Learn about college financial aid, including financial aid
eligibility, how to apply for financial aid, how to get the
most financial aid, and how to evaluate financial aid awards.
Get Started with Financial Aid
Debunking Myths About Financial Aid
How Grants Help You Pay for College
Scholarships and Merit Aid Offered by Colleges
Stafford Loans: The Largest Student Loan Program
How to Qualify for Financial Aid
How Colleges Calculate Your Financial Aid
Your Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
What You Need to Know About Financial Need
How Student and Parent Assets Affect Your Financial Aid
How Student and Parent Income Affect Your Financial Aid
Financial Aid for Independent Students
How to Get Financial Aid
How to Apply for Financial Aid
Why You Need to File the FAFSA
CSS PROFILE and Other Aid Applications
Tips for Your Financial Aid Forms
Getting the Best Financial Aid Awards
What’s in a Financial Aid Award?
How Colleges Award Financial Aid
Improve Your Financial Aid Eligibility
How Outside Scholarships Affect Financial Aid Awards
How to Compare Your Financial Aid Awards
Scholarship, Grants, and Award Sites
FastWeb is without argument one of the leading free scholarship services.
It’s not a search engine, and it’s much more than a database, it’s more
akin to basic project management tool.
ScholarshipExperts.com is a free subscriber scholarship search service
that entered development in 2000. Users complete the online profile,
so that scholarships can be “matched” to the appropriate personal data.
Scholarships.com was launched in 1998 and competes with FastWeb
for top placement in search engine results. Again, users must enter a
personal profile to login and begin using the search service, but the
interface is up front and simple.