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Free Tools to Help Students Prepare for College
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• Students get matched to scholarships, colleges, internships, part-time jobs and more.
• With 1.3 million scholarships worth over $3 billion, FastWeb is a comprehensive source for scholarships.
• Students get a customized experience and tools to stay organized.
• FastWeb has recently been optimized to ensure students match more opportunities than ever!
• It’s all FREE!
How does it work?
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To start a new search, students click here.
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Students who have already completed a search, log in here to revisit their results.
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• Students can search for scholarships, colleges or both.
• FastWeb adapts to students as they complete their search.
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Student Profile
Students are asked various questions based on award provider and college criteria (including GPA, student activities, parent information, etc.)
Students are then given custom results based on their answers.
What are the results?
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Custom Results
FastWeb provides students with a custom list of scholarships, colleges, local jobs and internships, all with one profile.
After completing the questions, students can find their results by clicking on any of these tabs.
Custom Results
Certain features follow students through their results.
The message box highlights new and important opportunities.
Headlines show timely articles based on the student’s year in school and the time of year.
Profile Summary reminds students to check and update their information.
Scholarship Search Results
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Scholarship Search Results
Students can sort their results by any column heading to help them manage their results.
Scholarship Search Results
To help student manage their results, they can mark opportunities as “favorites” and “discards”
Favorites are indicated by the heart icon and are added to a list in the “Favorites” tab.
Discarded awards are removed from the main list and moved to the “Discards” tab.
Scholarship Search Results
One way to mark “Favorites” and “Discards” is to click the check box in the status column and then click the appropriate button.
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Scholarship Search Results
For example a student can remove essay contests by sorting the award type, marking those awards and clicking the appropriate boxes.
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Scholarship Details
When a student clicks a scholarship description, scholarship details appear. This includes the award description, Web site and more.
Scholarship Details
Students can also mark “Favorites” and “Discards” on the scholarship description page.
Scholarship Details
Students can set a personal note for themselves.
Scholarship Details
When adding a note, students can schedule it to be emailed to their personal account on a set day.
College Search Results
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College Search Results
Students can sort their results by any column heading to help them manage their results.
College Search Results
The “Distance” heading indicates how many miles the school is from the home address.
College Search Results
The “Scholarship” column is a personal scholarship search for every college in the college results.
College Details
When a students clicks a college from their results, they see a detailed description of the college, including scholarships they matched at that school.
College Compare
Students can compare colleges and their own profile side by side.
(This can also help determine why certain colleges did not appear in their college search results.)
Internship and Part-time jobs Results
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Job and Internship Results
Internship and part-time job results are automatically matched to students when they complete any search.
• Part time jobs matches are based proximity to student’s home address.• Internships are based on student’s major and interest.
My FastWeb
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My FastWeb
The “My FastWeb” section lets students manage all of their opportunities in one place.
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Scholarship deadlines
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College deadlines
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Internship and part-time job deadlines
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Students also have a custom to-do list based on their year in school and current time of year.
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They can view all of their favorite scholarships, colleges, jobs and internships in the “My Favorites” tab.
Other Benefits
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Resources
FastWeb has hundreds of articles about nearly everything having to do with preparing for college and being in college.
FastWeb Article
This is an article.From here students can mark it as a favorite, email an article or set a note.
FastWeb Email
In addition to the online results, students also receive email updates of new awards, email deadline reminders and custom newsletters.
Tips for Students
• Maximize Matches • Complete all the questions on the search• Review all possible answers for each question
• Check your current information regularly to ensure your results match you.
• Have you changed majors or intended school?• Is your current year in school updated?
FastWeb gives students resources that are:
• Updated and accurate• Full-time research staff updates and adds awards every
day
• Proprietary database built over 10 years
• Customized to students
• Easy to use
• Free
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