Guide to Scholarships</em> </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>The Scholarship Book</em>, by National Scholarship Research Service </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>The Scholarship Advisor</em>, by Christopher Vuturo </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>Winning Scholarships for College: An Insider's Guide</em> </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>Peterson's College Money Handbook</em> </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>Paying for College without Going for Broke</em>, by Kalman Chany and Geoff Martz </span></div></li> <li> <div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><em>Peterson's Winning Money for College</em> </span></div></li> </ul>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT