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The great news is that there is no limit to the rankings, articles and a textbook store. When it COLLEGENET.COM
amount of scholarships a student can obtain. comes to scholarships, the site offers both profile- “You can search by keyword or create a
Students can begin applying to scholarships as based matching as well as easy-to-browse personalized profile to get filtered results. From
early as Kindergarten. You can find scholarships for categories.” there, you can create, manage and save lists that
Navigating the students under 13 on the finaid.org website. Please FASTWEB you can return to later.’
beware of scholarship scams. My family was a
victim of these scams and we paid for access to a “Fastweb, a subsidiary of Monster, hosts more than SCHOLARSHIP MONKEY
Scholarship scholarship database and it should never cost 1.5 million scholarships that amount to more than “Scholarship Monkey offers three search options:
money to apply to a scholarship. READ the user
$3.4 billion dollars. And it's all so well organized!
agreement as I have heard that a couple sites which The search platform's filters make it hard not to find personalized search, search by keyword and lists of
scholarships. Results from any of these searches
I will not name re-sells student's personal
Landscape information to third parties and the students are exactly what you're looking for.” can then be further filtered by college, but
unfortunately not by any other criteria.”
spammed afterwards.
CAPPEX
by Mia Bradford “Cappex has a large scholarship database and
When students apply to the university, they may be
automatically considered for awards directly from they're not afraid to brag a bit: "We've Got More
Than $11 Billion in Scholarships."
the school. However, they can obtain scholarships
from many sources. Although it is great to have
students apply for the larger scholarships like Coca- CHEGG
Cola, Jackie Robinson, Foot Locker, etc. especially “It acquired scholarship match service Zinch in 2011 Your resource towards financial health
if they are a competitive applicant, it is also a good and now hosts scholarships totaling over $1 billion.
practice to have them apply to local scholarships. I Its interface is simple and the mandatory sign-up
usually have my students ask the adults in their process is well worth the time. What's more, it has a
families to see if their employers, unions and civic "top scholarship picks this week" category, which
organizations offer scholarships. There are also highlights opportunities you may have otherwise
local organization such as the chamber of missed. And on top of the scholarships, Chegg
commerce, fraternities and sororities, unions, and offers homework help, tutoring, test prep,
civic organizations that offer scholarships and internships and (of course) textbooks.”
though smaller in number, they begin to add up and
can make a significant difference in the student’s THE COLLEGE BOARD
ability to attend college. Many of these “The College Board offers much more than an
organizations do not have enough applicants and extensive list of scholarships. It also has test prep,
I’m sure you’ve heard that many dollars in articles and college search tools, among others. And
scholarships go unclaimed. One key practice, as its "scholarships, other financial aid and internships EQUITY
you become familiar with scholarships and their from more than 2,200 programs" totals nearly $6
eligibility requirements, is to have students apply billion.”
only for scholarships where they meet the criteria.
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Sean Spears posted an article in USA Today, “It's neatly organized into categories that make it
highlighting the following 10 websites as the best for simple to start finding and applying for scholarships.
scholarships. You can browse by categories - including, but not
rants and Scholarships are considered gift limited to, sports, interest area, career and major.”
aid because students do not have to pay PETERSON'S
Gthem back. However, it is important to “The site boasts $10 billion in scholarship awards SCHOLARSHIPS.COM Download the app
understand the requirements of the grants and and has an impressive collection of articles, test Scholarships.com's tagline says it all: "With more
scholarships so that students can maintain those prep resources and more.” than 2.7 million scholarship and grant opportunities
that are renewable throughout their academic worth more than $19 billion, just about everyone is
careers. Especially with scholarships, it is important UNIGO bound to find something."
to know the duration of the scholarship so that this “ Unigo has plenty to offer beyond just scholarships,
does not affect affordability after the freshman year. including jobs, internships, college profiles and
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