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Why are scholarships so difficult to find?

I remember how difficult it was for me when I was trying to find money to fund my education. I asked my adviser to show me where I can find scholarship applications. To which she replied, we have a scholarship book! Her tone was one of excitement. She handed me a book full of hundreds of scholarships alphabetically. As I began to read through these, I quickly realized that the majority of these had strict criteria.

After an hour of searching through a book of scholarships, I found one scholarship that I qualified for and had a shot at getting. The scholarship was only for $2,500. My tuition was around $12,000. Just finding enough scholarships to fund my education was going to be extremely time consuming. Furthermore, filling out scholarship applications is time consuming!

At the time I had to deal with it. But you don’t have to. We have built a scholarship search that allows you to filter the hundreds of scholarships by the things that matter. You can see all the scholarships available to someone who has a 3.0 GPA or higher. Of these, you can see which ones are available to computer science majors. And of these, you can see which have a requirement of residency or not.

By structuring thousands of scholarships in this manner, you can drill down which scholarships you qualify for in a matter of minutes.  Our scholarship search allows you to filter scholarships by education level, area of interest, grade point average, enrollment, and residency.

Now only can you browse by criteria, but you can search through thousands of scholarships by keyword.

Visit our scholarships search.

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