The truth is that your child needs to actively search for college scholarships unless your child has been offered a scholarship to cover all of the costs associated with attending college. The other truth is that there are so many sources of information, website, apps, and books promising to be the one-stop shop for scholarship opportunities. How do you help your child sift through all of the fluff?

Discover what it really takes to find more scholarships that actually apply to your child in under an hour!
Can you imagine knowing what you are looking for but have no clue of where to find it? It’s beyond frustrating because you not only want to find it, but don’t want to spend anymore time than necessary to find it. This is exactly how the scholarship searching process is for many students and their families. But, the great news is that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Your child needs a scholarship search roadmap because no two students nor academic abilities are the same. In other words, following generic scholarship advice will only take your child so far. To go all the way (and save time and frustration), your child needs to create a method that consistently gets results.
Get the step-by-step method to learn how to find more scholarships tailored to your child in less than one hour!

Step 1:
First, your child needs to create a personalized scholarship resume. A scholarship resume contains all of your child’s qualities, special talents, volunteer experience, and leadership experience. This resume represents the endless possibilities of scholarship opportunities available to your child.
The best way to create a scholarship resume is to have your child spend time brainstorming his or her special talents (singing, poetry, etc), qualities, and experience. Spend time creating your own list to help your child capture all pertinent information. Don’t forget to include your industry or association memberships, local organizations, and your parents’ industry or association memberships as well.

Step 2:
The next step is to organize the information by categories (talents, association memberships, etc). If your child has items that won’t fit with the other categories, feel free to create a general categories.

Finally:
The final step is to now go to search engines and local sources (library, your child’s school counselor, etc.). Your child will take his or her scholarship resume and search for scholarships that pertain to the specific talent, skill, or association. After completing this specific search, your child will need to search for general scholarships (gender, desired college major, geographic location, etc.).

Welcome to the Scholarships for Graduate Students area!

Are you frustrated with trying to find scholarships to help you lower the costs of college?

Are you overwhelmed with trying to fit time to find scholarships into your busy school schedule?

Do you wish there was a much easier way to find scholarships and increase your chances of winning them?

If you can answer yes to any of the questions above, I have great news for you! There are scholarships for graduate students. The key is to understand that these scholarship opportunities are available all year long. While this may sound like you will have to put in tons of work all year long, it is actually the opposite. I strongly believe that you need a scholarship system in place to help you find specific scholarships for you in less time. When you know exactly where to look for scholarships that are specific to you, you will not only save time but end your frustration as well.
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The best way to find scholarships specific to you is to look for merit scholarships that match your skills and talents.

If you are in need of scholarships in the next 3-6 months, I encourage you to follow these tips that I share here.

Also, review these two scholarship resources: http://oedb.org/graduate-scholarship and oedb.org/phd-scholarship/