most people dont apply for a scholarship until their parents make them or just dont at all, because their either to lazy or to "busy" aka lazy. but lets go through the scinece of the matter.
lets say you have a job where you work two days a week for 4-5 hours. now if you call off for one of those nights and just sit and apply for scholarships either online or locally how much money do u think you can make. in those five hours you could make over a thousand dollars while if you were just working for minimum wage you would have made about $35, less due to tax.
another great tactic is while applying for scholarships, create an excel page, listing the scholarship, the due date, and a web link. so next year you can reapply for those scholarships and possibly get more money. and it will be easier because you wont have to look.
also apply for the long, annoying scholarships because a lot of people will look at them an automaticcally not apply, therefore increasing youre chances of winning. apply for as many as possible too, because you might get lucky and apply for a scholarship which no one has applied for. its a great way to get easy and free money.
Good ideas :)
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You have a good concept you are just missing some things. When you say to take a day off to work on a scholarship you one aren't making money from your job and risking less pay and possible firing for missing days and asking for too much time off. However, the money you are trying to win while you are taking time off for work isn't guaranteed. Your wasting time and money trying to get unguaranteed money. Scholarships are very hard to get if you try apply for a scholarship that doesn't require much work guaranteed it isn't going to be your best bet because everyone and their mother is going to be applying for that scholarship because they don't really have to do much. Also if you pick national scholarships that aren't very specific then everyone can apply for those and you have less chance of getting those as well. Sorry if I sound offensive I'm just trying to tell you what my guidance counselor so wisely told me.
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what i meant by taking a day off work is taking a day off your busy life to try to get money, if it works out you dont have to spend seven years off your life paying back loans. u didn't understand what i was saying
I like your idea of organizing everything on an excel page. That is a good idea.
However, you shouldn't just say taking one day off and applying ot all these scholarships will definitely get you money. I put a good deal of time and effort into getting scholarships and I got nothing. Not to be the spoilsport, but you'll probably have to put in a lot more than one day's work.
ive given up doing a lot of things just to apply for scholarships, if you have been unlucky in finding scholarships, its not to late, dont give up. try out this website, fastweb.com if you already havent. it worked for me.
If you're "too lazy" to apply for scholarships, do you really care enough to want to go to school?
Lazy people shouldn't be in college. :-/
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Very good ideas. I did he same thing this past year and it helped me stay organized a lot and I received quite a few scholarships.
some good ideas, but they're pretty hopeful. It's doubtful that there's going to be a scholarship that you're the only one applying, unless it's one of those weird ones, where they'll give you money for being over 6 feet tall or something.
And lazy people shouldn't go to colllege, if they aren't going to put the time in for getting into college, then why go at all? In arguement to that, some people honestly really don't have enough time to do scholarships, but... it's kinda rare. Most people are too lazy, and they want everything to be easy. Kinda sad, actually.
and i also liked what you said about organizing them for the next year - i never thought about that - most people probably don't actually. They think the hard part is getting into college and paying for it that first year, and a lot of people don't realize they have to plan ahead for the remainding years of college.