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As a student about to enter or return to college, you probably worry about several things. However, at the top of that list is how you are going to afford your tuition for the semester. Some students are lucky, they have parents that pay their way. Others aren’t so lucky and have to work and search for scholarships to make ends meet. You may be in a situation like this and if you are we are here to help you. One important thing that you have to realize is that it only takes one considerable, full-ride scholarship to change your...

ow many times have you heard the story of how one person is the first in their family to go to college? You hear it on the television, the movies and so forth. However, let’s step outside that medium for a moment and talk about what it might be like if you are the first person from your family to ever go to college. Do you get any “props” for that? Will you be given any type of assistance in the form of scholarships or financial aid? All of these are very good questions in which we will answer. But...

 Most people are under the impression that they have no chance of winning a scholarship. They believe they must do something unusual to get the scholarship. While we will admit that some scholarships are very tough, to get to think that you have absolutely no shot of winning scholarship money is ridiculous. There are plenty of unclaimed scholarships to which you can apply. One of these types of scholarships is religious scholarships. You are very likely to have attended some church event in your life. Churches are constantly sponsoring things like dinners, parties and concerts. However, the one thing that...

When searching for financial assistance for college, you need to arm yourself with as much information as possible. This means you need to find information on regular scholarships, fun scholarships, challenging scholarships, financial aid, student loans or whatever else you can access. Information is power. Today, we will be giving you a lot of information on an exciting type of scholarship. Out of all the scholarships we have featured throughout this site, there is one type we haven’t gotten into that deeply. Luckily, that is going to change today. About Corporate College Scholarships Corporations always look for a way to...

Now is as good a time to return to school and obtain your degree if you haven’t already, which is something we are seeing with older students. However, older college students tend to need a little help when it comes to tuition. College is a significant investment, but you will be happy to know it is worth it because it can open new opportunities for you. Luckily, we specialize in helping our visitors find a scholarship that fits their needs. Today we will be focusing on scholarships for older students. Scholarships For Older Students Returning To College Returning to college...

Many people will tell you that going to college out of your home state is a mistake. They will tell you that it costs more, it’s stressful, and you probably won’t have the money to do it successfully. Well, that is one myth we will be dispelling today. Going to college out of state affords you many great opportunities that kids going to college in the state aren’t afforded. For example, several out-of-state scholarships become available to you due to going to school out of state. We will use this page to explain how you can better your financial situation...

Academic scholarships are just another type of merit scholarship. You are awarded a scholarship based on how well you did in your previous school, whether it be a high school or college. Generally, “doing well” in school is determined by your GPA or grade point average. Also, your chances of winning an academic scholarship can ride where you rank overall in your class. If you are in the top ten per cent of your course, then your chances are good at getting an academic scholarship. If you graduated in the top five per cent of your graduating class, your options...

College scholarships are in very high demand. As a result, people are willing to try some outrageous things in order to get that extra money for their tuition. Outrageous is defined as shockingly bad or wildly exaggerated. We do want to clear one thing up before we start listing all your outrageous options. When we talk about outrageous scholarships we are not talking about bad scholarships or exaggerated scholarships. Instead, we are talking more about some ridiculous sounding ones or some very strange ones. The very fact that there is a scholarship for this ridiculous reason is outrageous. Of course,...

How many times have we heard the phrases “Wow, that’s cool” or maybe you have have heard “That dude is cool.” What if you started hearing those phrases being associated with scholarships? By it’s very nature any scholarship is pretty darn cool. You get money that you can use for school rather than paying out of your own pocket. However, what we are talking about on this page is a little greater than that. Lets take a look at what a cool scholarship actually is. What Is A Cool Scholarship? Yes, like we said above, any scholarship can be technically...

As a leading authority in the scholarship industry we owe it to our visitors to find any type of scholarship that they may or may not be interested in. It has recently come to our attention that people are searching online for scholarships based on their hair color, in particular people with brown hair. Now, at first it seemed absurd to us that anyone would give away a scholarship based on having brown hair. However, after doing some actual research on the topic we learned a lot and we think you will be interested in what we found. Scholarships For...