Your teens live on social media (and you do too!) Why not parlay some of that recreational social media time into a productive scholarship search? These three social media scholarship strategies can add some scholarship dollars to your college fund! Facebook Looking for scholarships? Why not use your Facebook time to your advantage. All … Continue reading Scholarship Friday: 3 Social Media Scholarship Strategies
Imagine knowing when your student graduates from college he will have a skill, a high quality liberal arts education, and a job. Imagine a technical education with a liberal arts degree. Imagine your student doing a job he actually enjoys and is related to his major after graduation. Until recently, these claims did not … Continue reading Degrees That Work: One College’s Best Kept Secret
Looking for scholarships? Why not use your Facebook time to your advantage. All you have to do is “like” some Facebook scholarship pages and watch the scholarship information fill your timeline. Here are 10 Facebook pages that dispense regular scholarship information: 1. Scholarships.com https://www.facebook.com/scholarships.com.info 2. Scholarship Experts https://www.facebook.com/scholarshipexperts 3. How to Win College Scholarships … Continue reading Scholarship Friday: 10 Facebook Scholarship Pages to “Like”
Pinterest is an excellent place to find scholarships. If you follow these boards, you could unearth some scholarships, get scholarship tips, and gather a wealth of scholarship information. If you aren’t on Pinterest, you should be. It’s easy to follow these scholarship boards—just click on the links and start gathering scholarships. https://www.pinterest.com/suzannemshaffer/scholarships/ https://www.pinterest.com/unigo/scholarships/ https://www.pinterest.com/studentadvisor/scholarships/ … Continue reading 10 Scholarship Boards to Follow on Pinterest
A few months ago I wrote an article for University Parent to provide parents with tax filing tips. Here’s a repost of that article: There’s no doubt — higher education is expensive. For the average family, like mine, paying for college can cause sleepless nights, especially if you haven’t planned and saved. With college costs … Continue reading Wednesday’s Parent: Tax Filing Tips for Parents
Let your creativity help pay for college with the 5th Annual “Design-A-Sign” Scholarship Contest! We want to see inspired banner designs that express your future dreams and goals you hope to achieve through higher education. The winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship to a college, university or trade school of their choice as well as a one year … Continue reading Scholarship Friday: “Design-a-Sign” $1000 Scholarship Contest
Third-year Phillips Academy Andover high school student and author of “The Boarding School Survival Guide” (Peterson’s 2014) Justin Muchnick is seeking submissions to award two $1,000 boarding school scholarships that are available to current or future boarding school students. “The Boarding School Survival Guide” – written by students for students – includes chapters written … Continue reading Scholarship Friday: Boarding School Scholarship
4 Year Trip gives users more than just information about colleges. GPS technology sends notifications about nearby events, users gain rewards for using the app, and searching for scholarships is always a smartphone away. Attending the right higher educational institution takes much research and planning. 4 Year Trip, a new iOS and Android app … Continue reading A New App to Help With the College Search: 4 Year Trip
The best scholarship advice often comes in little snippets: begin the search early, search locally, send all the correct documents, apply before the deadline, and so on. For parents and students, it’s often easier to digest these pointed tips than read an extensive hundred page book on how to win scholarships. If this appeals to … Continue reading Scholarship Friday: Check Out Scholarship Mom’s Tips on Smart College Visit
Hollywood has warped the concept of a boarding school. Many people think of these schools as private country clubs that are expensive and exclusive. The truth is that these schools are very diverse, with children from all over the world attending classes and participating in their extracurricular activities. A local neighborhood school relies on … Continue reading Truth or Fiction: Are Boarding Schools Exclusive?