Scholarshipzone

While there's no doubt that every college freshman can always use a ziplock bag filled with baked goods and a few new pairs of socks, don't be afraid to employ a little more imagination with your care packages. Most students will have enough pens, pencils and notebooks to last them a lifetime. And while a local newspaper from home is a kind gesture, it's just as easy to email them a link to the paper's website.…

The sudden freedom of freshman year can often inspire a spending spree in freshman students. But it's important and essential to learn that becoming an adult doesn't mean you've got an adult's bank account. Students are stereotyped as impoverished for a reason - you're working for grades not paychecks, and what little money you have usually needs to go to the essentials.…

When applying to colleges your AP class credits, SAT scores, GPA and extracurriculars all make a difference. But the fact of the matter is that numbers blend together, and don't differentiate you from the pack of applicants quite the same way words do. Your chance to really speak to the admissions officers at colleges is through your application essay.
College application essays are an art.…

In the old Aesop fable about the City Mouse and the Country Mouse, a pair of rodents find that neither is made out for the other's prefered environment. The City Mouse finds the country impossibly dull, while the Country Mouse prefers to have his meals without fear of being swallowed by a dog.
The same sort of conflict is faced by a lot of high school seniors preparing to apply to the colleges of their choice.…

Colonel Harland Sanders had a variety of jobs before he got down to the business of making the world's most famous fried chicken. And years later, after his Kentucky Fried Chicken brand has established itself at the head of the market, a scholarship was created in his memory. Over the past seven years, the Colonel's Scholars scholarship has given more than $10 million to high school seniors moving on to higher education at a college or university of their choice.…

Colleges - even those in cities - tend to be isolated bubbles. You travel from dorm to dorm, library to dining hall and it can be a lot of walking. Say you want to get off campus and visit another school's library or even just see a movie in town - what's the best way to do this without a car or breaking the bank to get one?…

More often than not, you've finished filling in all the prerequisite materials on your scholarship application - volunteer work, current employment, GPA, advanced classes - and come to the essay only to find that it asks you the most difficult question you could imagine - "Why do you deserve this scholarship?"
It's not easy to say that the money would help take a lot of the stress out of financing higher education.…

Amanda Lamond has been in school for 16 years in order to call herself a doctor. Many could say the same, but few were raising three children at the same time.
Dr. Lamon-Holden told ABC News that she couldn't have done it without the support of her children, family and welfare assistance.
"There were people that told me, 'You won't make it through medical school.…

Your first year of college might be both your most organized and your most disorganized. While you'll be trying your best to keep everything in order, it's also a brand new style of education and schedule - even after four years, a 10 p.m. class might seem unorthodox. But as you get used to college, your organizational habits will fall into place, your internal clock will adjust to your schedules and you'll be amazed how little sleep and individual can get by on - not to mention that you do have a taste for coffee and strong tea.…

Education Aid has announced the winner of the first Awareness and Prevention Scholarship Program in conjunction with Nursing Home Abuse.net. U.S. Navy veteran and single mom Julie Raysbrook, who is studying Human Services at Western Washington University, will receive $5,000 for rent, textbooks and school supplies for the 2012-2013 academic school year.
The scholarship was created to help students pursuing a career that helps raise awareness of elderly abuse and neglect.…