Scholarships are the best way to pay for college. It’s a good idea to spend a few hours every week to search and apply for scholarship opportunities. You can find thousands of scholarships offered by large and small businesses, non-profit organizations, religious groups, schools, and also even individuals. There are national level and even local …
Why You Shouldn’t Apply To Every Scholarship You See
You know there is no limit to how many scholarship programs for college you can apply to. There is also no real limit to the amount of award money you can win. If you’re lucky you could win enough award money to pay your full college tuition. Sounds like a great way to go to …
An Underrated Scholarship Source: Your High School Counselor
Finding and applying for college scholarships is just one of the many tasks you have to complete during your junior and senior years of high school. Luckily, there are people to help! One underrated scholarship source is actually your high school counselor! While they are there to help you choose your high school courses, they’re …
7 Tips For Winning Scholarships
Spending time looking for scholarships to help pay for college is a great idea. But to maximize your efforts, you must implement tips that will help you win those hard-to-get awards. Scholarships tend to get very competitive. Sponsors receive hundreds of scholarship application letters for every scholarship opportunity and they can afford to be very …
Why You Should Write Scholarship Thank You Letters
Scholarships play a key role in helping students reduce their overall debt while working towards achieving their academic goals. Students understand the importance of scholarships and work hard looking for and applying to opportunities to win some free money. Unfortunately, many award recipients fail to write a scholarship thank you letter to their benefactor. With …
Do’s And Don’ts: Searching For Scholarships
Scholarships are a fantastic source of free money to help pay for college. So how do scholarships work? Understanding is the key to making the most of the many scholarship opportunities available. How Do Scholarships Work? Scholarships are financial aid awards offered by different organizations to help students fund their college education. These organizations range from …
How Small Scholarships Can Add Up
Applying to scholarships can be a time-consuming task. You have to first search for opportunities that you qualify for and then put together a customized application that meets all the specifications. When you consider the time and trouble that it takes to put it all together, you may wonder whether it is worth it at …
Chatting with Scholarship Winner Brennan Ryan!
I had the chance to chat with our most recent $2,500 scholarship winner—Brennan Ryan—about his college journey, search process, and the advice he’d give to young college-bound students! Here’s what he had to say: Tell us a little about yourself! My name is Brennan Ryan. I’m currently in my fourth year of a five-year program …
How to Take the Stress Out of the Scholarship Search
During your senior year of high school, you’re already under a ton of stress. Between classes and college applications and maybe even a job, you have a lot going on. Add on the scholarship search and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, there are ways to take the stress out of the scholarship search. Try …
How To Set Scholarship Goals
Looking for and applying to scholarships is hard work and can take up a lot of your time. While the time you spend and the effort you put in towards scholarships may be well worth it, you cannot afford to neglect everything else. You still need to keep time for completing your high school assignments, …