You can find out almost everything you need to know about financing your college education using the links listed below. Here is information about how to fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), how to search for scholarships and grants, and how to figure out how much college will cost.

FinAid

Here is a great site to begin the financial aid process because it provides useful information and links to other sites that help with specific tasks such as scholarship searches, financial aid forms, calculating how much money you will need to attend college, and much more.

http://www.collegeispossible.org

This site describes various financial aid programs including federal grants and loans, gives basic information about how much college costs, and provides information about many myths that keep people from applying for financial aid. This site also provides a link to the Student Aid Alliance, which is an organization advocating for additional federal money to aid students wanting to attend college.

FAFSA

http://www.fafsa.ed.gov

Apply for Federal Financial Aid on the web. Cuts processing time from 4-6 weeks to 1-2 weeks. You still need to print a signature page and send it in, but this is a much faster way to file your FAFSA.

FAFSA School Code

http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/FSLookupServlet

You can find out the school code for any college here in order to complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). This allows you to send your financial information to the schools you are considering attending to see how much financial aid they will offer you.

College Board Scholarship Search

http://apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch_ss/welcome.jsp

College Board sponsors this site which allows you to search their extensive database of scholarships to find ones that match you. Simply fill out the information about yourself and click the submit button to see the list of scholarships suited for you.

Mach25 Scholarship Search

http://www.collegenet.com/mach25/app

You can search over 600,000 potential scholarships here to find ones that match you. There are several ways to search this database which makes it easy to find the scholarships that interest you.

Peterson's Financial Aid

http://iiswinprd03.petersons.com/finaid/file.asp?id=780&path=ug.pfs.financial

Peterson's site requires you to register for CollegeQuest which is a large database of scholarships that are compared with your personal profile to find matches for you. This site also has great information about choosing a college and a career.

College Answer

http://www.collegeanswer.com/index.jsp

College Answer allows you to create a personal profile that is compared to a database of scholarships and it provides information to you through e-mail about scholarships for which you may qualify.