The world’s largest college fair College Week Live is free.  I bloged about it previously and just wanted to update everyone with the 2009-2010 schedule.

- September 17, 2009: CollegeWeekLive Test Prep
- October 1, 2009: CollegeWeekLive University of California Day
- October 15, 2009: New England Day at CollegeWeekLive
- November 4 - 7, 2009: CollegeWeekLive Fall
- January 14, 2010: CollegeWeekLive Paying for College
- March 24 - 25, 2010: CollegeWeekLive Spring 

  Check it out and register for free at CollegeWeekLive.

Its Free which is good.  College Week Live claims to be the world’s largest college fair.  I don’t have a full review yet, because I just signed up, but since it’s free it really won’t hurt taking a look.  The list of schools is very extensive, so its a great resource to have and utilize when trying to decide on a college.  The schools present themselves via virtual boots and their is live video from college admission experts that offer you tips and advise on admission issues.  Check it out and register for free at CollegeWeekLive.

There was a great post at onlinesaverblog.com  about Scholarship Experts.  Scholarship Experts is an extensive free scholarship search which is a very useful free service for students.   On the topic of paying for college expenses, I wanted to introduce another great site that I have personally been registered for a few years now.   Upromise helps you save for college on your everyday purchases.  Basically you register for free and you get a small percentage back from things that you purchase from Upromise partners.  The amount it automatically stored in your Upromise account.  You can then decide to put your balance in a Tax-Free 529 plan for potential growth, receive a check for college expenses or use the funds to pay down a Sallie Mae Student loan.  Upromise has more that 600 online retailers and you get 1% - 25% back from eligible purchases.  Get up to 8% from over 8000 restaurants(inc. McDonald’s:).  Get up to 1-3% from grocery and drugstore purchases.  The Grocery and drugstore purchases is a little of a pain because you have to register a grocery store and/or drugstore card.  I would go get one, it really adds up over the years!  They list 21,000 drug and grocery store partners nationwide, so they probably have you covered.  The retail shopping is through their website, but once again all the retailers you could image are there.  For example Home Depot, Sears, Target, Travelocity and Walmart.  It would be nicer if you could submit receipts for participating partners or register a credit card, but I guess you can’t have everything.  Sign up for Upromise today and start saving for college expenses now at Upromise.

This is a unique site that I found for college students.  All I remeber was that cost of the college text books were outragous.  Its a good thing that the thousand of dollars that I spent still sit on my shelf collecting dust.  Take a look at chegg.com.  They rent text books saving you hundred of dollars per semester.  Now thats a good Idea!! 

In addition chegg.com will help the environment by planting trees for book rentals.   It even gets better for those that have already bought your college text books, go get some cash back and sell them to chegg or have them collect dust, your call.

They carry over 2 million titles.  check it out at chegg.com