Presents the 2006 College Cost and Financial Aid handbook featuring over three thousand four-year and two-year colleges, descriptions of their financial aid packages, tuition costs, and scholarship programs.
Explains where to find scholarships; provides guidance and tools, including sample essays, for applying for scholarships; and contains information on service scholarships, education tax breaks, and college savings funds.
Offers advice on how to get financial aid to attend college, looks at the financial aid situation at more than three thousand colleges, universities, and technical schools, and includes application deadlines, tips on filling out forms, and definitions of key financial aid terms.
Offers advice on how to pay for college, and features a listing of over 2,100 sources of scholarships, internships, and loans available from private, federal, and state sources. Includes an eligibility index.
Provides descriptions of hundreds of scholarships, internships, and loan programs from federal, state, and private sources, and includes tips on avoiding scholarship scams, links to college and scholarship searches, and eligibility indexes.
Provides descriptions of over four thousand sources of private scholarships, grants, and prizes for undergraduates in the 2010-2011 academic year, each with information on eligibility and application requirements; organized alphabetically by academic fields and career goals.
Profiles over two thousand four-year colleges and universities in terms of costs and financial aid, gift aid, loans, and other awards available to meet expenses, each with contact information, and includes comparison cost charts of schools in each state.
a guide for everyone looking for the right school at the right price
O'Shaughnessy, Lynn
2008
Offers advice to prospective college students and their parents on how to find the right program at an affordable price, looking at the factors affecting college costs and financial aid, and discussing strategies for avoiding or solving the cost crisis.
A guide to financing college that covers direct and indirect costs, student loans, aid eligibility, scholarships, tuition reward programs, and other related topics.
Contains profiles of 284 colleges recognized for their outreach efforts, scholarship and financial aid opportunities, and support and retention services, offers advice to students on how to prepare for college, and includes insider advice for college students and other experts.
