How to Find Out About Financial Aid, 1996/98 A Guide to over 700 Directories Listing Scholarships, Fellowships, Loan Grants, Awards Internships

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A record $37 billion in financial aid is currently available to undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers. Yet, according to the National Scholarship Research Service. more than 87 billion in scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans goes unclaimed each year because financial aid seekers do not know how to find out about these programs.Now, help is here. With this edition of How to Find Out about Financial Aid, you can identify, describe, evaluate, and compare the more than 400 directories that provide current information on financial aid opportunities. Nearly half of the directories listed here may be acquired for less than $15, and most of those are free!Use this guide to 1) identify standard sources and "best buys; " 2) find out which sources to skip; 3) trace publication histories and tricky name changes; 4) get complete bibliographic information (including LC numbers, ISBNs, and ISSNs); 5) find the address and telephone numbers (including toll-free numbers) of the nearly 300 publishers represented in the guide; and 6) check out the latest price for each directory.The guide's special classification and indexing system enables users to search for particular types of aid (scholarships, grants, internships, etc.) by subject area, geographic coverage, special needs groups, and publisher. Never again will librarians, financial aid officers, counselors, students, or researchers overlook valuable sources of funding because they didn't know where to look. How to Find Out about Financial Aid will point them in the right direction.