College Student's Guide to
Merit & Other No-Need Funding:
What the Reviewers are Saying

“An excellent resource for both prospective college students and those who will be likely to be paying for this college education, their parents…most unique." American Reference Books Annual

Selected by Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Title” of the year. Titles chosen for this list are “carefully selected from among the new publications reviewed in Choice during the preceding 12 months,” represent “less than 10 percent of the titles selected for review in Choice," and are viewed as the “best of the best.” The criteria used for selection are: “overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form, originality or uniqueness of treatment, value to undergraduate students; importance in building undergraduate library collections.” Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year

“Librarian Schlachter is well known for her scholarship guides for minorities, women, veterans, and the disabled. This new guide targets another special group: middle-class students who don’t qualify for need-based scholarships. Entries note eligibility, amount of award, duration, number of awards granted, and deadline. Recommended." Reference Books Bulletin

“Although there is no shortage of college financial aid resource books, this guide distinguishes itself in a number of ways. Schlachter, who has collaborated with Weber on several other financial aid guides, focuses on more than 1,000 programs that offer merit or no-need funding to currently enrolled college students. Furthermore, Schlachter goes beyond the typical financial aid book by providing six different indexes. No comparable guide exists. Highly recommended.” Choice

“A unique directory that exclusively features financial aid information on merit-based and other no-need awards. All awards are described in detail. RSP is well known for their scholarship guides for minorities, women, veterans, and the disabled.” Scholarship Watch

The directory “organizes its contents for easy browsing, listing programs in the sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and for any subject in sections clearly identified by a shaded section of fore edge in a stepped pattern. While the directory doesn’t guarantee an applicant success, it makes it a lot easier to narrow the field of programs to apply for. No matter how many financial aid directories a college or public library has, it needs to add this one.” Rettig on Reference

"Especially useful for undergraduates." Kansas State University's CATnet

Named an "Essential Publication" by Mount Holyoke College's Career Development Center, because the directory "provides a wide array of no-need funding programs set aside just for currently enrolled and returning college students." "Essential Publications," Career Development Center, Mount Holyoke College

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