When I was a high school counselor I would have a
lot of parents and students ask, “How do you do scholarships?” I would give some common sense answers, but I
never felt like I was really helping them very well. Then I discovered
scholarshipmastery.com.
Scholarshipmastery.com is actually a free,
non-credit scholarship course. It was
designed by Adam Carroll. Adam is a
financial literacy educator who spoke at my high school when I was a high
school counselor. He had a very common
sense approach to money and scholarships.
His goal is for every student who uses his system is to be debt free
when they finish college. When he was a
high school senior, Adam’s dad told him that for every dollar in scholarships
he received, he would give him 50 cents.
Dad knew Adam was motivated by the extra dollars that he could get, so
he went after scholarships aggressively.
Scholarshipmastery.com is free. All you have to do is enter your first name
and email address into the website, and you have access to four free videos
online. The videos are entitled:
“Finding the Funding” (43 minutes);” Applying with Ease” (15 minutes); “Killer
Essays” (34 minutes); and “Acing the Interview” (28 minutes). It is not required to watch all four videos
at one sitting.
Adam gives a lot of tips of how to find sources of
scholarships and how to utilize parents to help with the work. Of particular value is his instruction on
writing a good scholarship essay by using mind mapping and how to structure an
essay. The “Acing the Interview” video
is helpful for preparing for a scholarship interview, but it could also double
as good instruction for a job interview as well. He has a list of commonly asked questions in
interviews along with a workbook that is available for download as organizers
for the whole scholarship process.
Check it out!
If you are serious about minimizing student loans and maximizing your efforts
in applying for scholarships, go to scholarshipmastery.com.
Steve - ICAN Council Bluffs Center
