Tips to help you win scholarships
How to Avoid Scholarship Scams With the advent of the Internet, it’s never been easier to find scholarships and grants. When we conducted a Google search using “college scholarships,” it returned 153 million results. One of the obvious downsides of the Internet is the sheer number of web pages to search. Especially if you’re wading […]
Read MoreUnawarded Scholarships Having recently graduated, I can say that it took hours, weeks, and months of dedicated work to search out the scholarships for which I was eligible. I searched through my lender resources, school resources, the local library, and online. Years later, I still get spam emails from the online searches I conducted. (TIP: […]
Read MoreUse the Cookie-Cutter Approach to Save Time & Apply for Tons of Scholarships! I’ve been talking with college students all over Vermont as part of a qualitative assessment of their experience as a NASA-funded scholar. For most students, this is the only scholarship they applied for. However, one smart young woman pointed out to me […]
Read MoreJust a few weeks ago, I was hurrying home through an afternoon rainstorm. As I pulled up to my house, I found the driveway blocked by the Little River Survey Company‘s truck. Hopping out of my car, I ran through the rain. Dodging the drops as best I could, I headed for the surveyor’s tripod. […]
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