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Aid Access your award information, view the status of your academic progress and track any requested documentation. Student Records View grades by term, access unofficial grade transcripts, access credits, view any holds on your account and link to the bursar's office to make payments on your account. Personal Information Update marital status and view and update other personal information, such as permanent, local and billing addresses, next-of-kin and e-mail information. Registration Register, drop and add classes and view class schedule. |
To use Student Tools you must first logon to Flashline through the Kent State Univeristy home page. You will be asked for your Flashline user name and password. Getting Help |
The FAFSA4caster is a federal financial aid estimator that you can use before officially applying for financial aid using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). FAFSA4caster will provide an estimate of your Expected Family Contribution (EFC). Using your EFC FAFSA4caster will then determine what types of federal aid you may qualify for and will provide and estimated award amount for each.
*NOTE: You must notify the Student Financial Aid Office of any changes to your application. To read more about how to do this, click here.
| The College Board's site contains information about planning and paying for college and has seperate sections targeted towards students and parents. |
| The 'College Bound' section on Petersons.com helps students and parents gather information regarding their college search, test preparation, help with admission essays and financial aid. The financial aid section includes a scholarship search. |
| The College is Possible public education campaign is sponsored by the Coalition of America's Colleges and Universities with the goal of providing you the answers on where you can "find the information you need to prepare for college, choose the right college, and pay for college". Just "click" on the picture above or here to visit their website. |
| In today's world a high school education is not enough. Think College Early contains resources for you to help your child develop a plan for success in school and in the world of work. Just "click" on the picture above or here to visit their website. |
| The FinAid Information site is very comprehensive and provides links to sources of information about student financial aid. It is maintained by Mark Kantrowitz, author of The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships. |
| Web address: | http://www.scholarships.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 10 minutes |
| Information required: | Student information, academic information, artistic/athletic information, background information, organizations. |
| Results organized by: | You can customize the way you sort the scholarships. |
| Overall review: | This sites main forte is scholarships, and its a good place to search for them. Being able to order your search results by relevance to you is very helpful. There is also an area for 'Scholarship Sweepstakes' and 'Contests'. |
| Web address: | http://apps.collegeboard.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 5 minutes |
| Information required: | Student information, background information, school information, military relations. |
| Results organized by: | Sorts are in alphabetical order. The display shows the sponsor of scholarship, type of award, and deadline. You must click on each award to find its amount and requirements.. |
| Overall review: | Collegeboard.com is a great site to search for scholarships. It is geared toward high school students. The scholarship search gives lots of results, and the only draw back is having to click on each scholarship to find out its amount and requirements. |
| Web address: | http://www.collegeanswer.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 3 minutes for account (required to do search), 15-20 minutes for scholarship search |
| Information required: | Student information (very detailed), school information, activities/jobs. |
| Results organized by: | Sorts are based on deadline and only the name of the scholarship is available. You must click on each one to get information about them. |
| Overall review: | This is a good site generating more specific results. Collegeanswer.com does not produce a lengthy list of results, however based on more extensive search criteria the results are more relevant than other sites. If you have the time to click on each scholarship, there is a detailed description of each one, including contact information. |
| Web address: | http://www.fastweb.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 10-15 minutes for profile. You must register to do the search. |
| Information required: | Student information, academic information, student activities, and parent/family information. |
| Results organized by: | Read/unread scholarships, name, amount, or deadline. |
| Overall review: | Fastweb.com is the most well-known and a very good site to start your scholarship search. It has detailed information page with links to the sponsors Website. It has lots of scholarships and it keeps an updated list of scholarships. The site will send you an email when new scholarships are available and when deadlines are approaching. Be prepared for pop-ups and advertisements. |
| Web address: | http://www.petersons.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 10 minutes. You must complete a profile to start the search. |
| Information required: | Student information, high school information, activities/awards, college information.. |
| Results organized by: | Name. |
| Overall review: | This is a good site and displays deadlines, amount, and type of award for each scholarship. Clicking on the scholarship will give you detailed information including the requirements. You can save the scholarships that you like to your own list, so you can go back to them any time. |
| Web address: | http://www.collegetoolkit.com |
| Time for search criteria: | <1 minute for sign up (required). 10 minutes for profile. |
| Information required: | Student information, academic information, extracurricular, affiliations, and miscellaneous. |
| Results organized by: | Name, Amount, Deadline, or Number of awards available. |
| Overall review: | Formerly known as Lunch-Money.com. One nice feature is that you can do searches based on only part of the criteria that you entered; for example just geographic information, or just heritage/religious information entered. Click on the scholarships you want to save and they are added to your briefcase, where you can look back on them at any time. You can also apply for some scholarships right from your scholarship search. |
| Web address: | http://www.brokescholar.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 8 minutes. Automatically creates an account for you. |
| Information required: | Student information, school/academic information, activities/interests. |
| Results organized by: | Rating. Scale of 1-4 Stars. |
| Overall review: | This is a great site with lots of information displayed about each scholarship (name, type, amount, deadline, and rating). You can pick scholarships to save to your own list, and that list can be organized by name, amount or deadline. Another really nice feature is that it keeps a calendar of deadlines for the scholarships you have selected. You can also choose to have emails sent to you when scholarship deadlines are approaching. |
| Web address: | http://www.collegedata.com |
| Time for search criteria: | 10-15 minutes. |
| Information required: | Personal information, college plans, and academic information. |
| Results organized by: | Random. |
| Overall review: | The beginning of this page gives very clear and basic instructions on how to use their scholarship search. The results on this page are listed in a well organized way and there is an easy to read chart. There are many results listed. Clicking on the individual scholarships provides a more detailed description and additional information. Overall, this site is easy to navigate and returns a respectable number of scholarships. |