We found ScholarshipExperts.com to be a very good website for searching for college funding opportunities. A site designed with the student and their parents in mind, it provides a solid database of information and links for applications.

• Student loan search and links to source and application.
• Forbes.com has placed the site on their “Best of the Web” list since 2003.
• Database of 2.4 million scholarships worth $14 billion.

An extensive personal profile of the student will yield tailored search results. The profile takes about 15 minutes to complete but it is very user friendly and painless. Pages load quickly and advertising is not too annoying. It’s a free site and they have to have some way of paying for it! Just click “not interested” and be on your way. The advertising on other similar sites is definitely more intrusive than what we found on ScholarshipExperts.com.

This site has an excellent student loan search in addition to its comprehensive scholarship search and you can narrow your results by lender type, interest rate and more. When you receive your list of results, you will find a link with each for submitting an application and you can organize it all with the e-organizer provided to members. It's definitely a comprehensive resource for students with scholarship or student loan needs! They earn 6.0 Stars!

Looking for scholarships and financial aid for college is often a time-consuming process for parents and students alike. The scholarship search sites available on the Web have become a great time saver. BrokeScholar.com is one such site. It is simple and easy to use and the pages load quickly.

• 650,000 scholarship listings.
• Monthly email notifying member of matching scholarships.
• Deadline alerts and calendars.

When you visit the site you'll be asked to fill out a 10 or 15 minute personal profile prior to undertaking a scholarship search. This, however, is very easy to do and you won't run into annoying advertising.

After completing a profile you will receive a list of scholarships that should be appropriate to your needs. The listing provides detailed information on the scholarship and who provides it as well as an option to request an application. You can save your search results for future reference or delete an item from the list if it does not suit your needs. A calendar reminds you when applications are due and you can sign up to receive monthly emails to alert you to new scholarships and deadlines.

While we found that the site was very easy to use and offered decent scholarship search results, it is a bit lacking in other features.  Many similar sites have college, career, and job searches too. If, however, you strictly want scholarship info this is definitely a place worth visiting. They earn 5.0 Stars!

If you are a parent or student looking for scholarship options, FastWeb is one place you should consider looking. We did find our experience with the site to be a bit challenging. It is a free web site and an extensive profile questionnaire will give you personalized search results. However, there is an abundance of advertising that requires too much time and attention for comfortable browsing. If you are not careful you will end up with unwanted email from these advertisers.

• Free personalized scholarship search for students and parents.
• Find internships and jobs.
• 1.3 million scholarships worth over $3 billion.

If you don't mind navigating the ads, however, the site can provide some very helpful scholarship information. After completing your profile you will receive a list of scholarships that include the name of the scholarship, the amount, the deadline, the type, the specific college (if applicable) and a place to make notes. A link is provided for more information and another link to the scholarship website.

You can save the scholarship to a homepage, print the information or delete it from your list. If you add it to your favorites it will be saved to your homepage and the deadline date will appear on a calendar on your homepage. We loved the calendar feature for keeping on top of deadlines.

College, internship and job searches are also available based on your profile. The college search results yields excellent fact sheets for each school and links to the school’s website, admissions office and financial aid office. The internship and job searches also provide further links for application and information.

All in all, the site does provide very helpful scholarship information – you just have to jump through some hoops to get to it. They earn 5.0 Stars!

Looking for a way to pay for college is a task that most college bound students and their parents undertake. The Internet now provides search sites to assist in this time consuming task. FindTuition.com claims to provide such a service but our visit was a disaster. We recommend you move onto other better functioning websites and not waste your time here.

• Continuously updated and verified information.
• $1.7 million in scholarships and grants worth more than $7 billion.
• Student loan search.

When we first arrived on the site it appeared to be set up and laid out to be very user friendly and we expected it to offer much the same in terms of service that other similar sites offer. We began our visit by attempting to register and fill out the questionnaire that is usually used to narrow down scholarship search results.

Throughout the registration process we encountered ads from for profit educational and non-educational sources that required us to accept or decline to continue registering. It took about 10 minutes to get to the last section and at that point we ran into a video ad that we could not bypass. It made us wonder if the site was set up to end there thus drawing students to the video site.

Whatever the reason for the ad, we could not complete our registration or follow through on the search venue. We were able to send a feedback email but have not as yet received a response. We give them 3.5 Stars!