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In what I can only describe as bizarre, the October $10,000 scholarship winner would not provide the basic necessary details that winners are required to submit to us so that we may process their scholarship, thus forfeiting the $10,000 first prize.

All winners are required to give us: college name, financial aid officer’s name, mailing address, school id or last 4 digits of social, and a short paragraph about yourself and how the scholarship will help.  We also strongly encourage 10K winners to supply a 30-second or shorter video clip as well telling us how awesome Scholarshippoints is.  That’s it.  I am still scratching my head over this one.

At any rate, a new student has been crowned the $10,000 October scholarship winner!  Check out the winners page and see if it’s you!

At 11 AM Eastern Monday, November 2, we’ll be doing the Scholarship Points drawing live. Tune in here for it!

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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 my scholarship peeps!

If any of you are football fanatics you may want to check out one of the latest scholarship opportunities which was posted on studentscholarshipsearch.com over the weekend.  This one is designed for those with knowledge centering around the Philadelphia Eagles NFL team.  I so wish I was eligible for some of these scholarships.

Check out the Eagles Scholarship Opportunity!

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!

We are just twenty-three days away from the big $10,000 drawing on Halloween!  Who’s excited?  Who’s pumped?  Who wants to jump for joy?  I can’t even win the mucho but I am still excited!!

We’re thinking about having the next 10K winner video a :30 second snip it saying how much they love us and what they plan to do with the money.  The winners page is cool, with all the testimonials, but we still get people emailing us saying, “Are you guys for real?  Is this a scam?”  I’m not sure what else to do to prove we are not making this stuff up so I thought maybe a video from the winner?

Does anybody out there have a suggestion on how we can make people feel we are legit?  Are we doing a good job now?  When you come to the site do you think we seem shady or something?  My mission is to get no more emails that say, are you guys for real?  I need your help!!

Professor Plastic

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By far the best part of my job is when I inform a deserving student that they’ve won a scholarship from scholarshippoints.com, which is giving away over $100,000 in scholarship money this year.  The reactions I’ve got through the years have been priceless.  I’ve heard everything from, “Get the bleep out of here,” to “This [...]

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Did you find online education easy? Was it more difficult than a traditional classroom setting?  How long did it take you to get your degree? Was it expensive? Would you do it again? What was the financial aid process like? Did your classes transfer without a problem? Did a prospective employer have reservations about hiring you because your degree was from an online institution? Any other thoughts?

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Three ScholarshipPoints members will be scooping up 500 points each for simply referring friends to the best website on the planet! In addition, the first person to reach 500 referrals before the 500,000th ScholarshipPoints member joins will be awarded a $500 scholarship! How sweet is that?

So why are we adding this special scholarship opportunity? It’s just our way of saying thank you to all of our dedicated members. We’re pretty excited about hitting the 500,000 member mark and wanted to celebrate with you.

The race begins Friday, September 11 and ends when the 500,000th member joins the ScholarshipPoints family. We are forecasting hitting this historic mark within the next several weeks.

You can track your referral progress on your quest to win $500 bucks and 500 scholarship points by visiting the Top 25 referral leader board list.

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