General College Admissions Resources

All About College - www.allaboutcollege.com
All about college includes links to colleges and universities around the world. Other categories covered include graduate schools, college chat, free stuff, financial aid, test preparation, student travel, job searching, study abroad.

American Colleges & Universities - globalcomputing.com/university.htm
This site has links to the home pages of most American colleges and universities, in alphabetical order.

American Universities - www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
Here are links to the home pages for U.S. colleges, listed alphabetically.

American Council on Education - www.ACENET.edu
This site of the American Council on Education provides a variety of information on educational issues.

College and University Admissions - collegeappps.about.com
Information on essays, financial aid, testing, interviews, study abroad, college search, and more.

College Board - www.collegeboard.com
This web site, maintained by the College Board and the Educational Testing Service, has information for students, parents, counselors, faculty. Resources include college selection, admission, financial aid, and the SAT (SAT prep &registration). See also www.ets.org.

College Confidential - www.collegeconfidential.com
Here you can find a wealth of information on such topics as college selection, college admissions, discussion forums, college life, financial aid.

College is Possible - www.collegeispossible.org
This website of the American Council on Education includes preparing for college, choosing colleges, and paying for college.

CollegeXpress - www.collegexpress.com
This site is divided into college search, scholarship search, and loan search sections.

Colleges.Com - www.colleges.com
This site has information on college admissions, financial aid, careers, travel and SAT’s.

Common Application - www.commonapp.org
This site allows you to download an electronic Common Application that you can use to apply to any of the 200+ colleges that use the common application.

Educational On-Line - www.edonline.com
This website contains information on careers, college selection and financial aid, plus a listing of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and links to African-American related sites.

Fishnet/The College Guide - www.mycollegeguide.org
This college guide includes links to a search mechanism, admissions questions and answers, financial aid information, the common application, and articles about college.

Go College - www.gocollege.com
This basic site has sections on finding colleges, applying, financial aid, distance learning, and testing.

America's Best Colleges -  www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/eduhome.htm
The magazine’s website features their annual ranking of colleges. There are also college profiles, articles and pictures as well as information on financial aid, careers, graduate schools. Comparison charts allow users to compare up to four colleges at a time, based on 34 factors.

Peterson’s The College Channel - www.petersons.com/ugrad
Peterson’s website provides information on subjects covered by Peterson’s guidebooks: undergraduate colleges, testing aids, essay writing, financial aid, summer programs, arts colleges, essays, college prep , study abroad, careers, as well as providing college search capability.

Prepare Your Child for College - www.ed.gov
This U.S. Dept. of Education website has information on finding and paying for college, financial aid, international education. See also www.ed.gov/thinkcollege for general information.

XAP.com - www.xap.com
This Xap company site provides information on college selection and application, career planning, campus tours, testing, career planning and financial aid.

CollegeNet - www.collegenet.com
This website focuses on links to information about colleges, financial aid, sports, college preparation, virtual tours, and safety. There is a database of schools to search using several variables, and students can apply online to more than 500 colleges.

CollegeView - www.collegeview.com
College View is a multimedia college search program, with information on 3,800 two and four year institutions.. Searches of the database are supported, college stats are provided, and there is information about financial aid, virtual tours, applying, and info for international students.

College Choice Walking Tours - www.collegiatechoice.com
This site lists more than 350 videos, available for $15 each, made by independent college advisors taking tours and asking questions at various campuses. The videos are designed to be informal, honest, and cheaper than on-campus visits. There is also information on visiting, essay writing, SAT’s, applying, etc.

Campus Tours - www.campustours.com
In addition to providing virtual campus tours, College Tours also provides live webcams, maps, links to various sites for students, and college videos.

Community Colleges - www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/index.html
You can search this index of community college web sites alphabetically, geographically, or by keyword.

Freeality Internet Search - www.freeality.com/colleges.htm
A general search engine that includes links to many college and financial aid sites.

Historically Black Colleges & Universities - www.sdbp.com
A list of HBCU’s (historically black colleges and universities) is under Educational Resources in the San Diego Black Pages, which has links to each of the institutions and to many resources for African American students.

AJCUnet - www.ajcunet.edu
This website provides information and links to the 28 members of the U.S. Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

Ivy League - www.miskatonic.net/university/ivy.html
Provides links to Ivy League colleges and universities.

National Association of College Admission Counselors - www.nacac.com/fairs.html
This is the site for high school college counselors and college admissions personnel. Included here are lists of college fairs which NACAC sponsors around the country.

Yahoo! College Search
General information on colleges and search process, testing, scholarships.

Your Virtual Interview - www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/CollegePrep/interview.html
This site gives sample questions and answers to help you prepare for college interviews.