Scholarships websites?

LasMa
Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:01:24 +0000

The scholarships on those websites are labor-intensive to apply for, and the payoff will probably be small to zero. Most are for nickel-and-dime amounts compared to the cost of college. Many of them will require hours of work, with no guaranteed payoff. And most are for one year only; you need 4 years of funding. Finally, understand that almost all of the scholarship money in the system is dispensed by the colleges themselves, not by these sponsors of teeny little scholarships.

You’d be far better off investing your time in finding colleges that give generous merit aid, and then turning in boffo applications to those schools.