Steps for Scholarships

In order to reach your goal of a free college, you will need to do several things.

1. You need to apply for as many scholarships as possible. More thoughtful, detailed, appropriate applications mean more opportunities for you to be the recipient. Remember, you won’t be the only student applying for the scholarships. Also, few scholarships will pay the entire cost, tuition, fees, room and board, and books. But combining the proceeds of several scholarships will allow a student to pay for college using only scholarship money.

2. You must know a scholarship is available before you can apply.There are several ways to find out about scholarships. One is to do an online scholarship search. You can find one list of scholarship search engines here.

3. Applying for schoarships are an important step. Scholarship committees don’t come knocking on your door offering you money.

4. Follow the rules. Applications received that don’t follow the rules aren’t considered. Some scholarships accepted by mail will want part of the application printed and part in the student’s handwriting, it’s important these be completed correctly. Meet the deadlines. It does you no good for the scholarship committee to receive your application two days after the deadline.

5. Applications need no mistakes, no blank spaces. Before hitting send, or putting scholarship applications in the mail double check them. You don’t want to have your name spelled wrong, or the number in your address transposed. It’s best to let the application set for a day before checking for errors. While checking for typos, see that every space has an answer. If the question doesn’t apply to you, simply put N/A in the space. This shows the committee you didn’t skip the question, it simply doesn’t apply to you.