Helpful Links
Here are some helpful links for high school students!
Not every student can afford to travel the country visiting schools. For the cash-strapped and college bound, there’s CampusTours which allows for a much cheaper virtual alternative to visiting a number of universities. CampusTours builds video tours, photorealistic interactive campus maps, mobile walking tours and custom data-driven multimedia applications for education, non-profit and government clients worldwide.
The organization behind the SAT is dedicated to getting students into higher education and offers great educational resources.
Financial aid is a hugely important process for college and career training. Thinking about it early has benefits and this site is a great resource.
This website explains how to apply financial aid, the types of aid available to students, and information about student loans.
Federal Student Aid, a part of the U.S. Department of Education, is the largest provider of student financial aid in the nation. At the office of Federal Student Aid, our 1,200 employees help make college education possible for every dedicated mind by providing more than $150 billion in federal grants, loans, and work-study funds each year to more than 13 million students paying for college or career school. We are proud to sponsor millions of American minds pursuing their educational dreams.
https://webgrants.csac.ca.gov/
California Student Aid Commission