Community service not only helps your community, but it helps you too. Scholarship sponsors look forward to rewarding students who are active in their communities in any capacity. Their main goal is to offer financial support to students who are active in their communities and schools. These students are more likely to come back to …
Scholarship Search & Applications
5 Qualities That Scholarship Winners Have
Winning a scholarship is not easy. Regardless of the type of scholarship you are applying for, you are sure to be up against some stiff competition. Scholarships are the single best way to get some free money for college and every opportunity out there attracts hundreds if not thousands of applications. So what exactly are …
Scholarship Tip: Get to Know the Sponsor
You are sure to have come across many tips and tricks for winning scholarships, but one tip that most students tend to overlook is getting to know the scholarship sponsor. It’s not surprising that sponsors will favor students who have taken the time and trouble to get to know everything about their organization and what …
A Neat Tip to Help with Your Scholarship Essays: Record Your Voice
For many students, the worst part about applying for scholarships is writing the essay. In fact, it can be enough of a deterrent to turn students off from applying entirely. There are a number of ways to make writing an essay easier—outlining, using humor, picking an engaging topic, etc.—but here’s another one for you: record …
How Volunteering Increases Your Chances Of Winning A Scholarship
Organizations award scholarships based on varied criteria, ranging from the most straightforward criteria such as academic excellence, to the most unusual criteria such as the ability to speak Klingon or making the most creative PBJ sandwich. But one criterion that is common in almost all scholarships is community involvement in the form of volunteering. Volunteering …
How to Use Your Summer Break to Search for Scholarships
Summer is a time to relax, reflect, and reinvigorate your mind, but just because you’re on a break it doesn’t mean you can’t still begin searching for scholarships. Considering the amount of free money you could very well get by way of scholarships, it is well worth setting aside some time every week to look …
An Underutilized Scholarship Resource: Your High School Counselor
You’ve scoured the internet, local newspapers and community notice boards in your search for scholarships, but have you thought of getting help from your high school counselor? High school counselors have vast experience with helping students in a variety of ways, from offering advice on how to be better prepared for the upcoming exams to …
Why You Should Apply to Scholarships Regularly
Scholarships are, without a doubt, the ideal way to pay for college. Even with all the hype they get, however, there’s still a few misconceptions that surround scholarships. Some think that scholarships are only for graduating high school seniors (they’re not), some think you only apply for scholarships the summer before school (nope), and other …
How To Network For Scholarship Opportunities: 3 Easy Ideas
While the internet is a great resource for researching scholarship opportunities, it is certainly not the only one. There are several scholarships that are not listed online for several reasons. It could be that they are open only to an organization’s employees and their dependents or to members of a local community. The only way …
What Scholarship Sponsors Look For In An Application
If you are headed off to college this fall, you should be spending time looking for scholarships and applying to those that you qualify for. If you haven’t started your search yet, it’s time you did. Winning scholarships is the best way to get some free money towards college. The Ideal Scholarship Application While every …
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