Links & Resources

Scholarship/Financial Aid Pathfinder

Financial Aid/Forms
FAFSA
US Department of Education
FinAid.com — This site enables you to figure out the loan process and work with complex forms.
General Websites
Absolutely Scholarships — This site allows students to search the most comprehensive educational databases available for college scholarships.
College Answer — This site helps you understand how to prepare for continuing education and the financial aid application process.
College Board — Use their online tool to help you locate scholarships, internships, grants, and loans that match your education level, talents, and background.
CollegeNet
College Plan
Department of Veterans Affairs — Contains information about benefits for veterans including support for education.
Digipen — The Digipen Institute of Technology offers various scholarships ranging from women only to need-based.
EStudentLoan.com — This site compares various loans and lets you apply online with lenders.
Fast Aid — This site offers a database that features: Scholarships, Graduate Scholarships, Worldwide Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants and Free Undergraduate College Scholarship
FastWeb.com — This site helps in locating scholarship and loan money. Fill out a detailed questionnaire and the site finds scholarships that match your profile. Note: It contains many ads and special offers so be careful when checking boxes!
The Foundation Center — This site provides information for the non-traditional or returning student.
Scholarships.com — A free college scholarship search, this site helps you create a personal education profile that will be matched to a database of over 600,000 college scholarship awards.
Schools in the USA — Provides a database of state-administered financial aid.
The Seattle Foundation — Our Mission: The Seattle Foundation's mission is to create a healthy community through engaged philanthropy, community knowledge and leadership
SimpleTuition — This is a free site with information about student loans, financial aid, loan consolidation, as well as a loan comparison tool.
Supercollege — Search our free scholarship database to uncover awards for high school, college, grad and adult students. Start your scholarship search!
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) e-Scholar web site provides information on different educational opportunities, scholarships, fellowships and grants. This site also offers details on internships for minority students.
Upromise.com — When you or designated family members make purchases at participating companies, 1% to 10% goes into a tax-free college fund.
Wal-Mart Foundation Scholarship Programs — The application period for this year's scholarship program has ended. Please revisit this site after October 31st, 2009 to fill out your application for the 2010 fall semester.
African American Scholarships
The Black Collegian Online — Offers a listing of information on fellowships, grants, and scholarships of interest to people of color.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund (not restricted to African Americans) — Every winter, Mount Baker neighbors come together to raise money and award college scholarships to area students. The Scholarship Committee strives to select students who are NOT the highest achievers, are not likely to be eligible for other scholarships, and who without this scholarship might never go to college. To be eligible for the scholarships, applicants must be residents of the greater Mount Baker area (or residents of the 98118 or 98122 zip codes) and members of racial or ethnic minority groups that are educationally disadvantaged.
Resources for Students
Compass Placement Test Sample Questions
College Financial Aid
Local Colleges & Universities
Antioch University
Cornish College of the Arts
Evergreen State College
Green River Community College
North Seattle Community College
Seattle Central Community College
Seattle University
Seattle Vocational Institute
Shoreline Community College
South Seattle Community College
University of Washington
Other Resources for Students
45th Street Clinic: evening drop-in clinic.
Rising Out Of The Shadows (ROOTS): shelter, 7 nights a week.
Sanctuary Art Center: art studio.
Seattle Youth Garden Works: garden based education & employment.
Street Youth Ministries: drop in center.
University District Service Providers Alliance: Interagency homelessness service alliance.
University District Youth Center: drop-in center.
University Family YMCA: drop-in center (Sat & Sun).
University Street Ministries: case management and teen feed.
Information about homelessness
Seattle Youth Services
Ending Youth Homelessness
Committee to End Homelessness in King County
Seattle/King County Coalition to End Homelessness

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