Birmingham · AL
University of Alabama at Birmingham
3 merit scholarship options
Automatic consideration
Explore this college’s aid Financial aid & scholarships
Find more money for college.
Find colleges that offer merit scholarships and need-based grants. Match with outside scholarships based on your interests and background, then save the ones you want to apply for.
Matches on your field of study, home state, grade, affiliations, and the eligibility each scholarship publishes.
Your next step
Your next aid task
Find colleges that may cost you less.
Compare automatic merit awards, scholarships with separate applications, and need-based grants.
Examples of what a college's aid record holds. Search for a college, or choose a type of aid, to see your own.
Los Angeles · CA
University of Southern California
2 merit scholarship options
With your admission application
USC states that incoming first-year U.S. students from families earning $80,000 or less annually with typical assets can attend USC tuition free.
Explore this college’s aidPasadena · CA
California Institute of Technology
Caltech states that it meets 100% of demonstrated financial need through its financial-aid program.
Explore this college’s aidOutside scholarships
Find scholarships worth applying for
Upcoming deadlines appear first. Confirm the current deadline and eligibility on the provider’s page before applying.
Personalize your search
Which scholarships could fit you?
Start with your home state and interests. Add other details if you want a more focused search. Review each provider’s full eligibility before applying.
Work out your costs
Estimate aid and prepare for the FAFSA.
Estimate federal aid
Use family income and household details to estimate your Student Aid Index and Pell Grant.
Find your FAFSA path
See which family members need to participate and what each person needs to do.
Plan what remains
Bring savings, annual contributions, and borrowing into a college funding plan.
Savings and borrowingKeep what you find
Turn your opportunities into an aid plan.
Save scholarships, organize college forms and deadlines, and track what is ready.
Your financial aid plan
What needs attention
Do this next
Upcoming college tasks
Your saved opportunities
Scholarships to pursue
Keep the opportunities you save, their requirements, and your next actions in one place.
Explore opportunities by community, field of study, or affiliation.
Your date view
Scholarship calendar
Across the saved list
College aid map
CSS Profile, noncustodial-parent, and IDOC tasks appear only when the college is listed for the current cycle. Add each college's priority date from its financial aid page.
Federal aid
FAFSA guide
Prepare the people and documents here, then complete the official form. Never enter account credentials or Social Security numbers here. The SAI estimator below does take income and asset figures, because it cannot estimate without them; they stay in this browser and are never sent anywhere.
Set up accounts first
You cannot submit the FAFSA until every required contributor has an account and provides consent. Confirm account access before you begin the form together.
2026–27 planning tool
Start with the right FAFSA path
Step 1 of 2
People and accounts
Document checklist
Mark documents as gathered, but do not enter figures or upload documents here.
Changes save automatically
Submission path
After decisions arrive
Compare the real offers
Separate grants, work-study, and loans so you can compare what each college would actually cost per year.