CollegeView
CollegeView is a CD-ROM and Web-based college search and application service from Hobsons.
CollegeView contains a database of over 3,800 two- and four-year accredited colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and provides information ranging from key facts about all schools to enhanced virtual tours and online applications for several hundred colleges and universities.
Designed to help students organize and communicate the attributes they seek in a college or university, the program also offers students access to student services, financial aid and career information.
Free Paying for College Seminar
College-bound students and their families often need help making sensible decisions about financing college. The Sallie Mae Fund has developed a free interactive seminar that is offered around the country. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please RSVP to The Sallie Mae Fund at their toll-free number, 1-877-840-8224.
FutureConnect
FutureConnect is an on-site, K-12 school-to-career program that facilitates communication among students, e-mentors, parents, high school personnel and workforce, trade school and college recruiters.
FutureConnect helps junior and senior high school students research careers, relate career goals to school courses and find opportunities based on career and personal interests, academic and extracurricular abilities and financial needs.
Students use the FutureConnect Web site to build a personal portfolio (including digital media like sound, video, etc.) that can be emailed to admission personnel and recruiters at student-selected higher education institutions, trade schools that are identified using the site’s college/trade school search engine.
Registered recruiters may search the student database for students with unique skill sets and contact students directly via email. The service is supported with up to four in-school visits per year, a school-to-career curriculum integration framework and tracking of all high school graduates for six-years post-graduation.
My College Options
My College Options is a free service from NRCCUA designed to match college-bound students with the colleges and universities aligned with their personal and educational goals.
This postsecondary planning service provides feedback directly to students, parents and counselors, both through personalized written reports and via a secure Web site. To search for schools that complement their personal goals and interests, students can log onto wiredscholar.com, Sallie Mae’s planning-for-college Web site, or create a profile by completing a 15–20 minute survey administered under teacher/staff supervision at schools that have received the form.
The system delivers to students personalized reports with up to 15 colleges from the more than 3,500 accredited two and four-year, public and private postsecondary institutions nationwide that best match their profile.
Think Ahead: College Aid Calculator (CAC), Early College-Cost Estimator (EccE) and College Cost Forecaster (CCF)
Think Ahead’s software estimates both Expected Family Contribution (EFC)—what a parent and student may be expected to pay toward college costs—and helps all families (whether they qualify for financial aid or not) to set college saving and borrowing goals.
CAC is directed to those planning to attend college soon. EccE is primarily for families planning to attend college years in the future. CCF concentrates on creating a meaningful college-funding plan for all families. The objective: End up with a plan with a workable cash flow. All three products are available in CD, download and Web formats.