Whether you have a child planning for, currently attending, or graduating from college, College Zone can help you help them.

Click on the appropriate link (at left) to identify your child’s current grade or experience level.

Parent Message Board

The Parent Message Board is updated each week. New messages for the week are identified by the  symbol. Items under the More section, located toward the bottom of the page, provide links to information on topics that were recently listed on this Message Board.

 To learn about the financial aid process from the convenience of your computer, check out the narrated Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation entitled "The Financial Aid Process: Paying for College 2008-09," which can be accessed via the Student Quick Links menu of the Student Zone front page.

If you currently have or will have a son or daughter in college, you should know about a recently-updated publication from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) - Cash for College - which answers questions regarding how to obtain the resources that are available to help finance an education.

If your son or daughter is a student who plans to attend college during the 2009-10 academic year, now is the time to search for scholarships to help fund their education. As you search, beware of financial aid "scams."

Now is a good time for high school seniors planning to start college in the fall of 2009, and their parents, to apply for a Personal Identification Number (PIN) to be used in January when completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

More

U.S. Department of Education's Federal Aid First

List of ISAC's Participating Lenders

State & Federal Aid Estimator

Federal Student Aid's FAFSA4caster