Aid awarded through the Financial Aid Office is based primarily on financial need. The following resources at Queens College might be helpful in finding private scholarships, other merit-based grant awards, and non-work-study jobs:

• Financial Aid Office bulletin boards (Jefferson Hall, second floor hallway)
• Undergraduate Admissions Office and its website at our scholarships page for awards to entering undergraduates
• Office of Honors and Scholarships (Honors Hall, Temp 3), and its website at our scholarships page for information about nationwide scholarships and fellowships for students applying to graduate school programs
• Academic department listings of awards in the Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletins and on their websites, for awards to continuing students
• Academic departments and pre-professional advisement offices—links at http://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/
• International Student Services (Student Union room 327) and its website at http://www.qc.cuny.edu/StudentLife/services/intstudents/, for important information for students attending or planning to attend on student visas
• Office of Career Development and Internships (Frese Hall/B Building, Room 213) and its website at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/career/, for jobs not funded by the work-study program

• CUNYCAP (CUNY's Counseling Assistantship Program)—jobs for graduate students posted at http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/studentjobs/cunycap.html
• University Student Senate Scholarships—see site at http://www.uss.cuny.edu/opportunities/scholarships.htm
• NYC Housing Authority Resident Scholarships for CUNY Students [Application] [Information in English /Information in Spanish]

• Find books that list college scholarships—consult the reference section of public libraries.
• Ask if your job, union, organization (or a parent's job, union, organization) sponsor an award program.
• Try some of the free web-based scholarship searches and other web-based references for suggestions that might highlight resources for certain areas of interest or categories of students. Examples include:

          NYS Financial Aid Administrators Association
                 http://www.nysfaaa.org/docs/student_family/scholarship_searches.html
           Finaid - The SmartStudent(TM) Guide to Financial Aid
                 http://www.finaid.org/otheraid

Be alert to scholarship scams. Information about some of these scams is posted by:

• The FTC, at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/scholarship/cases.shtm
• The Better Business Bureau, at http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=311
• NASFAA, at http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2004/EAImpersonate071404.html 
  

Web Search CAUTIONS!!!

• Do not pay to get a scholarship!
• Use the same cautions you use regularly on the web. Safeguard your privacy while still supplying enough information for the scholarship search to be useful.
• If you feel uncomfortable entering personal information requested by a website, don't do it.