ULoop recently published a summary of the 5 Types of Scholarships that students should look for. Here is the summary of each type: 1. Academic and Merit Scholarships   Academic scholarships have a variety of requirements; one may require a minimum GPA, while another will require a specific score on the SAT or ACT. These Read More

One of my pet peeves are these companies that entice students on the web with Scholarship dollars and at the end of the registration process they spring on the students that there is a fee to apply. Your students should never have to pay to apply for scholarships (which are offered free). Companies like Fastweb Read More

A High School Senior class in Memphis, Tennessee at Whitehaven High School collected more than $80 million in scholarship offers this year. They had 40 students that received scholarship offers of more than $1 million dollars. How did they do it? Labeled as the “Million Dollar Tigers” for their success, Whitehaven students have taken to Read More

After your students have applied for a scholarship, the selection committee may want to learn more about them through a scholarship interview. Most of the time, scholarship providers clearly state in the application that they hold interviews as a part of the scholarship process, so usually this shouldn’t come as a surprise. If they have Read More

Hechinger Report published a very detailed article yesterday that outlined how many scholarship sites are selling data to Colleges and other marketers. The Scholarship sites typically have two models: 1. They charge students a fee to register and gain access to scholarship data or 2. They provide scholarship information for free but then sell the Read More