Scholarshipzone

You're finally a college student - free, in charge of your own classes, sleeping schedule and even meals. So first thing's first - make sure you've got the classes you want and at least one that's outside your comfort zone. College is first and foremost about education. You're not paying all that money just to live in tiny dorms and eat pizza, after all.…

On May 14th, Elija Jenkins - a senior at South Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona - received the first Shane Figueroa Memorial Scholarship, honoring the late police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 2008.
Figueroa had been with the Phoenix Police Department for more than two years when he was hit by a drunk driver en route to a domestic-violence call.…

Bill and Melinda Gates, no strangers to philanthropy, annually award scholarships to 1,000 American students through the Gates Millenium Scholarship Program. The scholarships are good throughout four years at the school of that student's choice. It's a pretty amazing deal, as Thuy Hang Tran - a high school graduate from Dekalb County, Georgia - knows.
Thuy Hang Tran is one of fourteen students in the county to receive the Gates Millenium Scholarship.…

Visiting a college campus as a high school student is one of the more thrilling parts of your path toward higher education. You'll wander some of the most beautiful campuses in the world. It gives you an exciting and often intimidating glimpse into the world of college life - a world filled with studying, classes, piles of books and glorious independence.…

Applying to colleges is notoriously exhausting. It's hard enough to be a full-time high school student, but to search out schools and try your hardest to impress college admissions counselors while also producing essay after essay is a full-time job in itself.
No one would blame you for going a little manic and taking a few evenings off, but try your best to stay sane throughout the process.…

Do you have your heart set on Folklore and Mythology? Is Esperanto your foreign language of choice? Or more realistically, maybe you're invested in a theology major or alternative healthcare studies. Luckily, college majors aren't a popularity contest, and while there are winners, they're never clear-cut - so if you want to explore the healthful effects of drum circles, there's an educational outlet for that and perhaps a career.…

Freshman year of college is a binary: both the most fun you will ever have and the most stress. The phrase "work hard, party hard" gets thrown around at a lot of schools, and despite its accuracy, college is a turbulent time full of sound and fury, to paraphrase Shakespeare. Keeping a cool head, especially freshman year, can take some practice.…

So your best friend is looking for a roommate for next term, or maybe you and a close friend are heading to the same college after high school - if you have the option, should you room together? Here are some tips for college students stuck in a bind.
The only thing tougher than managing the coursework in college is managing your friendships.…

So you've spent the last eight months slaving over college applications and writing your heart out in essay after essay. The last thing you want to think about - other than finals probably - is a scholarship application. Here's the good news: All those college essays? Well there's probably a lot there that you can mine for your scholarship applications. The bad, but totally manageable, news?…

The current generation is growing up with computers - so much so that many children can learn to use a mouse before they first speak. With so much depending on our understanding of technology, from our jobs to our health, and so many fields becoming digitized, it's not surprising that computer science is one of the fastest growing fields in education.…