A list of potential scholarships
is available in the Guidance Office. These are only some of the thousands of
scholarships out there, but they are ones that come to us in the mail.
Go to any university website and check out their Financial Aid page. They will have a list of grants and scholarships offered directly from the university.
Deadlines are important in order to be considered.
FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid - http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ U.S. Department of Education - The Department of Education recommends completing the application on-line. They use the information provided on your FAFSA to determine your eligibility for aid from the federal student financial assistance (SFA) programs. Many states and schools also use the FAFSA to award aid from their programs. Some states and schools may require you to fill out additional forms. As its name implies, filing a FAFSA is free. There are no fees to process the FAFSA, whether you file by paper or electronic means. The information you report on your FAFSA is used to calculate an "Expected Family Contribution," or EFC, according to a congressionally determined formula. Your school will use your EFC to determine your need and what federal, state, and institutional aid you are eligible to receive.
**Note: FAFSA forms must be received by March 1. Keep this in mind when filing. Getting your FAFSA in earlier than March 1 increases your chances of receiving aid, as money is awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.
State of Michigan - Paying for College: http://michigan.gov/mistudentaid/
Michigan Promise Scholarship - http://www.michigan.gov/mistudentaid/0,1607,7-128-38193_44522---,00.html
FinAid http://www.finaid.org/ This site was established in the fall of 1994 as a public service. This site has grown into one of the most comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the web. Access to FinAid is free for all users and there is no charge to link to the site.
Fast Web - http://www.fastweb.com/ Comprehensive site contains a database of over 700,000 scholarships and is growing all the time. Complete a questionnaire and Fast Web will give you a list of scholarships for which you are eligible. Some scholarship applications are available on line. Fast Web will also notify you if additional scholarships are added to its data base that are a match for you.
FastAid - http://www.fastaid.com/ Large, free online scholarship data base also financial aid information.
FRESCH - Advice and tips on obtaining scholarships. Free scholarship search. Other scholarship and financial aid information linked to this sites home page.
Hispanic Fund - This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students and universities who participate in the Hispanic Fund scholarship program.
HOBY - The Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) was founded by Hugh O'Brian in 1958. Its' purpose is to seek out, recognize and develop leadership potential commencing with high school sophomores.
Hope Scholarship - U.S. Department of Education - $1,500 HOPE Scholarship to make the first two years of college universally available. For students in the first two years of college (or other eligible post-secondary training), taxpayers will be eligible for a tax credit equal to 100% of the first $1,000 of tuition and fees and 50% of the second $1,000 (the amounts are indexed for inflation after 2001). The credit will be available on a per-student basis for net tuition and fees (less grant aid) paid for college enrollment after December 31, 1997. The credit is phased out for joint filers between $80,000 and $100,000 of income, and for single filers between $40,000 and $50,000 (indexed after 2001). The credit can be claimed in two taxable years (but not beyond the year when the student completes the first two years of college) with respect to any individual enrolled on at least a half-time basis for any portion of the year.
SallieMae Wired Scholar- A lending institution that provides a search for private scholarships and additional sources of financial aid. CASHE (College Aid Sources for Higher Education) is a comprehensive source of financial aid resources for college. It's easy to use and delivers quick results!
Scholar Aid -
Absolutely Scholarships! ScholarAid, Inc. was founded
in January, 1998, by Ali M. Azhar and Robert J.
Herrin. while they attended the
Scholarship Scams - Site run by the Federal Trade Commission that helps students and parents avoid unethical scholarship data base providers.
Student
Financial Assistance - Financial Aid from the U.S.
Department of Education. The Student Financial Assistance Programs are
the largest source of student aid in
Scholarship Resource Network - Daigle and Vierra, Inc., provider of the Scholarship Resource Network (SRN), has developed this site to provide an overview on financial aid resources available to students with a special focus on scholarship information. Includes a free scholarship search. Scholarship Resource Network Express is a search engine and database of private scholarships designed to assist students identify sources for undergraduate through postgraduate study. This database also includes student loan forgiveness programs for those who have graduated from college and need alternatives for repayment. The award listings in the SRN database contain more detailed information than can be found in most scholarship databases and scholarship listing books. SRN contains more than 8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards worth a total of more than $35 million.
United Negro College Fund - Scholarships for African American students organized by location, academic major, and merit & need.