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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!
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