Scholarship Information

The Mountain Vista High School Counseling Department is a comprehensive guidance and counseling program facilitating student growth in academics, career, and personal / social development. We are committed to serving and supporting students, families, and staff through listening, problem-solving, informing, guiding, nurturing, for the purpose of inspiring all toward extraordinary efforts.

Where To Start

Office Hours: 7:00 AM to 3:15 PM

How To See A Counselor

~Students - Counselors have sign-up sheets on a clipboard that hangs next to their door. Sign-up in the time slot you want to see your counselor. Mrs. Neely will give you a pass to return on the day of your appointment.
~Parents - Please call 303-387-1526 to make an appointment or to speak with your student's counselor.

Sites	Descriptions
College Scholarships.com	While this commercial site promises to build a personalized list of scholarships that fit a student, it also includes regularly updated scholarship information that is available to anyone who visits the site.
Engineering Scholarships	Part of a comprehensive site on engineering career information.
FastAid	Large, free online scholarship data base also financial aid information.
Fast Web	Very comprehensive site contains a database of over 600,000 scholarships and is growing all the time. Complete a questionnaire and Fast Web will give you a list of scholarships for which you are eligible. Some scholarship applications are available on line. Fast Web will also notify you if additional scholarships are added to its data base that are a match for you.
Free Scholarship Search	While this data base was created for students who attend UCLA, students attending any college would find useful leads at this site.
GeoScholarships	Free scholarship search site also has links to other financial aid information.
Guaranteed Scholarships	This comprehensive site lists scholarships that are unlimited in number, and require no interview, essay, portfolio, audition competition of other "secondary" requirements. The scholarships are listed by college. This site would be especially useful to valedictorians and other students with outstanding qualifications.
Hispanic Fund	This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students and universities who participate in the Hispanic Fund scholarship program.
Hope Scholarship	Information about this new (1997) scholarship provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Scholarship News	Scholarships organized into the following categories: religion, athletics, college major, state of residence, minorities, and handicaps.
The Scholarship Page	Produced by a single person who mounts scholarship information as she finds it. Not a large database, but a good one organized by categories.
Scholarship Scams	Site run by the Federal Trade Commission that helps students and parents avoid unethical scholarship data base providers.
Scholarships.com	Free college scholarship search uses a personalized profile that will match your specific skills, talents, interests, and abilities to the Scholarships.com database of over 600,000 college scholarship awards. Your results will be delivered to you immediately, on-line!
Society of Women Engineers	The Society of Women Engineers administers over 100 individual scholarship awards annually, varying in amount from $1000 to $5000 per year and totaling more than $200,000.