ABFSE Undergraduate Scholarship Amount: Up to $2,500 Apply By: September 1, 2019 Description: Scholarship is open to students who have completed at least one semester of study in a program for funeral...
Scholarships for DACA Students
Invest in Us: Anonymously Answer 2 Questions About Student Debt Amount: $2,500 Apply By: August 30, 2019 Description: Applicants will answer questions about what it would mean to be free of student de...
Worrying About How To Pay For College?
When our children were born, back in the late 90s, we thought we were diligent by opening a 529 plan before they turned 1 and contributing to it on a regular basis. Back then, tuition at an eli...
Learning About Financial Aid Isn’t Just For Parents of High School Seniors
Back in 2016, in a huge shift to make it easier to fill out financial aid forms and get financial aid decisions back from colleges earlier, yearly FAFSA forms became available on October 1st in...
Scholarships with August Deadlines
Citizens Bank Undergraduate Scholarship Amount: $2,500 Apply By: August 1, 2019 Description: Scholarship is open to students who are/will be enrolled an undergraduate student in the U.S. during the 20...
How We Afford To Pay For 4 Kids In College At The Same Time
We aren’t rich, but we aren’t destitute either. We have little set aside in college savings and we almost never qualified for need based aid. All this puts us squarely in the middle, like...
Scholarships for High School Seniors: What to Know
Is your family shuffling through piles of private scholarship applications, hoping to put together some additional funding for college? If so, you’re certainly not the only ones. Many families ...
Can You Prevent Scholarship Displacement?
Working with families on securing scholarships, I am always asked whether scholarship displacement can be avoided. I wish there was a black and white answer, however, it’s unfortunately a gray ...
Strategies For Getting Niche and Local Private Scholarships
When it comes to finding extra money for college funding, private scholarship money can certainly come in handy, but it won’t generally be the saving grace that so many pare...