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You may have noticed by now that Scholarship Points has a lot going on! Sometimes you might feel like keeping up with everything is a bit overwhelming. I bet you wish there was a place where you could quickly get updates on new scholarship contests, where to find point opportunities and even secret bonus codes. Well I am here to tell you that a place like that exists. If you did not know already, Scholarship Points is on Twitter!

If you follow @winscholarships you will never miss a point activity or scholarship deadline again! Isn’t that a relief? We all know that the more point activities complete the more chances you have to win scholarships. As a bonus, you will also be able to see when new scholarships are posted on Student Scholarship Search. Searching for scholarships will become almost no work at all.

So take one minute out of the hundreds that you are online every day to check out the feed. Trust me, you will kick yourself if you miss the next 10K deadline!

Hello my little scholarship seekers! As you know there are new scholarships posted each week over on Student Scholarship Search.  I just posted one this morning for the Olive Garden.  Personally I’d be happy if I won a gift card from Olive so I could eat some of that fine cuisine, but someone is going to win $2,500 and a three day trip to NY City along with dinner at the Olive Garden in Times Square!

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Scholarshippoints hits the 500,000 member mark!

One of my favorite movie quotes of all time is, “If you build it, he will come” from the 1989 hit movie Field of Dreams.  Now 20 years later I’m proud to say I am associated with scholarshippoints.com, a program which serves as its own field of dreams for many deserving students.

The scholarshippoints program was launched back in 2006.  We awarded $250, $500, and $1,000  scholarships during our inaugural year, but my how things have changed.

As the site has grow so have the scholarship dollars.  2008 was a banner year for us as we gave away $25,000, but are now on pace to shatter that mark by giving away an incredible $100,000 in ‘09!

“We were pleased to offer $25,000 in scholarship awards in 2008,” said Joe Cronin, CEO of Edvisors and Scholarshippoints. “But given the current state of the economy and limited resources available to families today, we knew we could have a profound impact by raising the scholarship award pool and helping even more students in 2009.”

Everyone at scholarshippoints would like to say THANK YOU to all our dedicated members, new and old, for making this a truly special site.  We just love adding new scholarship opportunities for our valued members, and I trust you love winning them!

We built it. You came. And we couldn’t be happier.

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Hello ScholarshipPoints gang!

This is the nutty Professor just wanting to remind you that a great resource to locate cool scholarships for school is over at studentscholarshipsearch.com.  I’ve been personally loading new scholarship opportunities every day especially for you and will continue to do so for the rest of my days here on earth.  So if you haven’t checked out that site be sure to do so.

Some of the new scholarships I loaded this week include one from Burger King, The Next Iron Chef, and even a scholarship for golf caddies.  There is a scholarship for everyone!

From Student Loan News, Updates and Blog Posts » Scholarship Points:

Friday Rant!
Did you hear the good news about the 2009-2010 academic year? In addition to the increase in Pell Grant money (which is great for students), Federal Stafford loan funds have been increased by $2,000! Terrific, let’s poor more student loan debt on the children of tomorrow.
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