Colleges That Change Lives

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.



The College Search & Selection Process
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”
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
"Who Needs Harvard?" article from The Atlantic and The Brookings Institute

Financial Assistance & Scholarships
American Indian College Fund
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 Student Guide
United Negro College Fund

Academic Honors & Awards
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

Life at College
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

Intercollegiate Athletics
Campus Champs
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
Varsity Edge

Professional Organizations
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)

Online Bookstores
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble.com

Campus Safety & Security, Wellness
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.

Miscellaneous
Association on Higher Education and Disability
School Psychology Resources Online


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