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October 23, 2006: CollegeToolkit

CollegeToolkit

CollegeToolkit claims it goes beyond traditional scholarship search sites to provide students with superior search capabilities and direct access to online scholarship applications.

College Toolkit is a valuable resource for everyone involved in the scholarship process, featuring an extensive database of scholarship opportunities for students to search.

While the site offers something to students, scholarship-granting organizations, and school counselors, students are the primary focus. College Toolkit, has developed a comprehensive resource to help students with all the major decisions that come with going to college, including picking a school, financing education, searching for scholarships and exploring career options.

Calling itself a "one-stop resource for college information," CollegeTooklit helps students find scholarships and offers more than a dozen ways to search its scholarship, college, and career databases. Students can save search results in their "briefcase" areas.

The site's interactive calculators help students get answers relevant to individual circumstances, and informative guides offer insight from experts on topics ranging from planning college visits to saving for college to avoiding scholarship scams.

Everything on the site is offered to students at no cost.

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