Scholarshipzone

Two of the most important numbers that will appear on your college applications are your GPA and SAT scores. While these certainly tell your prospective school how much you excel overall as a student and how great a test taker you are, they don't reveal one important aspect of your character - how much do you challenge yourself?
Passing classes and quizzes with flying colors is important and essential to getting into your top schools, but colleges want to know that you're a student who knows how to set goals and rise to challenges.…

Sometimes the small things make all the difference, and that's never more true for your wallet than during your four years of college. A penny saved is a penny earned, and you're going to need all the pennies you can get once you graduate. Do your best to save more than a few cents at a time with these quick tips for saving money during college.…

Since its debut, Twitter has quickly become a reigning king of social media. It's simple, haiku-like 140-character parameters means that it stands out from the crowd - fast, efficient and useful. Sounds like a great tool for scholarship seekers, and If you're looking for scholarship opportunities, you're sure to find a few in the Twitterverse.
U.S. News and World Report recently published a story by Scholarship America outlining the top ten Twitter handles for those social network-savvy individuals looking for a little financial assistance for college.…

College is a tough time financially for most students. While you'll be forking out money hand over fist to stay in school, chances are you won't have the spare hours for full-time employment, and even part-time work is sparse and accrued at minimum wage.
So how do you avoid crippling debt post graduation? College costs a lot, but it shouldn't cost you your quality of life after you graduate.…

You've finally wrapped up your college applications, you have some room to breathe, the hints of anxiety about acceptance letters are already tingling and then someone tells you it's time to start the scholarship applications. While not as stressful as the college application process, applying for scholarships is still a lot of work - it requires hunting down, careful consideration, numerous essay drafts and - most of all - a large chunk of your time.…

Dunkin' Donuts has been keeping college kids going for years with delicious coffee ideal for late-night cram sessions and pre-class wake-me-ups, but now they're giving a group of scholars a non-caffeinated advantage in the classroom. The lucky students who won the third annual Dunkin' Donuts Philadelphia Regional Scholarship Program will be taking home $1,000 scholarships for full-time study at any two- or four-year university or vocational-technical school during the upcoming academic year.…

Scholarship essay prompts will ask you a variety of difficult questions, from the confusingly open-ended (“What is bravery?”) or exasperatingly difficult (“Sum yourself up in 500 words”) to the downright impossibly blunt (“Why do you deserve this scholarship?”). So how do you ace any and all of these prompts? There’s no true one word answer, but if there were it might be “honesty.”
Scholarship application readers are good at one thing above all else, sniffing out liars.…

The summer between your junior and senior year of high school is a momentous one and you've likely been traveling all around your region, if not the United States, looking for the ideal school for you. As the summer winds up, there's no better time to fit in a few more campus visits - especially close to home. Making a day trip of it can turn the a college tour into a short vacation for the whole family too.…

While you can expound all you like on Nietzsche, Banach algebra, quantum computing or the linguistic acrobatics of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake in your college or scholarship application essay, a misuse or two of "affect" and "effect" will immediately make you look silly. How do you avoid this deplorable fate? Keep in mind all the various and regular misuses of everyday words, dodge them and search doggedly through your essay for them.…

Grammatical mistakes are common. People tend to write like they talk - which isn't always a bad thing as it gives the writing rhythm and a natural flow - but people don't tend to speak with perfect grammar. This is why it's imperative that students reread application essays over again and share with peers and teachers to comb out even the tiniest of grammatical mistakes that may catch the eyes of scholarship or college admissions readers.…