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200 Free Scholarships For Minorities 200 Free Scholarships For Minorities 1) Ron Brown Scholarships      http://www.ronbrown.org/ 2) FastWEB Scholarship Search      http://www.fastweb.com/ 3) United Negro College Fund Scholarships       http://www.uncf.org/scholarships/uncfscholarship.asp 4) Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarships       http://www.jackierobinson.org/ 5) Intel Science Talent Search       http://www.sciserv.org/sts 6) Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund       http://www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org/ 7) FinAid: The Smart Students Guide to     Financial Aid (scholarships)      http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/ 8) United Negro College Fund       http://www.uncf.org/ 9) Gates Millennium Scholarships (Annual)       http://www.gmsp.org/(hmr...

Guide to the Internet for Scholarship Seekers One more time, all together now, “Thank you for the Internet!” The Internet saves enormous time and expense by allowing you to access Web sites specifically designed to help scholarship seekers, visit scholarship Web sites to learn more about the judging, and, in some cases, apply for scholarships online. Not surprisingly, the Internet also presents a number of opportunities to spend money without result. This page discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly on the Web. Scholarship Links Careers and Colleges www.careersandcolleges.com Database of thousands of scholarships worth over $7 billion. Features its own $10,000 scholarship. College Board apps.collegeboard.com Twenty-three hundred sources of college funding, totaling nearly $3 billion in available financial aid. Collegenet/Mach25 www.collegenet.com The Mach25 database contains over six hundred thousand awards totaling over $1.6 billion. Allows key word searc...

The best source of scholarship opportunities is the Internet, through a variety of scholarship directory sites. We have described some of the most popular sites in this chapter. Go through the search process on four or five Web sites. Then make a combined list of scholarships. (Be sure to note which engine identified each scholarship.) Scholarship Web Sites www.finaid.org This is a great site with lots of information available as well as a search function called FastWeb. FastWeb requires (free) registration and development of a profile. The site offers a number of advantages, such as a tracker that reminds you when scholarships you are eligible for are due. The site also provides an e-mail notification service when jobs come up in your local area. The major drawback of this site is the level of commercialism associated with navigation. When you click on a scholarship offering, pop-up windows sometimes appear. You must click off the advertisements to get to the information ...