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Scholarship Searches
Scholarships are gift assistance awarded to students with special qualifications, such as academic, athletic or artistic talent. Awards are also available for students who are interested in particular fields of study, who are members of underrepresented groups, who live in certain areas of the country, or who demonstrate financial need.
Don't waste money on fee-based scholarship matching services. We recommend that you use the Internet to access on-line searches for scholarship information. You may begin utilizing a free scholarship search at the following links:
FastWeb's
free scholarship search includes more than 400,000
scholarships worth more than $1 billion. FastWeb is a personalized search
that compares your background with a database of awards and is provided
completely free. Only awards that fit your profile are identified as
matches. When you supply an e-mail address, you will be notified when new
awards that match your profile are added to the database.
Local Scholarships
Please make a habit of checking with Enrollment Services and the Foundation Office for postings about local awards. They are generally not listed in any database. You might also check information in the public library as well as notices in your local newspaper. Sponsors may include organizations, clubs, churches, and employers.
Scholarship Scams
Scholarships that sound too good to be true usually are. Learn how to recognize and protect yourself from the most common scholarship scams. If you have to pay money to get money, it's probably a scam.
Every year, several hundred thousand students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. Scam operations often imitate legitimate government agencies, grant-giving foundations, education lenders, and scholarship-matching services, using official-sounding names containing words like "National," "Federal," "Foundation," or "Administration."
In general, be wary of scholarships with an application fee, scholarship-matching services that guarantee success, advance-fee loan scams, and sales pitches disguised as financial aid "seminars".
The Federal Trade Commission's web site will provide you with information regarding scholarship scams and how to avoid them.
