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COLLEGE AND FINANCIAL AID RESOURCES
Resources for Standardized Testing:
Resources for Financial Aid:
www.studentaid.ed.gov - Free information for Federal Student Assistance from U.S. Department of Education
www.mefa.org - not-for-profit site with advice on financing higher education
The Department of Education's Student Aid Website (www.studentaid.ed.gov) includes an early estimator that allows families to use current earnings as a basis for estimating what they will be expected to pay for their child's first year of college.
Educational Opportunity Centers: displaced or underemployed workers from low-income families are given counseling about career and postsecondary options, and are directed towards financial aid opportunities.
Mapping Your Future (www.mapping-your-future.org/MHSS) an initiative of the financial aid industry that provides college, career, and financial aid information to students, families, and schools.
General Resources:
The Gatekeepers, Jacques Steinberg
Steinberg, a journalist spends a year with an admissions counselor from Wesleyan University. The novel gives an inside look into the admissions process at an elite college.
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