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Reviews Published in Books
Several books have been published that provide printed guides to the
best sites on the World Wide Web. This page contains excerpts from
reviews of the Financial Aid Information Page that were published
in such books.
4154 FinAid®: The Financial Aid Information Page. "A
comprehensive resource for student financial aid information, it
includes an online searchable database of financial aid resources;
loan calculators; points to other financial aid resources on the Web;
and much more."
Page 107. This book, and its companion web site, provide
information about online college courses. It mentions the Financial
Aid Information Page as a key resource for financial aid information,
giving an overview of the resources on the page, and highlighting the
"financial aid estimation utility that generates a picture of your
academic financial needs".
Page 180. College Resources on the Internet. "Mark
Kantrowitz, a computer-science graduate student at Carnegie Mellon
University, has compiled a staggering amount of information about
financial aid, student loans, scholarships and other topics of
interest to college students and their parents - with links to college
financial-aid offices, state aid agencies, the Department of
Education's student-aid guide, instructions for filling out
financial-aid forms, and much more."
CyberHound gave the FinAid® Page a four-bone rating, the highest rating.
Page 394. The Financial Aid Information Page (FinAid®).
"If Daddy Warbucks isn't going to fund your half-a-dozne-or-so-year
adventure to Somewhere University and your newspaper route will not
cover even the bus far, you had better start investigating financial
aid. Don't depend on your school counselor to know squat; this is the
one you need to do for yourself. There are multitudes of ways to
squeeze money out of institutions both private and public. The FinAid®
Page is just the ticket to make sure you can find a bunch of
them. Don't skip college, live at home, and flip burgers. Read one
section, read them all! Loans, grants, etc. are not all dependent on
ethnicity, grades, area of interest or whatever. If you look hard and
long enough, you will find the money. This page helps you hit every
possibility. net gain: If you are interested in college
whatsoever and money makes a difference, this is required
reading. net loss: How about applications online? Updated as needed."
Page 209. Financial Aid Information. "This page provides
links to dozens of sources of information on obtaining financial aid.
It also features fastWEB, Financial Aid Search Through the Web, at no
cost. This searchable database contains information on more than
180,000 private sector grants, loans, and scholarships. Try out the
financial aid estimation form, which performs an instant need analysis
that will give you a general idea of your ability to pay for college."
Jump 2054. Paying for College.
"There are numerous grant, loan, and other college financial aid
programs available. The problem has been finding them. Mark
Kantrowitz, author of a book on financial aid for math and science
students, provides the means to locate potential sources of aid and
how to apply for it with this list of links. Included are links to
databases of aid programs, specific aid and grant programs, college
financial aid offices, and informational documents. Each link has a
brief description to help you find the most useful information for
you."
Pages 266-267. Financial aid information. "Wouldn't it
just kill you to work your way through grad school, only to discover
on graduation day that there was a grant or scholarship you could have
gotten that would have considerably eased your burden? That's why you
owe it to yourself to tap info "FinAid® - The Financial Aid Information
Page" (Fig. 20-1) created and maintained by Mark Kantrowitz at
Carnegie Mellon University. ... As you can perhaps tell from the small
portion of the Web page shown in Fig. 20-1, FinAid® is packed with
information about loans, grants, scholarships, fellowships - you name
it. You'll also find links to the financial aid offices at specific
colleges and universities, along with features like "Mark's FinAid®
Calculators", "Scam Alert", and "Ask the Aid Advisor". There's even a
link to a free service called FastWEB, a searchable database of more
than 180,000 source of private sector funding. You'll wish you had
discovered this site before you began your undergraduate program!"
Page 217.
Financial Aid. Want some free money or even some cheap money? Get
the scoop on how to pay your way through college by filling out forms
for money. The web page has information about student financial aid,
information about specialized schools like grad school, law school,
and medical school. The Usenet discussion group is a place where you
can ask questions, talk or gripe about financial aid and your
experiences. My advice is to get as much free money as you can, and
borrow as little as possible.
Web: http://www.finaid.org/ Pages 107, 109, 113, 115, and 170.
"This award-winning site, called FinAid®, provides excellent links to
Internet sources of information about student financial aid. It is
maintained by Mark Kantrowitz, a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon
University. Don't miss this site!"
The Financial Aid Information Page was rated as one of the top
1000 web sites in this book by Point Communications. Their review
appears on page 422.
Financial Aid Information.
"College grant and loan information doesn't come any straighter than this
index, maintained by Mark Kantrowitz of Carnegie Mellon University.
... Students of all ages will appreciate these plain-vanilla links ...
Direct links to fellowship databases will be of particular interest to
grad students, and the grants and scholarship pages go on for days. ...
A ton of good info here."
Page 13. "For an overview of all the financial aid information
in cyberspace, spend some time with Mark Kantrowitz at
http://www.finaid.org. His site links to numerous resources including
student aid publications, student aid organizations, scholarship
databases and contact information for financial aid offices. ... Your
best bet is to visit Mark Kantrowitz (see address above) and learn to
use one of the many search engines to pinpoint the company or type of
information you need."
This book (and CD-ROM) reviews 10,000 web sites, and rates them
for content, design, and flow (organization). Luckman also estimates
the average speed of access using 28.8 kbps modems. The FinAid® Page
received two reviews from Luckman, both receiving five "planet"
ratings for content and four planet ratings overall:
Financial Aid Information Page (page 79). "Maintained and
created by Mark Kantrowitz, author of "The Prentice Hall Guide to
Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students", this
extensive compilation of financial aid, scholarship, and fellowship
information resources provides users with a thorough list of links.
Included are the Scam Alert, FAQs, Mark's Picks, Glossary, University
Financial Aid Offices, Scholarship Search Services, Student Aid
Crisis, and more. This is an excellent resource."
Mark's Financial Aid Calculators (page 81). "Parents and
students will find this page to be a worthwhile tool for determining
education costs. Each calculator consists of a blank form requestion
information such as interest rate, income, and investment duration. It
then computes loan costs, compares different loans, and projects a
college savings plan. Part of the Financial Aid Information Page, this
site leads the user to other financial aid information repositories.
This site is a must for those interested in managing the cost of their
college education."
Page 560. Annotated Bibliography of Financial Aid Resource
Materials. "A guide to resources that will get you through the
college process without selling the house and car. Both government and
private sources are listed and evaluated."
Page 561. Financial Aid Offices. "Links to the financial aid and
admissions offices of several American colleges and universities. You
can also access information on scholarships, fellowships and grants,
or retrieve a bibliography of resources for offline reading on college
funding."
Page 561. Funding Graduate School. "If there is anything harder
than paying for college, it's paying for graduate school. This is a
list of graduate school funding options."
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants. "A collection of
fellowship opportunities prepared by major universities. The
fellowship listings may be repetitious, but it is nevertheless
worthwhile to study each school's catalogue for little-known yet
lucrative programs. Keep in mind that the clearinghouse nature of the
project yields uneven results: while some universities merely list
opportunities, other have taken the time to build searchable
databases. The University of Kansas, for instance, has a particularly
useful listing, with fellowships organized by deadline."
Page 34. FinAid®: The Financial Aid Information Page. Just
remember that time is money: you'll have to allot yourself plenty of
the former while checking out this site if you want to score lots of
the latter in terms of financial aid for college. Some of the many
resources available here are: a form for electronically submitting
questions to financial aid advisors; a glossary of financial aid
terms; calculation tools for determining how much your family will be
asked to contribute to college expenses; and how much aid you'll need.
This stie also has links to other financial aid resources on the Web,
including sources of scholarships/fellowships, grants, loans, and
tuition payment plans. Links are further cataloged according to
special interest grousp (i.e., students with disabilities, students
from minority backgrounds, older students). A good place to start at
this extensive site would probably be Mark's Picks, a selection of the
best/most popular financial aid sites.
Page 36. FinAid® FAQ. Rather than waiting around for it to be
reposted on the college and education newsgroups, you can come here to
read the latest update of the FAQ on Financial Aid, Scholarships, and
Fellowships. The questions and answers provided here give the lowdown
on getting - or not getting - money for school. You might not yet
understand how PC = (EPC + (n-1) x $500)/n, or what that means about
financing your college education, but you will soon: just let the FAQ
demystify the process for you. The FAQ offers advice and warnings, and
also has sections for foreign students and the issue of the taxability
of financial aid.
Page 45. University Financial Aid Office Web Pages. This
subsection of FinAid®: The Financial Aid Information Page is worth
noting for students with specific college destinations. Search by
college/university name to be connected to institution-specific pages
dealing with financial aid for students.
Page 55. Financial Aid Jokes and Anecdotes. Proving that there
really is humor in everything, this collection of financial aid jokes
and anecdotes is probably best to look at when you've been
contemplating financial aid for so long that the FAFSA and SAR seem
nothing less than an incomprehensible alphabet soup. Particularly
entertaining are the top ten lists for entering the financial aid
field. From "Top Ten Reasons to Work in Financial Aid" - "No. 9:
Sometimes, you get to make people cry."
The review of the Financial Aid Information Page appears on
page 163.
"The Financial Aid Information Page offers a collection of
financial aid information on the Internet. Includes links to all
online scholarship and fellowship databases and information about
grants and loans, as well as links to university financial aid web and
gopher servers and a link to the online version of Octameron
Associate's book."
Page 450. **** FinAid®: The Financial Aid Information
Page. "Maintained by Mark Kantrowitz, author of The Prentice
Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science
Students, this site is an incredible compendium of resources for
financing your education, including grants, scholarships, loans,
fellowships, information for foreign students, university financial
aid offices, government resources, links to search services and much,
much more. If you (or your kid) is in college or about to be, you
probably can't afford to not visit this site.
Page 97. Financial Aid Information. "Mark Kantrowitz is the
co-author of the Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and
Fellowships for Math and Science Students; he knows whereof he links."
Financial Aid Information
"This site contains numerous resources for new and returning students looking
for financial aid information. Located at Carnegie-Mellon University, this
site has a variety of resources, including a FAQ, bibliography, related
mailing lists, and phone numbers of financial aid organizations, as well as
extensive lists of scholarships, grants, and loans. Also helpful is the
scam alert area, which educates users about false claims and bogus student
aid offers."
Buddy Can You Spare a College Education?
"Were it not for financial aid programs (or deep pockets from Mom
and Dad), a college education would be only a dream to many. Here's a
site that's making it easier for the college-bound of today to become
the college grads of tomorrow.
Helping to cut through the bureaucratic red tape, the Financial Aid
Information page will answer many of the questions needy students have
about the application process, loan information, loan alternatives,
and much more. This site is also great for financial aid
administrators who need to keep abreast of the latest aid information."
Pages 202-203. The FinAid® Page. "If it's time for
college, it's time for this page. You can find a lender, get in touch
with your school's financial aid office, compare options, read the
regulations, and use some nifty software to calculate just how much
you'll be in debt for when school's over."
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