States Offer Web Sites to Help Students with one-stop shop for applying to the state’s colleges and requesting financial aid.

With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning _ and that was just the beginning.

"It’s unbelievable," the Carrollton, Ga., mother said. "You don’t know where to start or what to do. It’s trial and error, at the mercy of everybody telling me what to do."

Then she heard about Georgia’s year-old Web site, http://www.gacollege411.org _ a one-stop shop for applying to the state’s colleges and requesting financial aid. Modeled after a similar site in North Carolina, Georgia’s has already registered more than 100,000 students and families in just 18 months.

By DORIE TURNER
The Associated Press

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