USDA: A Surprising Source for Scholarships

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Scholarships http://www.usda.gov The USDA has an extensive list of scholarships for students majoring in agriculture, animal sciences, botany, horticulture, soil management, and other related disciplines. There are also a number of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and business scholarships listed. Use the search window at the top of […]

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In the Zone or Not Even Close? (UPDATED March 27, 2015)

ScholarshipZone http://scholarshipzone.com/ ScholarshipZone.com and its sister site, FreeCollegeScholarships.net are scholarship contest sites, both offering entry into a $10,000 scholarship contest for the price of filling out their “registration” or “profile” forms. Here are another two sites that fail to reveal anything about their ownership. Since the sites are registered with a privacy screen, ownership can’t […]

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Finding Scholarships with the Scholarship Detective

ScholarshipDetective http://www.scholarshipdetective.com/ ScholarshipDetective was established in 2007. This is another site whose owners fail to identify themselves upfront. We think, based on IP address, that the site belongs to Gen Tanabe, who also owns MoolahSPOT and, apparently, CollegeIsPower, SuperCollege, and the Gen and Kelly Tanabe Scholarship sites. One wonders why the site owners are so […]

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