After hunting for the best merit scholarships possible directly from the colleges, you and your child may find leftover expenses that are not covered. Whether your child needs extra money to cover tuition, books, or other expenses, the next step after hunting for merit aid is to apply for private Read more…
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This post was first published in September 2017. If you are reading this in 2019, the latest version of the list, version 7.1, was published on 3-13-2019. This past weekend, I released Full Scholarship List 4.0. This is the latest full update to my list of full tuition and full Read more…
Finding your deals is the point in the Upside Down College Search process where you determine colleges that are likely to meet the criteria you have defined and will be a good deal for your family. Over the past several weeks, I have covered the steps to defining your criteria: What Read more…
Before we go on with the Upside Down College Search process, let’s talk about Expected Family Contribution. Last week, I said that this week’s topic would be “What Deals Can You Get?” As I started writing that, I found the need to explain a lot of background information related to Read more…
What’s your student’s merit hook for the college search process? I am not going to go so far as to say that every future college student has a merit hook, but most do. Even if your student is not at the very top of his or her class, he or Read more…
Winning private scholarships is a great way for your student to supplement his or her college funds. Private Scholarships are scholarships offered by private businesses, organizations and foundations, not scholarships offered by colleges themselves. Private scholarships can be merit-based, need-based, or a combination of both. Private scholarships will usually require Read more…
Why I charge for the Full Scholarship List … I didn’t plan on writing a post about this, but lately I have felt like I needed to. If you have read my About Me page, you already know that I am the mother of three girls – two successfully sent Read more…
What is an automatic merit scholarship? An automatic merit scholarship is one that a college provides “automatically” based on the student meeting specific criteria. The student doesn’t need to compete to receive a scholarship. Many colleges offer automatic merit scholarships as a form of tuition discounting to attract top students. Read more…
Finding and winning private scholarships can be a complicated process. Most families dream about getting a full-ride scholarship to college so that they don’t have to pay out of pocket. The reality is that most full rides come from institutional merit scholarships or athletic scholarships. There are not that many Read more…