The #1 Scholarship Searching Mistake - Don't Make It!
Posted: Sunday, September 13, 2009
by Monica Matthews
http://www.how2winscholarships.com
What college bound high school student does not want to win scholarships? I assure you, it can be done! You need to think "outside the box" and take a different path than that of your peers when searching for scholarships. Your main sources of competition are your fellow students. When it comes to finding scholarships, why would you do just what they do and find the same scholarships to apply for?
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 search 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!
In addition to the internet, there are many resources out there for students to use when starting their scholarship search. There are big scholarship listing books that organize thousands of scholarships by the student's hobbies, race, intended college major, club affiliation, and so much more. Many times, students will find scholarships listed in these books that are not found online! The books come out yearly and have more up-to-date information than the majority of scholarship listing websites. Priceless!
Besides the big scholarship listing books, there are many scholarship opportunities found in the student's high school counselor's office and a little know fact is that you don't have to be a student at that high school to apply for these scholarships. There are also state sponsored scholarships, university sponsored scholarships, and lots of other ways to find scholarships.
How did I discover this information? When my own son was a senior in high school, I went through the process of finding and applying for scholarships with him. We utilized the big scholarship listing books and as a result, he won over $20,000 in private college scholarships! From the books, we were able to find scholarships none of the scholarship searching websites found for him yet signed up for every single online scholarship searching website that we could find. We used all the scholarship searching sources that you read about here and even more that I did not mention.
After my son had so much success and I began to tell people about the methods we came up with to apply for scholarships, I created http://www.how2winscholarships.com. Feel free to visit and learn what you need to win college scholarships!
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