We're working on getting more resources on these topics in our Young Adult collection. We have many other college resources in our Adult section. Additional information on careers can be found in both the Children's and Adult departments.
Books about Preparing for College
But What If I Don't Want To Go To College? (TEEN 374 UNGER)
Coping with Academic Anxiety (TEEN 378 OTTENS)
Campus Life Exposed (TEEN 378.1 COHEN)
Writing a Successful College Application Essay (TEEN 378.1 EHRENHAFT)
Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean (TEEN 878.1 MITCHELL)
After the SAT's: An Insider's Guide to Freshman Year (TEEN 378.1 PAIGE)
The Portable College Adviser (YA 378.1 ROBERTS)
The College Application Essay (TEEN 378.105 McGINTY)
Hot Words for the SAT 1 (TEEN 378.166 BROMBERG)
How to Go to College Almost for Free (TEEN 378.8 KAPLAN)
Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late-Blooming, Just Plain Different (TEEN 378.73 ASHER)
Choosing the Right College : The Whole Truth About America's 100 Top Schools (TEEN 378.73 CHOOSING)
Researching Colleges on the Web (TEEN 378.73 COCHRANE)
Real Athletes Guide: How to Succeed in Sports, School, and Life (YA 796.04 ISENBERG)
Essays That Will Get You Into College (YA 808 BURNHAM)
A Few Books about Careers
The Young Person's Occupational Handbook (YA REF 331.702 YOUNG 1999)
Careers for Nature Lovers & Other Outdoor Types (TEEN 333.7 MILLER)
Guide to Military Careers (TEEN 355 HUTTON)
Careers for Environmental Types and Others Who Respect the Earth (TEEN 363.7 FASULO)
Careers for Bookworms and Other Literary Types (TEEN 381 EBERTS)
Creating Your High School Resume (TEEN 650.14 TROUTMAN)
Art (YA 700 REEVES)
Careers for Crafty People and Other Dextrous Types (YA 745.023 ROWH)
Careers for Sports Nuts and Other Athletic Types (YA 796.023 HEITZMANN)
Register for the SAT online. Once you've taken it, send your scores to schools. Plus lots of other information about applying to colleges, including a useful calendar. Includes searches for colleges, scholarships, college codes, careers, and sample test questions. This site also has a section for parents.
This site features almost 32,000 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. Use the Advanced Search to quickly locate schools by major, tuition, enrollment, state, or degrees offered. Some parts of this site require registration.
Includes information on almost 4,000 colleges. For some of them, a virtual tour or the opportunity to ask questions from a virtual advisor is available.
Financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education, including a link to an on-line FAFSA form. (Title IV codes are also available elsewhere on this site.)
Practice questions for AP, SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, and LSATs. Also includes information about financial aid, colleges and universities, and careers and jobs
The United States Department of Education Federal Student Financial Assistance Program. Fill out and submit your application online. For more information, see the FAFSA introduction page.
This site provides comprehensive information on colleges, with a special focus on finding scholarships. Users may create a profile and an email box and request that information fitting their needs be sent to them.
The Student Financial Assistance Programs are the largest source of student aid in America, providing over $40 billion a year in grants, loans, and work-study assistance. This portal opens the doors to help for every stage of the financial aid process, whether you're in school or out of school.
Get an idea of what the GED is like on this site sponsored by Steck-Vaughn. Take a mini-test of about fifteen questions on almost all sections of the GED. There is no charge, but you must register.
This site is geared more towards selling its courses and membership, but there are some free offerings available. Besides its test prep books, Kaplan also offers a free online ACT/SAT test (you must register first), information about the tests (including upcoming changes, and a sample essay with comments about its structure. Membership gets you additional benefits. Finding what you are looking for on this site can be a bit of a challenge.
Search for colleges and scholarships for both undergraduate and graduate students. Search can be limited by location, cost, major, and other factors. Includes links to distance learning opportunities. The financial aid section allows you to search for various aid packages. However, this area and the test prep areas both require registration and there is a fee to access online practice tests.
Test-taking info, of course, but also much more, including sections on interviews, visits, essays, transcripts, and what colleges want. Some ads for Princeton Review products.
The Sallie Mae site is an excellent source of information about college costs and student loans. It also has sections on preparing for college, and selecting and applying to college. Be sure to click on the WiredScholar links in each section.
You can take up to ten mini-tests (10 questions each) in sentence completion, analogies, comprehension, problem solving, quantitative comparisions, and grid-ins. Several word lists are also provided, although there is no test offered for them.
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