04.02.10 | Using Your Summer Break to Search for Scholarships Part 1
For college students, summer vacation is well known as a time to see old friends, relax and recharge, and make money for the upcoming school year. Most students use this time to completely forget about the stresses of college life, but others use summer break as a time to do some of the college-related activities generally set aside during the academic year. Searching for scholarships is one of those activities.
If you are, or have ever been, a college student, you know how crazy a schedule can get with classes, papers, exams, and other activities. Even thinking about applying for scholarships is usually out of the question. With more free time than at any other point in the school year, summer break gives students a great opportunity to search and apply for scholarships. Scholarship searching can be extremely time consuming, but spreading the process out over an entire summer will make it much less overwhelming.
No one should have to make searching for scholarships a full time job during their summer vacation, but here are a few ways to make the most of your summer scholarship search:
1: Set aside some time each day: If you spend an hour a day searching for scholarships, that is seven hours a week and as many as 100 hours total for the summer. Just think about how many applications you could submit in that amount of time!
2: Submit only high quality applications: Take your time on applications and make sure you have all of your application pieces (essays, transcript etc.) together before you submit it. Do not waste your time submitting an application that you are not confident about.
3: Use your community resources: The Internet is not the only place to search for scholarships. There could be thousands of dollars worth of scholarships in your back yard. Many town organizations, churches and businesses give out scholarships every year. Use your summer vacation go make connections with these groups.
Stay tuned for part 2 to learn what else you can do to maximize your summer scholarship search!
Read the full article on FinancialAidNews.com
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Very interesting. Nice advise, I might just do that.
its great!
well thats what im probably doing this summer… looking for scholarships.
Very Good!
Those are very helpful tips
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I think that an hour a day is far too little. I probably spend more time looking for scholarships than I do in school.
Wow that is a lot of scholarships for an hour per day. That doesn't sound too bad at all I might try it.
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It's really interesting!! I have that on my previous college too! Well this time if I were to take summer break, I'd try to find something to do thats school related!
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