College Planning & Resources

This section provides a great collection of resources and links to direct students and their families to the best information and advice about planning for college, choosing a college, and paying for college, with the goal of showing that with proper preparation, college is possible for every Delaware student.

American Education Services
This website features information about planning for college, financing college, and managing student loans.

College Board
The College Board is a nonprofit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. This website offers information about college board tests, choosing a college, financing college, and planning for college.

College Savings Toolkit
This website provides information and resources to help families understand the unique language of early college investing and the range of savings options that are available. Equipped with this knowledge, families can determine the right direction for them and take that critical first step toward saving now for their children’s future.

Education Planner
Whether you are a high school student deciding on what you want to be, or a parent figuring out how to pay for college, this site will help you choose a college, prepare for college, and pay for college.

HEATH Resource Center
The HEATH Resource Center is an online clearinghouse of post-secondary education for individuals with disabilities.

Know How to Go
Know-How-To-Go is a partnership between the American Council on Education, Lumina Foundation for Education and the Ad Council, providing information for parents, mentors and students on preparing for college.

Mapping Your Future
Mapping Your Future is a national collaborative, public-service organization of the financial aid industry - bringing together the expertise of the industry to provide free college, career, financial aid, and financial literacy services for students, families, and schools.

National Association for College Admission Counseling
The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) is an organization of more than 10,000 professionals from around the world dedicated to serving students as they make choices about pursuing postsecondary education.

NCAA Eligibility Center
This site provides information on eligibility requirements for College bound student athletes.

Southern Regional Education Board’s Electronic Campus
The Electronic Campus is a comprehensive source for information about higher education opportunities and services across the South.

The Common Application
The Common Application is a not-for-profit organization that serves students and member institutions by providing an admission application - online and in print - that sutdents may submit to any of our more than 300 members.

Think College, U.S. Department of Education
A resource developed by the U.S. Department of Education aimed at helping middle school students to begin planning ahead for college.

Think College
College planning resources for students with intellectual disabilities.

University of Delaware Future Students Pre-college Programs
This website includes information on Upward Bound programs, summer programs and other pre-college programs.

White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This site provides information on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and available grants and scholarships.