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The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) is a for-profit national organization established in 2002 and claims 500,000 members. Students pay an individual fee of $60 to join; fee-waivers are offered to eligible students. NSHSS is operated from a corporate office in Atlanta, Georgia and doesn’t have local chapters. Questions about NSHSS practices posed to their media representative, Yun Mi Ye, went unanswered. According to their website, NSSHS administers some scholarships provided by outside organizations that are available only to NSHH members, such as a $1,000 Griffith Scholarship and scholarships funded by the clothing store, Abercrombie and Fitch.

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Kaarme and High School Counselor Week today announced a joint venture to provide news and content for High School and College Counselors visiting the Kaarme site. The collaboration can be accessed on the Kaarme front page at HS Counselor Blog. Kaarme now brings quality news and insight to its suite of tools for connecting students and colleges. HS Counselor Blog delivers daily articles about key issues regarding high school, college search and selection, finding scholarships, and the larger educational picture.

This new offering is already being viewed by counselors as one of the few completely independent, unbiased sources of information in the college and scholarship search space.

Thanks to the support of a number of prominent scholarship organizations, students, parents, high schools, and counselors, Kaarme’s Scholarships Search and these other publicly available directories have made their way to the first page of Google’s natural search results:

     • Find Scholarships
     • Colleges With Learning Disability Programs
     • List of Catholic Colleges
     • Colleges That Offer Scholarships

A new scholarship search website helps students find scholarships without putting personal data at risk.

New York City, NY October 20, 2009 -- Kaarme.com announced the official release of its new "Catch-Free" Scholarship Search today. The free website provides information on over 100,000 scholarship opportunities without requiring students to log in or divulge any personal information.

Kaarme's Scholarship Directories Do Not Require Users To Log In.

Thank you to Rachael Beard, Anna Markowitz and Rachel Brill for organizing the recent Link Education Fall Expo on Saturday October 10th in New York City.  We connected with a number of Community Based Educational Organizations, Student Advocacy Groups and Parent Coordinators – all who were incredibly supportive of Kaarme’s mission to protect student data – while providing free and helpful tools to expand their college options and scholarship options.

Kaarme.com made a huge splash at the 2009 NACAC Conference in Baltimore, MD last week. Being a completely free site designed to present college-bound students with their full host of postsecondary opportunities, Kaarme was well received by both colleges and counselors. It seems that a lot of high schools are concerned about the legal issues associated with counselors referring their students to scholarship and college search companies that sell personal student data. Being that Kaarme is the only college and scholarship search site that doesn’t sell student data, our booth was constantly buzzing with interest and accolades.

From September 24th – 26th, The Kaarme Team will be attending the National Association of College Admissions Counselors Conference.  We look forward to sharing Kaarme with all the conference attendees.  Our booth number is #221 if you will be in Baltimore and would like to meet us. Please contact info@kaarme.com if you would like to learn more about our student recruitment tools prior to the conference. Be sure to mention this blog post and receive a free Kaarme T-Shirt.

In response to the positive feedback we have received regarding our new college directories, Kaarme has added a number of additional categories.  Our users can now browse through a number of different groupings including Historically Black Colleges, Christian Colleges, Catholic Colleges, Women’s Colleges, Jewish Colleges, Art Schools, Tuition-Free Schools, Tribal Colleges, Hispanic Colleges and Music Schools. Email suggestions@kaarme.com if there are any additional college directories you would like to see included in our college listings.

For our college and junior college users, we have created a transfer students directory with close to 2,000 links which take them directly to the section of a college’s website specifically intended for transfer students.  These helpful resources not only allow students to learn more about their options, but Kaarme users can also send their student résumé to potential schools right from these directory pages.

With the growing costs of higher education, it is critical for students to learn as much as they can about possible scholarships and financial aid.  Kaarme has unveiled the beta version of its scholarships and financial aid section which allows students to send their résumé to thousands of organizations to stand out from other scholarship applicants.  Students can also learn more about need and merit based scholarships offered by colleges around the country as they weigh their options.