Colleges

• Campus Tours

  Provides video tours,  photorealistic interactive campus maps, and mobile walking tours of colleges.

• College Confidential

  Online forums on all aspects of college life and the college application process, in which students and parents post questions and comments; college admissions articles.

• College Prowler

  Publishes and sells Off the Record guides of top 200 colleges, and collections of colleges, written by students; website ranks colleges along dimensions including academics, athletics, nightlife.

• College Results Online

  Information on colleges, graduation ranks, popularity of degrees, and a comparison of similar schools.

• Fiske Guide to Colleges

  Includes educational veteran Ted Fiske’s academic, social and quality-of-life ratings, as well as 40+ “best-value” schools.

• NCDA National Career Development Association

  Links to resources for career planning and training.

• The College Board

  Registration for SATs; information about colleges and application process; students can maintain and access personal record.

• The Princeton Review

  Information on colleges, rankings, scholarships, test preparation and courses.

• Thomson Peterson’s

  Information on colleges, test preparation and essay-writing, college consulting.

• U-CAN

  University and College Accountability Network; comprehensive information by college.

• U.S. News and World Report

  Rankings and comprehensive information by college.

• Unigo

  Reviews by current college students; includes evaluations of colleges, photographs, video, feature articles.

Applications

• AMCAS: Medical School Application

  Centralized primary application for medical schools.

• College Net Mach 25

  Facilitates electronic access to college information; provides links to college applications; financial aid information, scholarship information.

• LSAC: Law School Application

  Centralized primary application for law schools.

• The Common Application

  Access to online and paper versions of common application; information on member colleges.

• Universal College Application

  An alternative to the Common Application, accepted by 44 member colleges.

Standardized Testing

• ACT

  Registration for ACT college entrance test, test preparation, college search.

• Educational Testing Service

  Directory of tests, links to test sites, diagnostic tools.

• Fair Test

  Lists colleges with alternate or no standardized testing requirements.

• GRE (Graduate Record Examination)

  Accepted worldwide for graduate school or business school.

• Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

  Offers assessment, programs, services, and publications and resources for academically talented pre-college students.

• LSAT (Law School Admission Test)

  Standardized test for law school admission.

• MCAT (Medical College Admission Test)

  Standardized test for medical school admission.

• SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test)

  Standardized test for admission to private secondary school.

• The College Board

  Registration for SATs, test preparation, college database.

• TOEFL

  TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) is the most widely accepted English language test in the world, accepted by over 8500 colleges and other institutions. The test helps non-native English speakers demonstrate listening, reading, speaking and writing skills at the university level.

Athletics

• National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics

  Sponsored by NACDA, the professional association for intercollegiate athletics administrators, providing information on educational opportunities, scholarships, internships, division news.

• National Collegiate Athletic Association

  The official online resource for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, including information about academics and athletes, eligibility and recruiting, guides for the college-bound student-athlete, schools sponsoring NCAA sports.

Religion

• Catholic College Admissions Association (CCAA)

  Non-profit organization of Catholic colleges and universities committed to promoting the value of Catholic higher education and serving students in the transition to college.

• Hillel

  Information on each college’s estimated Jewish population (undergraduate and graduate), Jewish studies and extracurricular activities, Hillel on-campus organization.

• FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Online

  Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.  Online application form, detailed instructions for completing the form, deadlines. The FAFSA is used to apply for federal student financial aid, such as Pell grant, student loans, and college work-study. In addition, most states and schools use FAFSA information to award their financial aid.

• FastWeb

  An online scholarship matching service and college search service.

• Federal Student Aid Homepage

  Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.  Provides helpful information on federal student aid, and on the college application process.

• National Merit Scholarship Corporation

  Describes the levels of merit scholarship (commended, semi-finalist, finalist) based on PSAT-NMSQT scores; and the sources of merit scholarship funding.

• Sallie Mae

  Information on loans for undergraduates, graduates and parents.

• The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid

  A comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools. Includes info on scholarships, loans, savings plans; with advice on completing financial aid forms.

Graduate Schools

• AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges

  Administers the MCAT, operates the American Medical College Application Service and provides services to facilitate students applying to medical schools and residency programs.

• GMAC: Graduate Management Admission Council

  A non-profit organization of leading graduate business schools around the world.

• LSAC: Law School Admissions Council

  Provides products and services to facilitate the admission process for law schools and their applicants worldwide.

• Peterson’s Graduate School Bound

  Helpful tool for researching and evaluating graduate schools.
  

Assessments

• Myers Briggs Typie Indicator (MBTI)

  Resource for information regarding the world’s leading personality assessment.

• Strong Interest Inventory

  Used by more than 70 percent of U.S. colleges and universities, the Strong Interest Inventory assessment is one of the world’s most widely respected and frequently used career planning tools.

Careers

• O*Net Online

  Created for the U.S. Department of Labor, includes detailed descriptions of occupations.

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

  Data on trends in employment, inflation, pay, workforce; and career information.