scholarships

A guide to writing scholarship-winning essays that includes tips for finding the right scholarships, writing a winning essay, avoid common mistakes, mastering the interview, and other related topics.

Explains where to find and how to go about getting scholarships that are targeted toward African-American students, with listings from private and federal sources.

Presents a comprehensive guide to acquiring an athletic scholarship, and provides strategies to receiving financial aid, grants, or low-interest loans based upon athletic ability.

A step-by-step guide to finding, applying for, and winning scholarships for college, with reprints of successful scholarship applications, and answers to commonly asked questions.

Lists expenses and average financial aid award amounts at over two thousand colleges and universities in the U.S., covering freshman and undergraduate financial aid, need- and non-need-based gift aid, loans, work-study, and athletic awards; and provides financial aid application details and contact information. Also includes general financial aid guidance, a chart comparing costs at the colleges profiled, and profiles of state scholarship and grant programs.

Provides a listing of five hundred scholarships available for college, organized alphabetically within over sixty subject areas, each providing the name of the sponsoring organization, a description of the award, and eligibility and application requirements.

Four high school friends pledge to maintain their virginity in order to exemplify the purity required to win a scholarship.

Presents a guide to paying for college, providing information on how to find financial aid, how to choose the best financial aid package, how to save for college, how to make college cheaper, and how to avoid financial aid scams.

Contains descriptions of 2,799 sources of scholarship money for college based on career and academic goals, public service, extracurricular activity, talent, athletics, religion, and other criteria, each listing contact information, the purpose of the award, eligibility requirements, target applicants, minimum GPA, amount, number of awards, deadline, and how to apply.

Discusses opportunities for joining cheerleading squads, dance and drill teams, and marching bands in college, and looks at scholarships and other benefits available to members of these activities.