Over the last several years, we’ve checked out nearly 100 scholarship search sites and apps. Along the way was born our mortarboard rating system as a quick summation of the site’s overall value in your scholarship search. Taken into consideration in our rating system was information such as transparency of ownership and what the owner […]
Read MoreUnited 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 […]
Read MoreScholarshipZone 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 […]
Read MoreScholarship Mentor Web Portal http://scholarshipmentor.com Scholarship Mentor is a web portal containing links to scholarships of all kinds. There’s no indication of who runs the site or where the information comes from. But that seems to be not so much a reluctance to provide this as it is that the site doesn’t seem to be […]
Read MoreScholarshipDetective 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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