College Searches and Financial Aid

Websites

  • Texas Common Application: Fill this out only one time to submit to all Texas Colleges!
  • College for Texans: Free SAT and ACT Test Preparation.
  • Peterson’s Planner: Finding the right college; studying for the SAT or ACT; exploring financial aid; and advance your career through this location.
  • Federal Student Aid: This site is to ensure that all eligible Americans benefit from federal financial assistance (grants, loans, and work-study programs) for education beyond high school.
  • College Net: This site has college search; applications; scholarships; and information for soon to be college students and current college students.
  • American Universities: As home pages are found for American Universities granting bachelor or advanced degrees, they are added here, one page per university. Some universities do not yet have home pages.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education: Provides higher-education news from around the Web.
  • RWM Vocational School Database: RWM provides a database of Private Post-secondary Vocational Schools in all 50 states, organized first by state,then by Training Occupation.
  • Educational and Career Opportunities System: ECOS is an online product designed to help guidance counselors guide and monitor their students throughout their educational careers.
  • Kaplan Education Centers: Kaplan is a world leader in test preparation and has helped millions of students prepare to take the tests necessary to achieve their education and career goals.

College Information

  • The Princeton Review: You can explore schools and career; improve your scores and skills; find scholarships and aid.
  • College for Texans: Everything a Texan needs to know about preparing for, applying for and paying for college or technical school.
  • Adventures in Education (AIE): Helps students plan and complete their journey through higher education by providing a Web site and other free resources to students, parents, counselors, educators, and encourages individuals to discover and pursue educational opportunities.
  • College Answer: Using this site can assist with planning for your college destination (preparing, selecting, applying, paying, deciding, and financing college).
  • Campus Tours: From here, you can tour college campuses that you might be interested in for your education.
  • Kuder: This site is a career planning system can help answer the questions throughout your life.

Testing

  •  Texas Higher Education Assessment: Its purpose is to assess the reading, mathematics, and writing skills that entering freshman-level students should have if they are to perform effectively in undergraduate certificate or degree programs in Texas public colleges or universities.

Careers

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook: For hundreds of different types of jobs this site tells you: the training and education needed; earnings; expected job prospects; what workers do on the job; working conditions; job search tips; links to information about the job market in each State, and more.
  • America’s Career InfoNet: This site is a resource for making informed career decisions to support a demand-driven workforce investment system.

Military

Counselors

  • Education World: They recognized the need to make the Internet easier for educators to use. They created a home for educators on the Internet where teachers can gather and share ideas, as well as find lesson plans and research materials they are looking for.

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