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American Student Assistance
http://www.amsa.com/default.asp
American Student Assistance (ASA) has assisted 1.4 million students successfully finance and repay their education costs.

College Board
http://www.collegeboard.org/fundfinder/html/ssrchtop.html

This site helps students search a database of more than 2,000:

  • Scholarships
  • Loans
  • Internships
  • Other financial aid programs

College Link
http://www.collegelink.com/clnk/scholarship/s_a_results.asp?cat=NG
This site contains over 180 Nursing Scholarships.

Fast Web
http://www.fastweb.com
This site offers personalized scholarship searches

FreSch!
http://www.freschinfo.com/index.phtml
This site offers free scholarship information services.

Merit Scholarships
http://www.nationalmerit.org/index.htm
The Merit Scholarship Corporation awards about 5,000 scholarships each year.

Students compete based upon:

  • Test scores
  • Academic and extracurricuilar achievements
  • School recommendations

To be considered, you must take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) in the fall of your junior year in high school.

Scholarship Resource Network Express
http://www.srnexpress.com/index.cfm

  • This site contains a database of over 8,000 scholarship programs.

Xap.com
http://www.xap.com/getmoney