“Dos and Don’ts” When Searching for College Scholarship Money:
- Never pay someone to fill out your financial aid application.
- Ask numerous questions; challenge all promises.
- Have everything documented in writing.
- Check to see if the scholarship is grant based or loan based.
- Scrutinize so-called “college saving programs.”
- Check out the Free Scholarship Search links inside The College Trap.
- Weigh the odds before writing innumerable scholarship application essays.
- Know that only 1% of all financial aid dollars come from private funds.
- Get to know the Financial Aid Administrator at the college.
- Apply for all College Scholarship Money early.
- Don’t believe all the phony offers for free College Money.
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Most student-athletes want to know if they should seek a scholarship with a successful ranked team and big athletic program, or a smaller athletic program with lesser funding, recognition and success, but more individual attention and playing time.
Athletes looking for playing experience at the college level should select the school that fits their athletic and academic abilities.
Women’s college sports programs are rapidly expanding. Since Title IX, nearly all the teams added by the colleges are for women; the dominant sport being soccer.
