Florida
Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Popular Name: Bright Futures
Objectives: The Bright Futures Scholarship Program is the umbrella
program for the Florida Academic Scholars, Florida Merit Scholars and the Florida
Gold Seal Vocational Scholars Awards.
Applicant Eligibility: Be a Florida
resident and see the web site for several other easy eligibility requirements.
FLORIDA ACADEMIC SCHOLARS AWARD
Amount Of Funding: 100% of
tuition and fees plus an annual $600 cost of education allowance
Applicant
Eligibility: Be a Florida resident and see the web site for several other
easy eligibility requirements.
FLORIDA GOLD SEAL VOCATIONAL SCHOLARS AWARD
Amount Of Funding:
75% of tuition and fees.
Applicant Eligibility: Be a Florida resident
and see the web site for several other easy eligibility requirements.
Free
Application for Federal Student Aid
Popular Name: FAFSA
Objectives:
Your financial aid package is likely to include funds from the Student Financial
Assistance Programs. These programs, administered by the U.S. Department of Education,
provide 70% of all student financial assistance, (over $33 billion a year)
Applicant
Eligibility: Postsecondary education students Free to anyone.
Mach25
Popular Name: Mach25
Objectives: The Mach25
database contains over 600,000 awards totaling over $1.6 billion. Quick and easy
to use.
Applicant Eligibility: Free to anyone.
Federal
Pell Grant Program
Popular Name: Pell Grants
Objectives:
To provide eligible undergraduate postsecondary students who have demonstrated
financial need with grant assistance to help meet educational expenses.
Applicant
Eligibility: Undergraduate students enrolled as regular students in an eligible
program at an eligible institution of higher education and making satisfactory
academic progress. The applicants must be U.S. citizens or eligible noncitizens
and have a high school diploma, a GED, or demonstrate the ability to benefit from
the program offered.
Federal
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants
Popular Name: SEOG
Objectives: To provide eligible undergraduate postsecondary students
with demonstrated financial need with grant assistance to help meet educational
expenses.
Applicant Eligibility: Higher education institutions (public,
private nonprofit, postsecondary vocational, and proprietary) meeting eligibility
requirements may apply.
State
Student Incentives Grants
Popular Name: SSIG
Objectives:
To provide grants to the States for use in programs of financial assistance
to eligible postsecondary students.
Applicant Eligibility: Postsecondary
education students with substantial financial need will benefit.
fastWEB
Free Grant Search Service
Popular Name: fastWEB
Objectives:
fastWEB provides students more than 400,000 listings of scholarships, fellowships,
grants, and loans.
Applicant Eligibility: Free to anyone.
Scholarship
Resource Network
Popular Name: SRN
Objectives:
A free web version of the Scholarship Resource Network database with detailed
information on more than 7,000 mostly portable, private-sector, non-need-based
awards.
Applicant Eligibility: Free to anyone.
Sallie
Mae's Online Scholarship Service
Popular Name: CASHE
Objectives:
Sallie Mae's free Online Scholarship Service. This service gives students exclusive
Internet access to CASHE® (College Aid Sources for Higher Education), one of the
industry's most respected and omprehensive sources of financial aid resources
for college. This valuable, time-saving tool can assist students and their parents
who are seeking ways to help finance a college education.
Applicant Eligibility:
Free to anyone.
College
Board’s Scholarship Search
Popular Name: ExPan
Objectives:
Here you can locate scholarships, loans, internships, and other financial aid
programs from non-college sources that match your education level, talents, and
background. Complete the profile form and Scholarship Search will find potential
scholarship opportunities from a database of 3,400 programs, over one million
awards in all!
Applicant Eligibility: Free to anyone.
College
is Possible
Popular Name: College is Possible
Objectives:
Thinking about college? Whether you are a parent or a student, you probably have
a lot of questions: How does the application process work? What sort of college
is right for me? How much will college cost? You've come to the right place to
begin finding answers. America's colleges and universities have prepared this
site to guide you to the books, websites, and other resources that admissions
and financial aid professionals consider most helpful. With planning, preparation
-- and the right information -- college is possible for almost every American.
Applicant Eligibility: Free to anyone.
Florida
Prepaid College Program
Florida
Department of Education
Florida
Office of Student Financial Assistance
State
of Florida Student Aid Programs
State
of Florida Minority Aid
State
of Florida Office for Equal Opportunity Programs
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