Useful Websites

Our Nation's Tragedy and Its Place in Our Schools
A community resource from HCPSS

Howard County Library

Financial Aid

• Americorps

• CSS/Financial Aid Profile

• College Net

• FAFSA

• Fast Web

• Finaid 

• NASFAA

• Pell Grants

• Project Scholarship Scam

• Resources by State

• Sallie Mae

• Scholarships

• Student Guide to Federal Aid

Testing Sites

• AP/College Board (PSAT, SAT, AP, CLEP)
  Exam Schedules for AP Tests
  AP Credit Policy

• ACT

• Free Test Prep/College Search

• Princeton Review Online Test Prep

College Information

• Advanced College Search (Yahoo!)

• AnyCollege.net
  A free user-friendly, non-biased college search engine for prospective students.
• Black Excel

• Common Application

• Campus Tours

• College Express
• CollegeNet
  Large search databases of four-year colleges and universities, and community and technical colleges by name location, tuition, enrollment, major subjects and intercollegiate athletics
• CollegeView
  Detailed search engines with wide-ranging criteria that include diversity, field of study, religious affiliation, athletics, special programs, and services for disabled students
• College Board Online and College Board’s ExPAN
• EMBARK
  Search for colleges that match your goals and interests.  Find useful advice and information on researching, applying and going to college

• EssayEdge
  Help with writing admissions application essay

• FastWeb

• GoCollege
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Kaplan
• Knowledge for College
  A ”dot-com” newsletter for high school guidance counselors, students and parents  
• Maryland Wired Scholar
• My College Guide

• National Association for College Admission Counseling

• NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
  To register on-line: www.ncaaclearinghouse.net

• Online College Fair
  Free live interactive online college fair held second Tuesday of each month 12-3PM & 7-11PM. Chat live with admission officers, students and faculty.

• Peterson Education Center
• Princeton Review

• Space Availibility Survey

• US News & World Report College Ranking
• Wired Scholar
  The premier online resource for "going to college" information.

Popular College Home Sites for Centennial Students

• University of Maryland
• UMBC
• University of Delaware
• Penn State
• Frostburg University
• James Madison University
• St. Mary’s College
• Towson University
• Virginia Tech
• Howard Community College
• University of Virginia

Career Information

• America's Career InfoNet

• e-Scholar
  US Office of Personnel Management allows individuals age 16 and over to obtain information on more than 400 federally-funded opportunities

• Job Corps

• Maryland Health Careers, information on nursing careers.

• Maryland Wired Scholar

• Monster.com

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

Parenting Sites

External Counseling Services

• HCDrugFree

Search Engines

• Altavista

• Yahoo

• HotBot

• LookSmart

• Google

Maryland Department of Education Websites

• MSDE Web Site
  Offers information such as news releases, educational activities, legislation, programs, scholarships, and statistics, MSDE publications, Board of Education agendas and member biographies, MSDE organizational chart and employee directly, links to other State resources, mailing labels for all Maryland schools.
• School Improvement in Maryland web site
  Designed to help school improvement teams examine assessment data and identify the best instructional practices to improve student performance. 
• Maryland School Performance Report web site  
  Offers detailed information on student performance including:  state, system and school level MSPAP data, disaggregated MSPAP data, frequently requested MSPAP trend data, sate system and school level Maryland Functional Test data, statistics such as attendance and dropout rates, data files you can download, future site of High School Assessment data.

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