I won $291,500 in outside scholarships - my story

Thanks Courtney, I was just trying to look up actual financial eligibility for some students and when they say must have need it isn’t clear. Some are higher income than you, some about the same, but will have a gap between EFC and COA.

Courtney did you write a program to generate scholarships lists on your scholarship finder service? It is certainly a modest fee (Mods I hop it is okay to link, other people discuss more commercial services here.
http://www.courtneythurston.com/scholarship-consulting.html

Good to know about the JKC scholarship, I think the transfer scholarship is more well known. Thanks for teling how that works.

Questbridge isn’t an outside scholarship per se so I don’t want anyone confused. It is an outside agency that names ‘winners’ aka Finalists an honor to list. These are not outside scholarships they are just extra access to partner colleges that give comprehensive need aid.

Knowing about tax ability is important but I hope side discussion doesn’t bog the thread down.