Multi-purpose
Web sites
Career Decision-making and Planning
Preparing for College
Scholarships and Financial Aid Resources
State and Federal Government Resources
Study Skills Resources
Test Preparation Resources
Utah Colleges and Universities
| Multi-purpose
Web sites (Sites that help with most aspects of
educational and career planning) |
echoices
echoices is the premiere Web site for obtaining online
assistance in the educational and career planning process.
For Jordan School District high school students and their
parents, this is the place to begin. In order to access
the site, you must first obtain entry codes and passwords
from your school. After that, you may enter from any computer,
at any time, for free. www.echoices.com
Utah
Mentor
This wonderful site is being made available to Utah students,
parents, and educators through the Utah Higher Education
Assistance Authority (UHEEA). Similar to echoices in many
ways, this site has the capability to lead students through
the process of career planning as well as educational
planning. The focus is on preparing for training beyond
high school at in-state institutions. One neat feature
is that students may complete one application and submit
it electronically to several in-state schools at the same
time.
www.utahmentor.com
Davis
School District
The Davis School District has compiled a number of resources
and Web sites in one place under the heading of SEOP Self-tour.
It makes a nice addition to the sites listed on the Jordan
School District Web site. www.davis.k12.ut.us/seop/SelfTour.htm
College
Board
College Board is the organization responsible for producing
such widely known assessments as the SAT, PSAT, and AP.
They have also compiled one of the most extensive Web
sites dealing with college and career preparation on the
internet.
www.collegeboard.com
Wired
Scholar.com
A complete package of guides for the student who is planning
on attending college after high school. www.wiredscholar.com
| Career
Decision-making and Planning |
Mapping
Your Future
Although this Web site is primarily a source for information
on financial aid, it also includes excellent information
and tools to help students make important career decisions
and plan ways to reach career goals.
http://mapping-your-future.org
My
Future.com
A military sponsored site, Myfuture.com provides numerous
helps for financial, educational, and career planning.
It also includes good information on careers in the military.
www.myfuture.com
Educational
and Career Planning
This is a section of the ACT-sponsored Web site. It provides
connections between occupations and programs of study
in colleges and universities. It also includes testimonials
from students who have attended various colleges. A helpful
place to go if you want to learn from the experiences
of older students.
www.act.org/edcareer/index.html
O
Net
This site is a collection of assessments, data, guides,
and just plain good information related to career planning.
It is a government Web site which caters more to adults
than to students, but it can still be very helpful to
students who are serious about getting accurate and up-to-date
career information.
http://online.onetcenter.org
Library
of the Workplace
This site shows students how the skills and knowledge
they gain in the classroom connect to the skills they
will need in the workplace.
http://cord.org/workplacelibrary
Jobhunter's
Bible. Com
This site is produced by the writers of the popular career
planning book, What Color is Your Parachute? It
is rich in career assessments and planning and exploration
tools.
www.jobhuntersbible.com
Virtual
Jobshadowing
Want to spend part of your day experiencing a job first-hand?
While you are in school, that can be a challenge, but
not with this site. Here you can see and hear what is
happening at the job-site of many favorite occupations
on the net. It requires the assistance of a counselor,
teacher, or other adult mentor to set up the job shadow
experience, but it could really help you decide whether
a specific occupation is for you or not.
www.jobshadow.org
The
Career Key
Sponsored by the College of Education at North Carolina
State University, this site provides a free career assessment,
which will aid you in choosing a career pathway.
www.careerkey.org
College
is Possible
This is an excellent site for checking out the important
things high school students should know and do in order
to make college a success.
www.collegeispossible.org
"Preparing
Your Kids for College" An online recourse book for
parents
This document, produced by the US Department of Education,
is an excellent source for parents, especially for those
who are preparing their first child for college.
www.ed.gov/pubs/Prepare
Myroad.com
In order to enjoy all of the features of this College
Board produced Web site, you would have to pay to obtain
a password. However, there are several free services that
are very helpful in preparing for and selecting a college.
www.myroad.com
| Scholarships
and Financial Aid Resources |
Kiplinger.com
This is an excellent site for mapping out a strategy to
pay for college. It poses all the important questions
and provides solid answers.
www.kiplinger.com/managing/college/plan
U.S.
News and World Report
Yes, this is a news magazine Web site, but don't let that
fool you. U.S. News provides one of the most extensive
sources of college information available on the internet,
including a summary of their annual rankings of the best
colleges and universities in the country. This page of
their site will connect you to numerous sources of scholarships.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/dollars/dshome.htm
Collegenet.com,
Mach 25 Scholarship Search
This site boasts a database of over 600,000 awards worth
over $1.6 billion. They also claim that you can use the
site without the risk of receiving tons of junkmail later
on. Check it out.
www.collegenet.com/mach25
Fastweb
This is perhaps the largest and most well known of all
scholarship-search sites on the web. In addition to a
listing of over 600,000 scholarships, Fastweb also provides
articles and guides that may be helpful in the process
of finding money for college.
www.fastweb.com
Finaid.org
This is an excellent source for guides, calculators, and
general information on financing a college education.
This site actually uses Fastweb as a link for the scholarship
search process.
www.finaid.org
2006
Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aids
This is primarily a directory of sites that may be helpful
to you if you do not find what you are looking for in
this list from Jordan School District.
www.college-scholarships.com
Financing
Your Education
This is another top-notch site that will walk you through
the process of financing college. www.wiredscholar.com/financing/content/index.jsp
The
College Board Scholarship Search
College Board (the organization that provides the SAT,
PSAT, and AP tests) has developed this site. The database
of scholarships is not as lengthy as those on other sites,
but it is a very reliable source and one worth checking
out.
http://cbweb10p.collegeboard.org/fundfinder/html/fundfind01.html
| State
and Federal Government Resources |
Federal
Student Aid Home Page
Here you will find complete information on federal programs
such as grants and loans as well as online access to the
FAFSA or Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
http://www.ed.gov/students/prep/college/thinkcollege/highschool/edlite-fedaid.html
FAFSA
This is a direct connection to the FAFSA (Free Application
for Federal Student Aid.)
www.fafsa.ed.gov
Utah
Educational Savings Plan Trust (UESP)
On this important site, parents who are looking to save
now for their children's college down the road, will find
all the information they need to take advantage of tax
breaks and low-fee incentive savings plans.
www.uesp.org
Utah
Higher Education Assistance Authority (UHEAA)
This is the right place to go for information regarding
Utah-specific scholarships and grants.
www.uheaa.org
Cook Counseling Center, Virginia Tech
This site provides a nice study skills inventory which
students can take to identify their strengths and weaknesses.
There are other helpful guides available.
www.ucc.vt.edu/stdyhlp.html
The
Homework Assistance Page
This is an excellent Web site for finding links to numerous
homework, study, career, and reference sites.
www.geocities.com/ivonebl
| Test
Preparation Resources |
The
ACT
The ACT is the college admissions exam most commonly used
by colleges and universities in the west. This site provides
a large number of helps for students who are planning
on taking the assessment. (It is also a very helpful site
for parents.)
www.act.org
College
Board
The college Board is the single best source of information
on almost all aspects of college preparation. A free,
interactive PSAT practice test is available at this site.
www.collegeboard.com/psat/student/html/indx001.html
Number
2.com
This Web site provides free test-prep programs. If you
are seeking the best free program available via the internet,
this is the one.
www.number2.com
Kaplan
Kaplan is a national leader in the test preparation arena.
At this site, you can sign up for services that range
in cost from free to over $600.
www.kaplan.com
Princeton
Review
Another national leader in test preparation programs,
Princeton Review offers a variety of services with a wide
array of costs. The site also includes college search
capabilities.
www.princetonreview.com
Triumph
Learning
This site offers various test preparation services including
what they call the "Coach Series", a computer
software program with prices in the $160 range.
www.testprep.com
The Educational Testing Service
Network (ETS)
ETS is the company that oversees the actual testing of
several national tests such as Advanced Placement. At
their Web site, you can learn more about the tests as
well as access practice tests and other test preparation
tools.
www.ets.org
| Utah
Technical Schools, Colleges and Universities |
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University,
Idaho
College of Eastern Utah
Dixie State College of
Utah
LDS Business College
Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake/Tooele Applied
Technology College
Snow College
Southern Utah University
Stevens-Henager
College
University of Utah
University of Phoenix
Utah Electronic College
Utah State University
Utah Valley State College
Weber State University
Western Governors University
Westminster
College
