College is one of the biggest expenses many people will ever have, and this completely updated guide identifies more than $2.5 billion in undergraduate scholarships, grants, and prizes to help pay for it.There is more private aid described here than in any other guide -- nearly 2,000 scholarship programs, representing 770,000 individual awards When they open the book, readers will find that they can: -- Quickly locate the specific programs that best match their background, interests, talents, or abilities-- Easily get contact information, eligibility requirements, application requirements and deadlines, dollar amount, and numbers of awardsFree-bound-in Windows/Mac CD-ROM private aid search, complete with Peterson's Universal Application and Internet Browser, allows readers to quickly narrow their search to four or five categories and print out a list of matching awards.