Scholarshipzone

During their final few years of high school, students may be too busy filling out scholarship application after scholarship application and saving up money for college to have enough space in their heads to think about what's going to happen after they finally take their first steps on their college campus. After all, dealing with the inundation of new faces, a new routine and possibly navigating a new city all at once can be mind-boggling.…

Perhaps people don't normally think of hip hop artists as individuals they'd ask for a scholarship application. However, 42-year-old rapper and actress Queen Latifah has established a scholarship fund in honor of her brother, Lancelot Jr. Owens, reports Variety. Latifah's elder sibling tragically died during a motorcycle accident in 1992. Later that year, Rita L. Owens, mother of Lancelot Jr. and Latifah, founded the Lancelot H.…

It's going to cost almost 4 percent more to attend a private college in 2013. However, in a way, this is good news, because that's the smallest average amount tuition costs have risen since the 1970s, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).
The organization points out that while private universities have gotten more and more expensive, publicly funded colleges are seeming like a more fiscally wise option for some students.…

Most of the time, when older folks talk about how they used to walk miles through six feet of snow to get to school everyday, they're exaggerating. People who actually can recall days when schoolhouses only had one room, and towns would only employ one teacher expected to educate students of every age, are a dwindling lot.
In commemoration of such small town days of yore, the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) has established The One Room, One Teacher scholarship, which could allow its recipients to honor rural history while collecting financial aid for college.…

Statistics show that more students are enrolling in, and passing, advanced placement (AP) courses for college credit. Writing for the McClatchy-Tribune, vice president of the National Math and Science Initiative Greg Fleisher noted how AP courses prepare students for more rigorous college classes, and students who pass an AP exam are substantially more likely to go on to earn a college diploma than those who do not.…

Guidance counselors from the St. Charles County high school system in Maryland told a local newspaper their best tips for students seeking scholarships for college.
The first bit of advice dispensed by the counselors in the St. Charles Country Suburban Journal is a bit of a no-brainer. As merit scholarships based on students' grade point average (GPA), class rank and SAT scores are offered by many institutions for higher education, getting good grades throughout one's high school career could lead to receiving financial aid for college.…

Organizations that arrange accommodations for spending a semester studying in a foreign country have thousands of dollars worth of scholarships for college courses taken overseas.
The University Studies Abroad Consortium could provide qualifying students with between $300 and $2,000 per semester while they participate in one of the organization's numerous academic programs in 26 countries, according to a write-up in the Reno Gazette.…

In light of the rising cost of a college education, a mother and daughter wrote about their experiences attempting to find financial aid for college in USA Today.
Stating that scholarships helped them manage to completely eschew taking out loans, Julie Mayfield and her daughter, Lindsey, advise that parents looking for help putting their child through college should ask their employer if it provides scholarships for its workers' offspring.…

Speaking to the New York Times last year, FinAid publisher Mark Kantrowitz shared his knowledge of the most successful methods students applying for scholarships can use to receive financial aid for college.
"Not to quote Charlie Sheen, but we want to create a culture of winning," he said to the news source, before explaining that applying for as many scholarships as possible increases the odds of "winning" financial aid for school.…

In an effort to cut the cost of textbooks for students already struggling with their financial planning for college, the state of California is offering digital versions of 50 core textbooks to students at its state universities. The Los Angeles Times states that these books would normally cost $20, but students won't have to pay to receive the digital versions.
"Many students are paying more than $1,000 every year on their textbooks, sometimes having to choose between buying the books they need or paying for food and other living expenses," said California Senate President Darrell Steinberg.…