The Foreign Service Journal, December 2016

82 DECEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT of targeted scholarships based on your talents, a system of scholarship deadline alerts and a cautionary section on schol- arship scams. www.fastweb.com Unigo This website was started by Jordan Goldman, a Wesleyan University gradu- ate and one of the students profiled in New York Times writer Jacques Stein- berg’s 2002 book about the college admissions process, The Gatekeepers . Unigo has grown from a review site of about 100 colleges to a huge resource for scholarships, and also offers its own scholarships as well as featuring others. www.unigo.com Scholarships A comprehensive site that cross- references scholarships by categories such as Minority Scholarships, Veteran Scholarships and Scholarships by Major. They also offer college search functions. Be sure to check out their scholarships listed by state. www.scholarships.com Cappex Cappex provides a free scholar- ship match service and helps you find scholarships from everywhere: private foundations, corporations, charities and hundreds of colleges. www.cappex.com Finaid This site explains financial aid very well. Be sure to look at their clear expla- nation about reporting outside scholar- ships to your college if you are a need- based financial aid recipient. www.finaid.org