College Exploration on the Internet: A Student and Counselor's Guide to More Than 685 Websites

High school students planning to go to college cite the Internet as the second most important resource available to them, after their guidance counselors, according to a survey by the Art & Science Group.
The Internet has had a profound effect on the way we do business, gather information, and communicate with one other. Consider the Web's groundbreaking impact on college exploration. Less than 15 years ago, high school students had to research and plan for college via snail mail, telephone calls to college officials, or through costly and time-consuming campus visits.
Today, students can use the Internet to find information about almost any college-related topic imaginable. They can use the Web to help choose a major; research admissions requirements; apply for scholarships; and tour colleges via online videos, photographs, and audio recordings. There are websites that feature student reviews of professors and schools that are brutally honest in their assessment. Students can even use the Web to apply to college! In short, there are literally thousands of college-related websites on the Web. Unfortunately, quantity doesn't always mean quality. Many college websites are merely advertisements for fee-based services or offer information that is outdated or too vague to be of use to students and educators.
To provide you with the most useful college resources on the Web, we have visited more than 2,000 websites to create College Exploration on the Internet: A Student and Counselor's Guide to More Than 685 Websites.
Using this book will help you save time, money, and avoid dated or incorrect information. The 685+ Web resources presented in College Exploration on the Internet are the most useful websites available today. They provide information on College admissions, Choosing a major, Campus visits, U.S. and Canadian college search tools, Scholarships, grants, loans, and other financial aid, Minority resources, Community colleges, Students with disabilities, Women's issues, Distance and online education, Internships, Study abroad opportunities, Religious colleges, Graduate school, Campus crime, alcohol abuse, and depression, Professor reviews, Accreditation, Fraternities and sororities, and Other postsecondary options including apprenticeships and military training.
College Exploration on the Internet has two main sections: College Resource Websites and Association Web Resources. The Quick Guide to Resources serves as a type of extended Table of Contents that will help you locate websites and resources on more than 145 college-related topics. This book also features a list of national and state associations for counselors, a list of state financial aid and college planning associations and websites, a glossary, a list of financial aid abbreviations, and career title and website indexes.