As of October 2008, the following programs, products and services have received the NACAC Seal of Approval:
AXA Achievement sm
The Center for College Planning
College Answer.com
College Conference Manual
COLLEGEdata
College Planning Center of Rhode Island
eCampusTours.com
eSurveys
My College Options
Paying for College Guide
Post-Secondary Planning Survey
The Princeton Review’s Web Site
Scholarships.com
Student Edge
Student Success Guides
WorkspaceK12
AXA Achievementsm is funded by the AXA Foundation - the philanthropic arm of AXA Equitable. AXA Achievementsm, the Foundation's signature program, provides resources that help make college possible: access and advice. Through AXA Achievementsm, AXA Equitable is one of the nation’s largest corporate providers of scholarships and a comprehensive resource for information to help students and parents plan for college. For more information, click here.
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The Center for College Planning (CCP) at the NHHEAF Network Organizations is dedicated to providing students and families with valuable information about the college planning process. CCP is the philanthropic arm of the Organizations. College Outreach Specialists travel statewide making hundreds of presentations to over 30,000 individuals each year. CCP provides individualized counseling and an array of early awareness, college/career planning and financial aid programs for K-12 students and parents. Please visit http://www.nhheaf.org/about_ccp.asp and http://NHcollegeclub.org for more information.
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CollegeAnswer.com
Sallie Mae's CollegeAnswer.com provides content, functionality, and a wide array of solutions for planning and paying for college. The site guides visitors through the entire process -- from early planning and estimating, to applying for federal and private loans online. Reflecting Sallie Mae's unique position as a trusted institution in the student loan industry, College Answer is designed to be the reliable, objective resource for anyone interested in a higher education.
College Answer offers the free tools necessary for students and parents to plan for all aspects of higher education, and is committed to being the most comprehensive paying for college site on the Internet, including one of the largest scholarship databases. Our unique scholarship database comes with questions translated into Spanish and the peace of mind that all data submitted is safe with us. We never sell our users' information to third parties.
College Answer has been named Forbes.com's Best of the Web multiple times in the college-planning category and is honored with the NACAC Seal of Approval.
For more information, please visit CollegeAnswer.com
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College Conference Manual
College Conference Manual (CCM), published by School Guide Publications, is a recruitment tool for colleges and schools looking to reach students before they attend a College Fair. CCM is distributed to high school juniors and seniors three weeks prior to the fair in their area. Included in each issue is a list of participating schools, information about federal and state financial aid, helpful tips and other editorial from local educators. Counselors use CCM in individual and group counseling sessions; sufficient copies are provided so that students may take home a copy to review with their parents. Colleges are invited to advertise and submit editorial copy about their own programs.
For more information, contact School Guide Publications, www.schoolguides.com/ccm, email: info@schoolguides.com,
ph: 800-433-7771
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COLLEGEdata
COLLEGEdata, a free college planning web site, provides resources to assist students, parents, counselors, and others who advise students about higher education opportunities. Tools available include a college search engine, scholarship search engine, and EFC calculator, plus three unique tools: an admissions chances estimator, a college net cost calculator, and our newest tool, the College Admissions Tracker, which features profiles from thousands of real college-bound students describing their qualifications and admissions outcomes. COLLEGEdata has the most complete school profiles available, combining the best data from multiple sources on 1,700+ U.S. colleges and universities. In addition, the site features true stories of students on the road to college and more than 100 in-depth articles about admission and financial aid, with a focus on how to choose colleges, prepare for admission, apply for admission, and finance a college education. The COLLEGEdata Data Locker enables users to bookmark articles and save and make notes about their favorite colleges and scholarships. COLLEGEdata is a free service of 1st Financial Bank USA. For more information visit COLLEGEdata at www.collegedata.com.
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College Planning Center of Rhode Island
The College Planning Center of Rhode Island (CPCRI) is a division of the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority, a non-profit state agency. The CPCRI offers FREE higher education counseling to students and parents throughout the state. Services include: helping students with college searches, review of admission essays, help with the completion of all financial aid applications, review of award letters, information on financing options to students and parents. The CPCRI provides free college planning publications to Rhode Island high schools and provides free workshops on all of the areas mentioned above to high schools and organizations throughout the state. For more information visit CPCRI at www.cpcri.org.
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eCampusTours.com
eCampusTours.com, a college planning website that allows prospective college students to "virtually" view thousands of campuses through 360-degree images, has been awarded the Seal of Approval from the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC). The Seal identifies eCampusTours.com as a quality resource for students, parents and counselors.
eCampusTours.com, produced by Edsouth, allows online viewers to view dorm rooms, classrooms, libraries and other key spots on campus selected by the college and displayed on the official school map. Students can save a list of favorite tours, link to websites of participating schools and register online for campus visits. The service is free to colleges and students. The site also features online college planning and research information, a free scholarship search, scholarship giveaways and online assistance from live representatives. Currently, over 1200 colleges throughout the country are listed on the site.
For more information, click here.
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eSurveys
Experienced in the field of research services for more than 20 years, Royall and Company offers a line of eSurveys designed to provide essential information to assist college admission professionals nationwide.
eSurveys examine student opinions and behaviors related to transition points in the admissions process, as well as a variety of issues potentially affecting recruitment and enrollment trends. The resulting survey information is helpful to college admission professionals in better understanding the factors students considered when making choices at each transition point, and trends as they might relate to their specific institution of higher learning.
eSurveys is a valuable tool in the college admissions process because it acts as an indicator to college admissions professionals about what students and parents most need as they embark on their important journey to college. They can also learn how their school is perceived relative to other schools under the student’s consideration, and about communication method preferences.
For more information, click here.
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My College Options
My College Options is a free college and career planning program designed to assist high school students, their parents and guidance counselors with the college and career planning process.
This program provides feedback directly to students, parents and counselors, both through personalized reports and through personal secure accounts on www.mycollegeoptions.org website.
Students can create their planning account online at www.mycollegeoptions.org, or through completing an offline registration form provided through their counselor or teacher.
The program provides tools such as a sophisticated college match report that shows them the 15 schools that best match their profile out of over 5,000 accredited colleges, a favorites manager to help them organize their choices, FREE ACT/SAT test prep games, as well as access to communicate with college admissions officers and our own team of experts. For more information, click here.
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Paying for College Guide
Paying for College: A Guide to Financial Aid from U.S. Bank is designed to educate high school juniors and seniors on the steps necessary to obtain financial aid and make them aware of their options. High school counselors can also use the publication as a resource when advising their students. It is available in English and Spanish.
Paying for College is distributed at financial aid nights held by high schools, colleges or lending institutions. A sample is mailed to every high school and college admission office in U.S. Bank's 24-state footprint, offering a free supply. To request or download this guide, click here.
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Post Secondary Planning Survey®
The National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA) has administered the Post-Secondary Planning Survey® among college bound high school students throughout its 35 history. This program plays a key role in linking students to colleges, universities and other educational programs matching each student's individual goals, interests and preferences. Conducted in 19,000 high schools each year, this important program is provided free of charge to both high schools and students. Nearly 6 million students each year benefit directly from this opportunity.
In addition, individual counselors and teachers receive access to a customized report containing their high school's survey participation figures, along with breakdowns and percentages within various academic, college and career preferences. This indicative resource, currently used by more than 45,000 teachers and counselors, provides an invaluable tool for comparing the college and career plans of their students vs. national figures and averages in each of more than 100 distinct areas.
Over 1,900 colleges, universities and educational organizations rely on data from the Post-Secondary Planning Survey® through access to the NRCCUA Talent Identification Program® to link them with the college bound high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors who most closely match the individual offerings of the college. Through the NRCCUA Talent Identification Program® , each college works directly with professional NRCCUA Enrollment Consultants whose combined experience in higher education recruitment spans some 125 years.
For more information on the Post Secondary Planning Survey® or NRCCUA please visit www.nrccua.org.
The Princeton Review’s Web Site
The Princeton Review (Nasdaq: REVU) offers private tutoring and classroom and online test preparation to help students improve their scores in college and graduate school admissions tests. The Company's free website, www.PrincetonReview.com, helps over half of university-bound student’s research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for their higher education. The Company also authors more than 200 print and software titles on test preparation, college and graduate school selection and admissions, and related topics. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.
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Scholarships.com
Since 1998, Scholarships.com has provided one of the largest and most trusted free college scholarship search and financial aid information resources on the Internet. Students create a personal profile, and receive complete information on the most relevant and attainable college scholarships. Scholarships.com also provides users with information on other financial aid opportunities, including federal and private student loans.
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Student Edge
StudentEdge helps students and their families find the optimal college on all levels—academic, social and financial, maximize college affordability with a scholarship search and financial aid tools, prepare for the SAT, ACT and PSAT with award-winning online courses, and explore the right career path based on their interests and talents. There is no charge to high schools or students for StudentEdge. Colleges fund this service.
For more information, please visit www.petersons.com/studentedge.
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Student Success Guides
Student Success Guides are a series of lighthearted guides developed by Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation (Great Lakes).
These printed guides help secondary and postsecondary students make the decision of whether to attend college, understand the financial aid process and make wise money management decisions while in college.
The guides are distributed to students and their parents by high school counselors, college access counselors and other organizations working to foster financial literacy and boost student persistence and performance. To view Great Lakes’ Student Success Guides, click here.
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WorkspaceK12
WorkspaceK12® is the premier Web-based planning and advising system for schools — with resources for counselors, teachers, administrators, and technology professionals, as well as students and parents. With it you can manage the course, college, and career advising process; communicate with parents, students, and colleagues; and analyze data about student achievement and outcomes. WorkspaceK12® services are designed to work together, saving you time by eliminating repetitive data entry and simplifying training with a consistent, easy-to-use interface. For more information, click here.
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