Summary: Peterson's® How to Get Money for College 2019 is a great resource for students looking to supplement their federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points students and their families to complete and accurate information on need-based and non-need gift aid, loans, work-study, athletic awards, and more. The easy-to-use...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2018

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Chany, Kalman A.

Summary: "Financing a college education is a daunting task no matter what your circumstances. With line-by-line instructions for filling out the FAFSA and consumer-friendly advice to minimize college costs, Paying for College helps you take control of your experience and: Maximize your financial aid eligibility ; Learn how COVID-19 and the latest tax laws affect the financing of your college education ;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Review 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.38 CHA

Summary: This directory contains information on financial opportunities for college including federal grants, work-study programs, need-based and non-need-based gift aid, and athletic awards from more than 2,500 four-year colleges.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.3 PET

Tanabe, Gen S.

Summary: "The goal of The Ultimate Scholarship Book is simple: To help you find free money. Inside you'll find the most up-to-date and comprehensive listing of more than 1.5 million awards. An easy-to-use index makes finding the right scholarships ridiculously quick. And it wouldn't be the Ultimate book without insider strategies on how to win the scholarships you find!"--Page [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: SuperCollege, LLC 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.34 TAN

Summary: This book provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories that are available from such private sources as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2019

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Tanabe, Gen

Summary: "Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory with more than 300 new listings that feature awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more."

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Publisher / Publication Date: SuperCollege 2024

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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378.34 TAN

Summary: Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IVO

Ellis, Kristina.

Summary: On the first day of high school, Kristina Ellis's mom, a single, working mother who lost her husband to cancer, informed her that she could not financially support her after graduation. Kristina would need to find her own way to pay for college. As an average student with less-than-impressive test scores, Kristina realized she would have to sell herself to scholarship committees if she wanted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.34 ELL

Lieber, Ron

Summary: A guide to assist families with making critical decisions about what to pay for college discusses the complex financial aid system, how to determine good value, and setting financial goals while figuring out how to save, borrow, and bargain for a better deal.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 378.106 LIE

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Tanabe, Gen S.

Summary: Newly revised, this 14th edition of the #1 selling scholarship guide serves as a directory of more than 1.5 million scholarships, grants and prizes that can be used at any college.

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Publisher / Publication Date: SuperCollege, LLC 2021

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Tanabe, Gen S.

Summary: This guide to financing higher education is the only resource students need to fund their pursuit of knowledge. Balancing detailed explanations with real-life examples and practical resources, the featured topics include finding and winning scholarships, requesting a reassessment from colleges for more financial aid, maximizing assistance from state and federal governments, taking advantage of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.3 TAN

Summary: Peterson's® Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2019 provides up-to-date information on more than 1.6 million privately funded awards worth over 10 billion dollars available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories that are available from private...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2018

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Mettler, Suzanne.

Summary: "America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 MET

Kim, Hyun Sook

Summary: "The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KIM