Where Are Scholarships And College Grants Available From?

Are you interested in scholarships and college grants but not sure where they're available? You are not alone, but there a number of resources at your disposal to help you in your search for scholarship monies. If you are a high school student, you are really lucky, because although tracking down scholarships and college grants is a big and important responsibility, you have someone who works in your school who might just provide the answer to all of your scholarship questions -- your guidance counselor.

Make an appointment as early as you can get in to see your guidance counselor -- ideally, during your junior year -- and sit down and ask him or her to go over what scholarships and college grants are available to you. What follows is a list of ideas for you to ask your guidance counselor about. And even if you're no longer in high school, these are all good avenues to pursue in terms of hunting down dollars for college.

What About The College Or Program You're Applying To?
The very school you're interested in might be so interested in you as well that it is willing to extend an offer of financial aid or assistance in order to get you to attend school there. You can contact the financial aid office of the college to which you're applying or to which you've been accepted and ask about available scholarships. In addition, you can contact the department with whom you'll be pursuing your major course of study to see if it has any scholarships or college grants available. What you might find is that some schools might offer work in addition to or instead of plain scholarship money.

Help Out The Country and The Country Will Help You
There is a tremendous need for people to enlist in the armed forces right now. And, as always, the armed forces offer recruits a chance to pursue their education either before or after they serve. You can go to the military section of www.student.gov or you can also visit the website for the specific branch of the armed services in which you'd be interested in serving for further information about how the military can help pay for college. Federal Aid The federal government also offers a wide array of aid packages to college bound students, including Pell Grants, Federal Work Study, Stafford Loans, and Perkins Loans.

Go to the Federal aid website, www.fafsa.ed.gov for information about the kinds of aid available. What's great about this website in addition to all of the information it provides is that you can also fill out all of the necessary forms online.

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