College Resources
Resources to Learn About College Options:
The College Board’s Big Future site offers guides, videos, and webinars about every part of the college search and application process. Set up a profile to have the site customized to your needs.
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/
Jackson Hole High School’s College Planning Guide is available for free download. It includes important information and deadlines for the college application process.
http://www.tcsd.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=17198&linkid=nav-menu-container-4-64268
Resources to Explore Interests:
The US News College Personality Quiz helps students identify which university characteristics they find important:
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/right-school/choices/articles/2008/08/21/college-personality-quiz
This free career interest quiz suggests potential career paths:
http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip
Resources to Prepare for Admissions Exams:
These sites allow users to register and prepare for the ACT and SAT exams. The Teton County Library has lots of additional resources to help prepare for these exams, so please give us a call for more information.
http://www.actstudent.org/
http://sat.collegeboard.org
Resources to Make a List of Potential Match Schools:
These websites have advanced search options that allow users to find colleges based on a number of different qualities.
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search
http://www.collegeview.com/index.jsp
http://www.cappex.com
If you can’t find the information you are looking for, try using the forum on College Prowler:
http://collegeprowler.com/
Resources to Learn About Financial Aid and Scholarships:
This article explains the difference between the advertised price of college and what families actually pay:
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/college-costs/understanding-college-costs
This guide to financial aid and scholarships explains the basics of financial aid and includes advice for conducting a scholarship search and writing scholarship essays:
http://www.chci.org/doclib/201033162422441-Financial_AidandScholarshipsGuide.pdf?trail=201089173156
The U.S. Government publishes this website on financial aid:
http://studentaid.ed.gov/
The FAFSA4Caster site calculates how much federal financial aid families will be eligible for:
https://fafsa.ed.gov/FAFSA/app/f4cForm?execution=e2s1
Resources to Search for Scholarships:
Local scholarship information is available for download from the JHHS website:
http://www.tcsd.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=17198&linkid=nav-menu-container-4-64268
These sites maintain lists of national scholarships:
http://www.scholarships.com
http://www.finaid.org/
http://www.fastweb.com/
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/scholarship-search
http://www.cappex.com
http://collegeprowler.com/
http://www.zinch.com
http://go.salliemae.com/scholarship/default.aspx?dtd_cell=SMBRSHWBSSOTN010000
University of Wyoming Scholarships:
http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/scholarships/index.html
Scholarships for Hispanic Students:
http://www.maldef.org/leadership/scholarships/index.html
http://www.e4fc.org/images/E4FC_Scholarships.pdf
http://lideres.nclr.org/content/opportunities/
http://www.chci.org/scholarships/
http://www.hsf.net/
http://www.latinocollegedollars.org/
