Next to federal or state financial aid, scholarships offer a helpful way to defray or cover the cost of a college education.
A number of Web sites offer useful tools that can help you track down scholarship opportunities and answer scholarship-related questions.
Here are a few worth visiting:
Collegeboard.com
cbweb10p.collegeboard.org/fundfinder/html/fundfind01.html
Features an online questionnaire that matches information with specific scholarship opportunities.
CollegeLink
www.collegelink.com/clnk/scholarship/
Browse scholarships by academic field.
FastWeb
www.fastweb.com
Provides details on more than 60,000 scholarships.
Scholarships.com
www.scholarships.com
Contains a scholarship search and insights on a variety of scholarship-related topics.
Scholarship Resource Network Express
www.srnexpress.com/schfaq.htm
Useful questions and answers on how to research and find scholarships.