Edvisors Site Review http://www.edvisors.com or http://www.edvisors.com/scholarships/ Edvisors is a student marketing company operating a network of websites providing information, tools, and resources for students. Their portfolio of websites includes a lot of sites focused on student loans, not scholarships. We clicked on the About link and landed on the Edvisors’ Student Marketing page. Under the […]
Read MoreCollegiateFunding: A Whole Lotta Information Sharing for Very Little Payoff http://www.collegiatefunding.com The company profile for CollegiateFunding is another self-congratulatory couple of paragraphs about how they help students find colleges and ways to pay for it. But nothing else about who they are, or even how to contact them. We found virtually nothing on the Net […]
Read MoreWe Took CollegeXpress for a Test Drive http://www.collegexpress.com CollegeXpress is run by Carnegie Communications, an educational publisher that also operates other websites: PrivateColleges.com, CareersandColleges.com, ACUInfo.com, SummerProgramSearch.com, and PrivateSchoolSearch.com. Carnegie Communications also owns Wintergreen Orchard House, which is a “major database compiler, provider, and publisher, specializing in the Private K-12, two- and four-year college, summer program, […]
Read MoreCollegeScholarships.com: Is It Worth A Visit? http://www.collegescholarships.com CollegeScholarships.com is run by College Connection, founded in 1995 by a group of parents who, after going through the college financial aid process with their own kids, felt there was a need for improvement in the process. Their About Us statement indicates that they use one of the […]
Read MoreCollegeNET/Mach 25 Scholarship Search Site Review http://www.collegenet.com/mach25/app CollegeNET, Inc., founded in 1977, is a developer of web technology for higher education and nonprofit institutions. Not much other information is available about the owners of this site either on the Net or on the site. The CollegeNET site itself provides ways to search for colleges, apply […]
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