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College Scholarships - Scholarship Search Tips
Don't dismiss the possibility of getting a scholarship to help pay for your online education! You may not fully realize your scholarship potential. Everyone is good at something, and there's usually money around somewhere to support it. Get ready to spend some time researching - there are thousands of scholarships available!
Scholarship Search Tips
• Check with the guidance office at the school you plan on attending. This is usually the best place to start a local scholarship search.
• Check out private scholarships. Your best chance for receiving a private scholarship is from your local community. Private scholarships are awards that are offered by private or corporate entitities.
• Check with your or your parents employers. They may already have a program, or, under some instances, may be willing to start one just for you.
• Check with all charitable & service organizations that you and your parents may have connections with.
• Check into alternatives to scholarships. You will find many "awards" and "contests" out there that require nothing more than signing up for a newsletter or participating in a short poll. However, read the rules & regulations and privacy policy carefully - you may be opening the door to unwanted spam or worse.
• Don't pay for information you can get for free. There are sites that promise to supply you with a list of scholarship matches that are only available through paid membership. In most instances, these programs provide the same information you can find on other "free" scholarship sites.
• Beware of scholarship scams - Avoid scholarship offers that ask you to send money up front, scholarships for profit, advance-fee loans, require disbursement or redemption fees, and any other offers that seem "too good to be true" - they probably are!
Scholarship Search Sites
There are thousands of scholarship search sites on the web. The sites listed below have the largest databases of information and can target scholarships based on the profile information you provide.
These sites also provide information about distance learning programs. If you have found our site useful, we would appreciate if you would return here to request brochures or additional information about the online schools and programs you're interested in.
Scholarship Resource Network Express - Contains a database of over 8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Sallie Mae WiredScholar - Free scholarship search database. Provides access to a database that contains over 2.4 million scholarships worth over 14 billion dollars.
FastWeb - FastWeb lets you create a personalized profile that can be matched against their expansive databases of scholarships.
Petersons - One of the largest scholarship databases on the internet.
