All students and their parents have one goal in mind when trying to find money for college: Get a scholarship! They have visions of letters of congratulations and large checks being mailed to them over and over until they no longer have to worry about how they are going to pay for college. Sound like a dream come true? Well, it happened to me when my son was a high school senior and college student and it can happen to YOU too!
To get a scholarship there is ONE important thing that all students MUST do: APPLY! If you don’t apply for scholarships, those big checks will not fill your mailbox! It sounds simple, but I actually thought that because my son had a high grade point average and scored well on his ACT, we would be getting calls and letters from colleges offering him scholarship money. In fact, I was even told by his high school counselor that the calls and offers would come! WRONG. The number one reason that my son won so many scholarships was that we took the time to apply for as many as we possibly could. We applied for local scholarships, national scholarships, private scholarships, and any other scholarship that we found that he qualified to apply for. We applied, applied, applied and after that, we applied some more.
When applying for scholarships, my son and I didn’t just fill out the application, fold it, stick it in the envelope, throw a stamp on it, and send it on its merry way. No, we used what I like to refer to as my “secret weapon”. What we mailed off was not just a scholarship application, but a masterpiece to be proud of. The scholarship applications that my son and I created were truly windows into what kind of student and person my son was growing up to be. I had scholarship judges tell me that they had never seen any other scholarship application like ours. The result was a daily race to the mailbox to bring in enough letters of congratulations and fat scholarship checks to allow my son to go to college for FREE. That is how you get scholarships!
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