<p>I’m a high school Junior, when can you start applying for Scholarship to go to a college? Can you please provide some resources, websites to get me started? I have done some google search and I got bombarded with ton of stuff.</p>
<p>One of the best places to look is local, although many local scholarships are aimed at high school seniors. Talk to your school guidance counselor. Begin looking at which school you want to go to and their scholarship application deadlines.
National scholarships are difficult to get. Local scholarships are the way to go. I applied for dozens of national and got nothing. However, I got enough enough local scholarships to pay for 80% of my first year of tuition. My second year I got enough school scholarship to pay 85%.</p>
<p>The BEST place to look for scholarships is from the COLLEGES that offer them since those are usually for all FOUR years of school.</p>
<p>The private ones are usually for SMALL amounts and only for ONE year…so not much help. </p>
<p>Fluteloop is rare to get private ones that are for multi-year.</p>
<p>Fluteloop: How much did you get your second year? tuition isn’t very high at Sonoma State (about $6k, right?). Who gave you those second year scholarships?</p>
<p>Mom: SSU tution is 6,900 for a year. I got 5,800 from Sonoma State as a “scholarship”. I didn’t apply for it, to literally showed up on my FA report after I contacted them because my EFC was way too high.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Fluteloop…your aid was NEED BASED. I remember your situation. You had the wrong EFC. you’re low income. After your school figured out the error, you were awarded a need-based grant.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of scholarship to be honest. I contacted FA after my EFC was too high and when I got a revised FA offer, it said “scholarship”. My GPA from the previous semester was 3.917 while taking 11 classes, so I assume that what I got it for.</p>
<p>Well, your mom earns $28k and because of some confusion about child support that your mother wasn’t receiving, your EFC was wrongly put as $20k. Once things got straightened out, your EFC was probably adjusted to a number low enough to qualify for a Cal Grant, or Pell Grant, or some other combo of grants. </p>
<p>So, very likely your aid is need based…since you asked for a review and there had been a serious error in your EFC. Some schools use the word “scholarship” for need based grants.</p>