Featured Links

These featured Web sites will provide answers to questions about everything from financial assistance and scholarships to standardized tests to the kinds of awards and accolades CTCL grads regularly earn. Click on the links below to get help writing an application essay, to learn about intercollegiate athletics, or to find useful information, including articles, on the college selection process. If there’s a link you’d like to see included on this page, please email us and we’ll do our best to add it.

• ACT, Inc

• Admissions Trend Survey

• College Board Online

• Common App

• The Education Conservancy

• Independent Educational Consultants Association

• National Bureau of Economic Research article, “On the Payoff to Attending an Elite College”

• The National Survey of Student Engagement

• TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

• The University and College Accountability Network [UCAN]

• "Who Needs Harvard?" article from The Atlantic and The Brookings Institute

• FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

• FastWeb, the Internet’s leading scholarship search service

• FinAid, The SmartStudentTM Guide to Financial Aid

• Financial Aid Calculators

• FirstGov.gov, the U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal (English)

• FirstGov en Español, the U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal (Spanish)

• Hispanic Scholarship Fund

• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Report, September 30, 2003

• Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading provider of education funding

• Student Aid Alliance

• The American Indian College Fund

• The Student Guide

• United Negro College Fund

• The Fulbright Grant

• The Gates Millennium Scholarship

• The Goldwater Scholarship

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship

• The Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program

• The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarships

• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships

• Marshall Scholarship

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

• The Morris K. Udall Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship

• National Conferences on Undergraduate Research

• National Honor Society

• The National Merit Scholarship

• National Science Foundation Grants

• The Phi Beta Kappa Society

• The Rhodes Scholarship

• Rotary International

• The Truman Scholarship

• The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

• The Study Abroad Information Source

• Higher Education Research Institution, Home of the CIRP

• Hillel: Jewish Campus Life

• Idealist, information on volunteering

• Intern Abroad

• Internships

• The National Survey of Student Engagement

• World Volunteer Web

• NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)

• NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)

• Varsity Edge

• Association of American Colleges and Universities

• The Council for Advancement and Support of Education

• The Foundation for Independent Higher Education

• Independent Educational Consultants Association

• NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling)

• NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools)

• NRCCUA (National Research Center for College and University Admissions)

• Amazon.com

• Barnes & Noble.com

• Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH

• American College Health Association

• Campus Crime and Security

• College Drinking, Changing the Culture, from the National Institute on Alcohol Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention

• Prevention Online, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA’s National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

• Security on Campus, Inc.

• Association on Higher Education and Disability

• School Psychology Resources Online