Many students make the mistake of assuming that once they do a search they have exhausted all sources for scholarships. The reality is that no matter how many scholarships these websites claim to have in their database none of them even comes close to the total number of scholarships that are available.

Don’t rely on websites as your only means of finding scholarships. If you do you’ll miss some of the best awards that can only be found through your own detective work. (more…)

The Internet puts the world’s biggest library at your fingertips and allows you access to an unprecedented amount of information. It can also be truly frustrating. The problem with searching for scholarships online is that there is no filtering.

Type in the word “scholarship” into a search engine and you’ll get over 100,000 results. Only a tiny fraction of these results will actually be useful to you. (more…)