Scholarship Search Engines

The following sites allow you to search for scholarships; some provide free college planning and search tools, too. 

Remember, credible scholarship searches should be free. Don’t pay for a scam search!

• Bold.org
• Big Future/College Board Scholarship Search Engine  FREE web version of the College Board's Fund Finder Scholarship database. Use this search site to input individual information about yourself for a national scholarship search. 
• College Net 
• College Planning Network College planning tools
• College Toolkit  FREE college planning tools
• Fastweb
• Finaid   Finaid has a page that tells you how to avoid Scholarship Scams.
• GEAR UP Scholarships Page
• Get College Funds Oregon student Assistance Commission  FREE
• Pell Grant Guide
• Pride Foundation  
• Sallie Mae Fund
• Scholarship Owl
• Scholarships360
• SCW DREAMers Scholarship
• Scholarships.com Database of over 600,000 scholarships.
• WashBoard Comprehensive scholarship searches for Washington state students.

Scholarship Secrets presentation from Scholarship Junkies

Tips for avoiding scams:

• Never pay money to submit a scholarship application
• If they ask for sensitive information (credit card info, mother's maiden name), it's probably a scam
• Scholarship "awards" that you didn't apply for.