The number one question I receive from parents is: Where can my college-bound teen find scholarships? The best place to begin is at these sites and then expand the search to fit your individual student. Follow the trails that the matches give you and search locally as well.
1. Cappex.com–A site created for students to help them simplify their college search, create a profile and search for scholarships.
2. MeritAid.com–The place to go to find merit scholarships and academic scholarships from colleges across the country.
3. Scholarships.com–An extensive scholarship search engine that helps you search and schedule alerts for deadlines.
4. Fastweb.com–An extensive scholarship search website with a massive database of scholarships, along with articles and helps designed specifically for parents.
5. Zinch.com–A free service for students and parents where students can showcase themselves, connect with colleges, and search for scholarships.
6. FastAid.com is the world’s largest and oldest Private-Sector Scholarships, Graduate Scholarships, Worldwide Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants and Free Undergraduate College Scholarship database.
7. ScholarshipExperts has been helping parents and students find scholarships and free college money since 2001 with an updated database of college scholarships and grad school scholarships to provide accurate and timely scholarship information.
Thanks for the recognition, Parents Countdown to College Coach. We work hard to serve students and help them reach their goals. Our goal is to simplify the process for all!
Warm regards,
Lee Bilow
Director of Communications
Cappex.com and MeritAid.com
Zinch is a wonderful scholarship site. It doubles the scholarship amount of any scholarship you find, apply and win through Zinch. You can join at http://www.zinch.com/Anonymous/StudentRegister.aspx?affid=324845 .
For the 2nd year in a row, I am competing in the Sweet Diggity Dawg Scholarship, also known as the March Madnezz Scholarship Competition at Zinch, for $20,000. There are 8 rounds remaining, and from now on, the winner is selected by votes.
To help with the environment while I am in this contest, I will recycle 1 bottle for every vote I receive. At first, this may not seem like that much. It takes thousands of votes to win this competition.
You can vote for me at http://www.zinch.com/voting/Regionals.aspx?GroupId=37#Samantha-Kelley . If you could also join my Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=337138029668&ref=ts , that would be wonderful (I can make it into the top 64 simply by having the largest Facebook group).
Thanks to all who support me in my quest to pay for college by myself and leave debt free!
Thank you for including ScholarshipExperts.com. We are dedicated to helping students attend college without going into debt. Since 2007, we have been sponsoring monthly scholarship programs that are open to any U.S. student 13 years and older. They can be used at any U.S. college for any degree. http://www.scholarshipexperts.com/our-scholarships
These are all great scholarship sites! Remember to have students create a special email (firstname.lastname@___.com) to use just for scholarship sites. These sites tend to send a LOT of emails and info can get lost if mixed in with regular emails.
Great Tip Monica.