I’ve found some online scholarships I want to apply for and ik all are different but if they just say “1000 dollars” for a certain essay, is it 1000 per year or just 1000 for freshman year? I signed up as a high school senior looking for scholarships for high school seniors
Just for frosh year.
that’s why those fastweb type scholarships won’t pay for college. They’re only for one year.
If you need money for college, then you need to apply to the schools that will give those awards for YOUR stats
Sometimes they are renewable – but if they are, they will say that up front. And yes, most are not.
Very rarely do outside scholarships pay for college; nothing in your plan should ever be contingent on winning an outside scholarship. Apply if you want, but do so after scholarship applications from schools themselves.
Also, just a note – many of those $1k awards don’t have good time/reward ratios. I was successful at a much higher rate with the bigger programs – but it varies by student.