<p>Want to add $1,000 to your college fund? (Or, if you are a parent, to your student's college fund?) It may not pay your tuition at Harvard, but it ought to cover books for a semester or two! And, as a bonus, you can help your fellow CC members by sharing your own college trip experiences.</p>
<p>We know our CC members have already made thousands of college</a> visits and will be making thousands more this summer. To encourage our members to share their experiences with others, we're going to offer a $1,000 scholarship and CC gear to members who submit qualifying visit reports. Here's how it works:</p>
<p>From all visit reports submitted between June 1, 2007 and August 31, 2007, we will randomly select 25 "semifinalists" and review the reports individually. All reports that, according to our panel of judges include sufficient detail and narrative to be helpful, will qualify as "finalists". (Our panelist won't be unreasonable, but they will reject reports that are lacking in specific information. These editorial decisions are final.)</p>
<p>From this group, one report will be randomly selected, and the CC member who submitted that report will receive the scholarship. Other finalists will receive CC gear (hats, t-shirts, etc.)</p>
<p>This scholarship is available to all registered CC members who will be enrolled in a four-year undergraduate school by the fall of 2008. CC members who are parents of students meeting those criteria may also submit visit reports on behalf of their student. We will contact winners by private message and/or by the account email. In the event that we don't receive a reply in seven days, or if the member is found to not meet the stated eligibility requirements, that member will forfeit the prize and we'll select another report randomly from our finalist group for the scholarship. Be sure your account email is up to date and that collegeconfidential.com is a "safe" sender! </p>
<p>**Every college trip is unique, and often a short visit doesn't provide a complete or accurate picture of what a college is really like. If we can share the experiences of many members, though, we'll help fill in the blanks and enable our members to more fully experience each college.<a href="Even%20if%20you%20aren't%20in%20the%20running%20for%20the%20scholarship,%20feel%20free%20to%20share%20your%20visit%20experiences%20with%20others...%20every%20little%20bit%20helps!">/b</a></p>
<p>Want to read about some college visits, or post your own? Go to College</a> Visits
You need to be a CC member to participate, register for free: Join</a> CC</p>
<p>ADDED: Just to be clear, it will be visit reports that are chosen, not individual members. Hence, reports on multiple colleges make selection as semifinalists more probable. Duplicate reports, reports that are submitted by phony users or by the same user under multiple user IDs, reports of questionable authenticity, etc. will be removed from consideration.</p>