The number one question I receive from parents is: Where can my college-bound teen find scholarships? The best place to begin is at these sites and then expand the search to fit your individual student. Follow the trails that the matches give you and search locally as well.

1. Cappex.com–A site created for students to help them simplify their college search, create a profile and search for scholarships.

2. MeritAid.com–The place to go to find merit scholarships and academic scholarships from colleges across the country.

3. Scholarships.com–An extensive scholarship search engine that helps you search and schedule alerts for deadlines.

4. Fastweb.com–An extensive scholarship search website with a massive database of scholarships, along with articles and helps designed specifically for parents.

5. Zinch.com–A free service for students and parents where students can showcase themselves, connect with colleges, and search for scholarships.

6. FastAid.com is the world’s largest and oldest Private-Sector Scholarships, Graduate Scholarships, Worldwide Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants and Free Undergraduate College Scholarship database.

7. SuperCollege is a free database of over 2.2 million college scholarships, grants, fellowships and contests worth more than $15 billion.

8. Broke Scholar is the home of over 850,000 scholarship award listings to help you locate third party scholarships and grant money.

9. ScholarshipExperts has been helping parents and students find scholarships and free college money since 2001 with an updated database of college scholarships and grad school scholarships to provide accurate and timely scholarship information.

10. Xap provides a scholarship search capacity where students can search by name or by profile matching.