Your college may require you to fill out both the FAFSA and the CSS/PROFILE in order to consider you for financial aid. Make sure that you ask your college's financial aid office about what you need to do to be considered for financial aid!! Follow this link to find out about filing the CSS/PROFILE online.

Although you have to watch out for ads, this is a good site for searching for scholarships. After registering with the site (this COULD take awhile…), scholarships that fit your profile will be put in your "My Results" folder.

Have questions on government financial aid? This is a great site to use as a resource in your quest to help pay for college. You'll find info. on how you can get help from the government and other sources, by filling out the FAFSA and doing your research on outside scholarships. Click on "Reducing College Costs" for great tips on how to save money!

This award-winning site has grown into the most comprehensive commented on collection of information about student financial aid on the web. FinAid has a great reputation in the educational community as the best Web site of its kind. It's complete, it's informative, it's objective--and it's the first stop on the Web for students looking for ways to finance their education. Every major newspaper and personal finance magazine in the country has reviewed the site.

This is a good resource if you need to file the FAFSA for financial aid. Find out what materials you'll need to fill out the form, and check out deadlines for filing. You can fill out the FAFSA online, or request a paper copy.

This site has info. on college loans, AND a free scholarship search. Go to the Wired Scholar portion of the site to look at info. for student aid. Just answer the questions and you'll get a list of scholarships that you are eligible to apply for. A great resource to use if you want to avoid scholarship scams and ads!

If you are interested in serving in the military, there are various programs which exchange time served for help in paying for school. This site will explain more about those programs. Some offers are very generous (provided that you have discussed the decision to join the military with your parents and guidance counselor, and have thought the decision over). If you join the ROTC, for example, the US military might pay your full tuition, plus award you with a book allowance and a monthly stipend.