Useful Links

The following links are useful resources in your quest for higher education. They will provide you with information about college admission, financial aid, and college preparation.

Career Links:

Know How 2 Go

URL: http://www.knowhow2go.org
This user-friendly website provides useful information whether you are in middle school or graduating from high school. This site provides a “road map” to help you prepare early for college. You can sign up for a newsletter to keep you up-to-date. Be sure to check out the links page for more great sources.

First in the Family
URL: http://www.firstinthefamily.org
Will you be the first person in your family to go to college? If so, you may be interested in the personal stories, recommended tips, facts, and checklists found on this website.

Education Planner
URL:http://www.educationplanner.com/education_planner/default.asp?sponsor=2859
Have you ever wondered whether you learn best by seeing, hearing, or hands on? Well, this website doesn’t only give you the opportunity to discover possible career interests, university programs, and strategies for paying for college. It also helps you identify what kind of learner you are: visual, auditory, or tactile. After all, knowing is half the battle.

Links You Can’t Live Without:

FAFSA
URL: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
This may be the most important website of your college career. Here lies your Free Application for Federal Student Aid. This is how you get grants and student loans. When scholarships don’t quite get you there, the federal government offers many programs to help ends meet. Put this one in your bookmarks and remember to save your PIN!!

The ACT
URL: http://www.actstudent.org
This ACT site contains useful information about the ACT tests including registration information, testing dates, and actual ACT practice questions.

CollegeBoard.com
URL: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/index.html
This website will help you develop an action plan and find an education and career track that match your heart’s desire. Check it out to learn more about your options.

Other Cool Links to Check Out:

Start Here Go Places
URL: http://www.startheregoplaces.com
If you’re interested in a successful career in business and accounting, this is the website for you. The site includes study information, simulation games, scholarships and internship listings, profiles of successful CPA’s, and careers.

Dream It! Do It!
URL: http://www.dreamit-doit.com/
Are you one of those people who like to take things apart just to see how they work? Do you wonder where the things around you come from and who created them? This site offers a cool interactive quiz that will allow you to determine what kind of careers you might like to explore. It also offers a cool interactive game related to building things.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
URL: http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career info and describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earning, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. Click on the A_Z index to explore careers you want to learn more about.

Lifeworks
URL: http://science.education.nih.gov/home2.nsf/Careers
This website contains information on more than 100 medical science and health careers by title, education, required, interest area, or median salary. In addition to factual career data, you’ll find true stories of successful people.