<p>Does anyone know any scholarships search sites that dont send random crap to you? Also, does anyone know any specific scholarships for high achieving students (more academic and volunteer services)?</p>
<p>im a junior btw</p>
<p>I would also like to know this. I am a senior, and I am struggling to find scholarship sites that are actually GOOD! Whenever I go on them, they suggest that I apply for random scholarships that don’t match the information I have given them (this includes CollegeBoard). It is especially difficult to find scholarships that are not dependent on race/gender/location/parent’s employment. I just don’t know how to find good information! Any GOOD sites would be appreciated!</p>
<p>Instead of sites, try scholarship books. I got some from my local library and they were extremely helpful.</p>
<p>[Scholarships4students</a> search scholarships, grants, loans, colleges, educational needs](<a href=“http://www.scholarships4students.com%5DScholarships4students”>http://www.scholarships4students.com)</p>
<p>Also, take the name of a major company, type it into google with the word “scholarship” after it and assure you that you will come across tons. I have. I think I am applying to like 30 scholarships this year.</p>
<p>brokescholar and fastweb dot com are both pretty legit.</p>
<p>I would ask your counselor for local scholarship opportunities since they are marginally easier to win and usually less people know about and apply for them.</p>
<p>I believe scholarships dot com, fastweb.com, and schoolsoup.com are pretty legitimate. My school lists them in the college process handbook they gave out to the seniors (i’m a junior too btw)</p>
<p>I personally use [FastWeb</a> : Scholarships, Financial Aid, Student Loans and Colleges](<a href=“http://www.fastweb.com%5DFastWeb”>http://www.fastweb.com) and <a href="http://www.%5B/url%5D">www.</a> as my primary search engine databases. (I actually won a Horatio Alger National Scholarship [$20k] from those results.) [ScholarshipExperts.com:</a> Scholarships, Scholarship, College Scholarships, Scholarship Search](<a href=“http://www.scholarshipexperts.com%5DScholarshipExperts.com:”>http://www.scholarshipexperts.com) and <a href="http://www..com%5B/url%5D">www..com</a> can top off your search results.</p>
<p>From my own experience, crosschecking all of the databases works well, but if you only want to use one, use one of the first two. FastWeb gives more essay contests, while ***************** gives more corporate/foundation scholarships.</p>
<p>awesome list of scholoarships any one with a list of student loans ?
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<p>Probably the most bang for the buck [time spent] is the endowment scholarship at the college itself. Your grades,class rank,and parents financial assets[lack thereof] can contribute greatly to the total award. Our daughter got 64K straight academic plus much more in money saving grants and subsidized loans. She was by no means the brightest student in the room on interview day,but was in the top 30 in awarded scholarships. She owes less than 20K after 4 years at a 40K/year college, and her experience and recommendations by that school were instrumental in landing her a full ride including room and board at grad school.
Private schools should always be in the mix of schools you apply to because of the fact that they often are cheaper to attend than a state school. Going after those big national scholarships is fine,but local and endowment needs and merit based aid should be a big part of your scholarship search.</p>
<p>[Financial</a> Aid Finder - Free College Financial Aid and Scholarship Info](<a href=“http://www.financialaidfinder.com%5DFinancial”>http://www.financialaidfinder.com) Has a good compilation of scholarships.</p>
<p>IT is challenging. You start looking and something looks suitable and then
- you find out they want a 10,000 word essay
- you find out that special consideration is given to some major or group that you are not
- you (eventually) find out that you really were a long shot. </p>
<p>Still, keep after it. Once in awhile something fits like a glove. Talk to your GC and find out what this year’s seniors are getting. It would be great for you to talk to someone from your school that was successful with a particular scholarship. They may have some specific tips that make your application a winner.</p>
<p>The best scholarships are from SCHOOLS. </p>
<p>School scholarships are usually larger and for all 4 years (as long as grades are maintained.)</p>
<p>We found most of these from Fastweb to be a waste of time. Many, many of the scholarships included are merit scholarships, but limited to those demonstrating “financial need”, or with enormously lower awards for those winners who don’t demonstrate financial need according to the sponsors.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Fastweb itself generates a ton of email advertising, and you have to wade through a lot of junk to get the chance to look. Their search was rather completely ineffective - many of their suggested scholarships had (non-academic) requirements that completely eliminated my D, though she wasted good time figuring that out.</p>
<p>For students coming from families earning under $60K a year, I think it could be helpful. If your family income is over $90K a year, I don’t think that there’s much benefit compared to the time investment.</p>
<p>I really wish that there was a requirement that scholarships be listed with appropriate modifiers:
Merit scholarships (unrelated to financial need)
Merit scholarships (only for students with demonstrated financial need, or only for students eligible for Pell grants, …)
Merit scholarships for students from XYZ County (or majoring in Y, or child of a plumber, …)</p>
<p>The information is there, but it isn’t searchable, and often requires that you dig down several levels to find it.</p>
<p>***** is a great one too.</p>
<p>Okay apparently thats a swear word??? What??? anyway type z i n c and an h.com for a good scholarships search thing.</p>