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What CollegeXpress Offers You

College Search Made Easy

Discover thousands of colleges and universities tailored to your preferences. Explore programs, campus life, and admissions requirements with our intuitive search tools.

Scholarship Opportunities

Unlock a world of financial aid. Find scholarships that match your academic requirements, extracurriculars, and personal background, making college more affordable.

Leading Expert Advice

Gain an edge with our comprehensive guides on essays, recommendation letters, and interview preparation. Get tips from admissions experts and successful applicants.

Rankings That Matter

Our lists cover what matters most to you—academics, values, campus vibes, and more. Built on expert insight, real stats, and student favorites, you'll find schools that truly fit you.

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Build Your College List Fast

On CollegeXpress, you can explore schools based on what matters to you, like majors, location, campus vibes, and affordability. Save your favorites as you go, compare schools side by side, and discover hidden gems through personalized college matches and expert-curated lists. It's everything you need to stay organized and find your best-fit schools, all in one place.

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Every month, we give one lucky new student a prize to help them on their college journey just for signing up and using CollegeXpress.

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What People Say About CollegeXpress

Discover honest insights from real people. Students, parents, teachers, and experts all share what they think about us.

Lydia Huth

Lydia Huth
Student, Campbell University; CollegeXpress Student Writer

I discovered CollegeXpress while embarking on my college search journey as an excited—but scared and way confused—high schooler without a counselor or college-bound sibling to give me advice. Let me tell you, I’m so glad that I stumbled on this community! CollegeXpress helped me find potential colleges and keep application deadlines straight. It gave me a great list of scholarships, and the blogs and emails made me feel like I wasn’t going it alone. Almost three years later and with freshman year of college down, I still love the CollegeXpress vibe so much that I’m writing for them. I’d recommend this site to anyone!

Maya Ingraham

Maya Ingraham
October 2021 Mini Scholarship Winner, Class of 2022

CollegeXpress has given me more confidence in my college process. With easy-to-access resources and guidance such as the CX Weekly Roundup, I have been able to find the best colleges for me. Most importantly, there’s a surplus of scholarship opportunities for every student to support their education.

Tinuola Dada

Tinuola Dada
$2,000 Community Service Scholarship Winner, 2015

I am very excited to be this year's recipient of the Multicultural Student Community Service Scholarship. This scholarship will bring me ever closer to my academic and professional goals. CollegeXpress has been an exceptional resource to me, and I recommend it to all rising seniors as they begin to navigate the college application process.

Keaun Brown

Keaun Brown
$2,000 Community Service Scholarship Winner, 2020

As I transition to furthering my education, I can say with certainty that it simply wouldn’t be possible without the help of generous organizations such as CollegeXpress. Those who initially founded CX had no idea their platform would give a plethora of information to a first-generation homeless kid native to the ghettos of over half a dozen states. Everyone at CX and Carnegie Dartlet gave me a chance at a future when the statistics said I had none. And for that, I thank them.

Casey Kammeyer

Casey Kammeyer
$500 Refer-A-Friend Scholarship Winner

I love the site CollegeXpress; it has been very helpful finding colleges and getting them to send me information. It has also been very, very helpful with finding tons of scholarships. Also, I told many of my friends about it and they love it as well!

Carlie Cadet

Carlie Cadet
High School Class of 2019

CollegeXpress has helped me learn about an abundance of scholarships available to me and my situation. I was able to do research for colleges in my best interest with your website. I've had multiple colleges email me and offer me multiple scholarships and things of that nature because of this website! Thank you so much for uploading scholarships I didn’t even know existed, even if my life took a huge turn and I wasn’t able to go to college straight out of high school. CollegeXpress helped me a lot in high school to be even more motivated to get into my dream college (which I did, by the way). I'm looking forward to using the materials CollegeXpress has kindly provided me for free to look for scholarships to help pay for college.

Alexandra Adriano

Alexandra Adriano
$2,000 Community Service Scholarship Winner, 2016

I've used CollegeXpress quite a bit as a senior, particularly for colleges and scholarships, so it's been a very big asset in that respect! I would recommend it to anyone looking to pursue a college education, especially seniors! This scholarship will help me achieve my goals in ways I couldn't have before, and I know that there are opportunities like that for everyone on the website and in the magazines!

Kyla McClain

Kyla McClain
High School Class of 2024

I found CollegeXpress when you partnered with Bold.org for a scholarship. I found your website, put my information in, and got connected. I only wanted to stay in North Carolina [for college] and not move far from home, but you all opened a door up for me. I started researching colleges you suggested for me. On your social media platforms, you also give really good test-taking tips that I used and suggested others to do the same. It helped me a lot on my exams, so thank you.

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