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 - 2nd floor hallway)
• Undergraduate Admissions Office and their website at http://www.qc.edu/admissions/scholarships.php for awards to entering undergraduate students
• Graduate Admissions Office and their website at http://www.qc.edu/gadm/awards.htm for awards to graduate students.
• Office of Honors and Scholarships  (Honors Center / Temp 2), and their website at http://www.qc.edu/scholar/index.html; the office is also an important resource for nationwide scholarships and fellowships for students applying to graduate school programs.
• Academic department listings of their awards in the Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletins and on their websites.  Many of these are prizes awarded at graduation, but some are awards to continuing students.
• Academic departments and pre-professional advisement offices - see links at http://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/
• International Student Services(Frese Hall / B Building - Room 211) and their website at http://www.qc.cuny.edu/student_affairs/international_students.php 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 their website at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/career/  for jobs not funded by the work-study program.

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

• Find books that list college scholarships  --- go to the reference section of public libraries for these.
• Does your job, union, organization (or a parent's job, union, organization) sponsor an award program?
• Try some of the free web-based scholarship searches.
• Use other web-based references for suggestions that might highlight resources for certain areas of interest or categories of students.
   

• see the FTC site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/scholarship/index.html
• the Better Business Bureau site at http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=311
• NASFAA's site at http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2004/EAImpersonate071404.html .
  
  Web Search CAUTIONS!!!
• Do not pay to get a scholarship!
• There are scholarship scams.  For more information:  see the FTC site at  http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/scholarship/index.html and the Better Business Bureau site at http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=311 .
• Use the same cautions you use regularly on the web.  Safeguard your privacy while still giving enough information for the scholarship search to be useful.
• If you don't feel comfortable entering personal information requested by a website, don't do it.

Free Web-based Scholarship Searches and Additional Scholarship Resources
            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