What if you could get a guaranteed tuition scholarship at any public college in your state, just by attending school and keeping your GPA above a 2.0?
For some students, this fantasy is becoming a reality thanks to community outreach scholarships.
I Got a Scholarship (in Kalamazoo)
Three years ago the community of Kalamazoo, Michigan began offering the [...]
Who doesn’t want to find free money for college? Private scholarships can be one of your best bets when it comes to funds you don’t have to pay back-but do you know when and how to search them out?
What Do You Mean by “Early”?
Did you know that your fourth-grader could already be adding scholarship [...]
Private scholarships are generally much easier to win if the competition pool is small. That’s why I often advise students to search out local scholarships—they automatically have a smaller group of eligible applicants than do national scholarship competitions.
However, another way to narrow down your odds is to find quirky scholarships. Most scholarship search [...]
For a while it seemed that affluent or the lower income could “afford” a high-quality education at an elite college—the affluent because they have the funds to pay, the lower income because they could count on more financial aid. The middle-income families, however, seemed left to fend for themselves.
Happily, Harvard announced a plan last week [...]
A while ago I posted some information on three common scholarship scams—ways that parents and students are victimized by fraudulent scholarship offers. Today I want to offer you six tips about how to catch scholarship scams before you waste your time and money. The following is a list of phrases and terms that the both [...]
Before you or your student start applying for scholarships and financial aid, you absolutely need to know how to spot a scam. As parents have become more and more concerned about finding additional funding to help cover college costs, scam artists have begun to take advantage of this justifiable worry.
Recent reports on websites like CNN [...]
