*Do not limit your search, there are over 3,000 universities in the US. Take the time. Make the effort.
*You or your parents do not know how much any university will cost you until you complete all financial aid paperwork and recieve a financial aid package.
*RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH, did I say RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!1
Research majors, the campus, the library, financial aid, scholarships, everything.
My soap box ---- Lists of best colleges and top schools are only tools to the university search process. Under no circumstances eliminate a school because they are not on a 'list'.
Guide for Parents - Informatinal site is geared for parents. A lot of good information. A lot of links to other sites.
FAFSA - This site is required for all financial aid.
Fast Web - A searchable database of thousands of scholarships.
Petersons - A good geneneral information site and informatin on test preperation.
College Board - The SAT people and general information.
ACT - The ACT people and also more general information.
E Campus Tours - Tour campuses from home. The college planning section is very good.
The U - Tours of campuses in the style of MTV's Cribs.
Princeton Review - General information and college rankings. The Counselor-O-Matic tool is a very good resource to search for universities.
Yahoo! Education Directory - Everything Yahoo can dig up.
College News - Learn about the campus through their student newspaper.
To help answer these questions we will use the typological theories of Carl Jung and work on Psychological Types of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers.
Myers Briggs Information - please read the background and an overview of personality types
Jung Typology Test - find your personality type - a 72 Yes/No questions
What is your personality type? I am an INFJ.
Now that you have your personality type here is what you can do with it:
Suggested Careers using you Myers Briggs Indicators
Common Careers - this web site does a good job explaining each personality type
A good career overview web site is the Miami University (Ohio not Florida), counseling web site.
Another resource are the major university search web sites (listed above), each have a section on majors and careers.
You now have a place to start researching majors and careers.
Good luck and tell your parents 90% of a freshman change their major before leaving university.
All good American Universities will have a Counseling Office or an Office of Career Planning that will do all of this with a student in detail and 95% of the time it is free!!!
NCAA - Everything that is everything with the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse - The place to start to earn academic eligibility.
NCAA's Guide for College for College Bound Athletes
NJCAA - The Junior College route.
NAIA - National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - Smaller schools with scholarships.
Services to assist you in getting noticed:
Athletic Scholarship Connection -
Athletic Recruiters Service -
beRecruited -
College Athletic Scholarships -
Go Big Recruiting - you up load your video, they send it to the schools.
Varsity Edge -