College and University Information Sites - Comprehensive resources on colleges across the United States.

Collegeboard.com
- A helpful resource for SATs, including college and financial aid resources.

Embark.com - An excellent resource with useful links including on-line college application completion.

College Xpress - Another helpful site, with financial aid information and on-line college application completion.

CollegeView - Yet another excellent college resource with college profiles, career planning, and virtual tours!

O*Net Online
Making occupational information interactive.

NY Mentor Web Site
Provides the best college and career exploration services coupled with planning features to help students with the admission process.

Education.org
Serves students, parents and counselors with quality and convenient education information. Simply click on the type of college you are looking for: art school, medical or nursing school, cooking school, business school or all schools and you will be able to research them state by state.

EDURegistry.org
An excellent site for: college search, admissions, and financial aid information - plus easy links to hundreds of colleges across the country.

FastWeb Student Bulletins
An excellent site for Student Bulletins about: College Admissions, Financial Aid, Scolarships

Choices Planner-
The Work tab allows you to check out career profiles and zones as well as personal assessments. Use the Learn button to find post-secondary schools, programs, financial aid and course planning.

Choices Explorer-
Select the Work tab to start thinking about your future by finding some careers that interest you. Selecting Learn will help you explore majors for college.

TEST GEAR College Newsletter
Welcome to the latest edition of testGEAR's Going to College newsletter!

View the newsletter online at: http://www.bridges.com/subscribe/gtc/2008/may/email.htm or click on the TEST GEAR College Newsletter title listed above.

For those of you who were testGEAR subscribers last year, you may remember receiving monthly product usage newsletters (Dear Bridget), which offered tips on how to get the best use out of your testGEAR test prep courses.

However, as we all know testGEAR is a very intuitive, self-directed product, so we decided that perhaps another type of newsletter might be more beneficial.

At the end of the last school year we asked our readers to take a vote on whether they'd prefer a "getting ready for college" type newsletter for college-bound students.

The results were overwhelmingly in favor to switch to something more student-facing. So this year, we're giving you exactly what you asked for with testGEAR's Going to College newsletter for students.

Forward this newsletter on to your students, or use the "Printable Version" icon to print it out and post it up in your classroom or career center. You can even encourage your students or other educators to sign up for it themselves at www.bridges.com/subscribe.

We hope you enjoy testGEAR's Going to College newsletter and have a great year using testGEAR in your school!

We will continue to assemble reources found on the Internet for our students and parents to use.

If you would like to suggest a new link, please send an email to guidance@wgmail.cnyric.org.