The Biggest College Scholarship Searching Mistake

Sunday, October 25, 2009 by admin


Since the explosion of the internet many years ago, high school students have excelled at using online sources to find college scholarships.  This may seem like an easy, wonderful way to find and apply for scholarships, but searching for scholarships this way is only a very small part of how to find and win college scholarships.  Students assume that they are finding all the scholarships out there by entering “scholarships” into a seach engine and clicking on the links that appear.  It is a huge mistake for high school or college students to use only the internet to find scholarships!

There are so many resources in addition to the internet out there for students to tap into when beginning their quest to find and WIN scholarships.  There are books that list thousands of scholarships and categorize them by the students’ interests, intended college major, race, club affiliation, and so much more.  Often times, these scholarship books have scholarship opportunities that are not found online!  These books come out with new versions each year, with information that is often times much more up to date than online websites.

How do I know this?  I just went through the process of finding and applying for college scholarships with my son, who graduated in May of 2009.  We used the scholarship listing books and he won over $20,000 in college scholarships!  We found scholarships that no scholarship searching website ever sent to his email address, even though he signed up for every single one of these “helping” websites. 

After my son had so much success and I began to tell people about the methods we came up with to apply for scholarshps, I created www.how2winscholarships.com  Feel free to visit and learn what you need to win college scholarships.

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