In an all-new second annual edition, this survey guide of 2,800 college funding programs now includes the award-winning Fund Finder search program on CD-ROM for Windows.
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Show me the money! Fund Finder CD-ROM opens to a Personal Profile screen. Since many awards are tied to a specific level of study, the first question users must answer is for which level of study they plan to use the award: college freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, undergraduate certificate master's, doctoral, postgraduate, graduate certificate, first professional, nondegree. Then users select from the types of awards available: scholarship/grants, loans/loan forgiveness, research grants/stipends, internships, awards based on competition (ranging from engineering/architecture to music performance, research paper, or science project). Further personal criteria may be selected from a bevy of search options: minority/national heritage, majors/careers, religious affiliation, military, disability/other physical condition, employment/membership, and study abroad. Maneuvering through the Fund Finder database is easily handled with jargon-free text and icons. A completed search brings up a split screen with your profile criteria and the names of award programs. The "number of matches on your list," "print," "quit," and "help" buttons are within easy reach at the bottom of the screen, along with the option to "Return to Search" to modify the search criteria. While it is possible (difficult and cumbersome) to compile a list of programs using the 70 indexes in the print source, Fund Finder quickly searches the more than one million award possibilities and produces a list of awards for which your personal profile characteristics match the eligibility requirements. From there, you can consult the book for in-depth information or use the Web Link button to connect to the funding program's web page. No other scholarship/grant database we've seen searches with as many personal profile characteristics. Bundled with the disc, The Scholarship Handbook provides authoritative information about 3300 private, federal, and state scholarship, internship, and loan programs for undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies. Scholarship descriptions are based on information supplied by the 1200 program sponsors throughout the United States in response to the College Board's Annual Survey of Financial Aid Programs 1998-99. The survey was completed in spring 1998, and the information was reviewed and verified by a staff of College Board editors. The Bottom Line: Time is money: Fund Finder saves the former and locates the latter. A highly recommended resource for academic, public, and special libraries and for home use. Students will do well to use both of these College Board resources.AChristine Oka, Bibliographic Svcs., Northeastern Univ., Boston
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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