5 Tips To Win Free Money For College



Posted: Sunday, September 13, 2009

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Winning college scholarships is not just about having a good G.P.A. and being the student body president.  The key to winning scholarships is to do what most of the other applicants are NOT doing.  Average students can win scholarships and all it takes is a few tips to get you started.

The first tip in winning college scholarships is to not just use the internet to do your scholarship searching.  There are many other sources available where can find a ton of scholarships and many of them will not be found through online searches.  Because of this, fewer students apply for these scholarships and your chances of winning are automatically higher.  Improve your odds of winning right from the start and don't do what all the other students are doing in their scholarships searching!

How do you decide what scholarships to apply for?  The answer is:  As many as you possibly can!  Don't let the amount of money to be won determine if you are going to apply for each scholarship.  Scholarships with large awards are great, but smaller awards DO add up.  Also, many students make the mistake of applying for just the big scholarships and ignore the little ones.  Smaller scholarships often have fewer students applying for them, which makes you chances of winning them higher.  Apply for big and little scholarships and don't decide based on the amount of the award to be won.

Don't ever ignore need-based scholarship opportunities.  These are scholarships that determine if you qualify to apply for their scholarship award based on the total income of you and/or your parents.  Surprisingly, some need-based scholarships use the income level of $100,000 or less to be considered for their scholarship!  Don't be tempted to not apply for need-based scholarships, unless you truly do have an income level of under $100,000.  You don't know the income level that each scholarship requires unless it is clearly stated in the applications rules.  If you search for and cannot find the income requirement in the rules and you honestly need the aid, you can apply for the need-based scholarships.

Use community service hours and your experiences with helping others as much as you can on your scholarship applications.  Judges truly love students who have given their time freely to volunteer in their communities.  You may have thought that helping your little brother's tee ball team was just for fun, but to a scholarship judge it counts as community service hours.  Also, when you volunteer it gives you more to write about when you answer the popular essay question:  Tell us what you have done to help society.  Don't panic if you don't have many community service hours.  It's never too late to start and you can get in a lot of hours if you start NOW.

I did say five, but the very best and most important tip on how to win college scholarships is to learn how to make your scholarship applications stand out to the judges.  I developed a method of doing this that won my son over $20,000 in private scholarships.  I was personally told by a few judges that his application package was so impressive that they knew from the start that he was going to be awarded their scholarship.

If you truly want to win college scholarships, you can learn about my method by going to http://www.how2winscholarships.com.  I will teach you what it takes to get your scholarship applications noticed by the judges.  Scholarship deadlines are coming closer each day.  Don't wait!  You CAN win free money for college and I will help you each step of the way.


Monica Matthews is a teacher who is now a stay-at-home mom to 3 boys.  Her oldest son attends The University of Michigan and won over $20,000 in private scholarships.  She is the author of How To Win College Scholarships and many other online scholarship searching and tips articles.  Find out more about winning scholarships by visiting www.how2winscholarships.com.
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