WiseChoice Widgets
At WiseChoice, we are constantly developing new and helpful tools for students and educators. Our goal is to provide very accurate information, and to make searching for colleges and scholarships as simple as possible. So let us introduce you to our newest tools, recently unveiled by our innovative development team. We’re proud to offer three new widgets, one for WiseChoice.com and two for our sister site, ScholarshipExperts.com. Teachers, counselors, students or anyone with a website can choose and customize a widget with our Widget Wizard, grab the code and paste it into their site. Best of all, these new widgets are all available for free – there is no cost to place these time-saving tools on your site! Read the rest of this entry »
African-American History Month Scholarship Funds Focus
In recognition of African-American History Month, we would like to highlight a few of the many organizations working to create a better future by providing students with higher education opportunities:
The United Negro College Fund “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
The United Negro College Fund administers over 400 scholarship and internship programs at its 39 member colleges. Each year, the UNCF provides financial assistance to over 60,000 college students to help further their education. The organization hosts an annual Evening with the Stars, which is the nation’s largest televised fundraiser for minority education. The event has raised upwards of $200 million dollars to date. Two of the fund’s key programs are the Gates Millennium Scholars Program and the UNCF-Merck Science Initiative. Read the rest of this entry »
Where to Find and Apply for College Scholarships
When it comes to searching and applying for scholarships, many students and parents are unsure about where to look. Here are five places you should always turn to when seeking free money for college:
1. Searching and Applying for Scholarships Online
Use reliable scholarship websites that offer updated scholarship data and a profile-based matching system. Time-saving scholarship matching services, like the Scholarship Finder provided by WiseChoice, will use the information you supply about your grades, hobbies, awards, family background and career plans to match you with scholarships that you can compete for and possibly win. As long as you keep your profile information current, you can check back each month for new and updated scholarship matches and information.
There are so many scholarship programs out there, you won’t find one single, all-inclusive web site of all possible scholarships. So it is to your benefit to sign up for more than one of these online services and monitor your results regularly throughout high school and your college years. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Apply for Private Scholarships?
My parents paid for my college education. I never knew what a big deal that was until I had to pay for my own graduate school tuition (and by pay, I mean pay back lots of loans). So when my parents encouraged me to apply for college scholarships, I probably shouldn’t have blown it off as much as I did. But I was a high school senior with activities and a job and a social life, which didn’t leave any time to search for scholarships, let alone apply for them with all their required essays and letters of recommendation. My mom kept telling me about so-and-so who got a scholarship for being left-handed, or playing the oboe, or being able to type with his toes. There’s nothing interesting or fantastic about me so unless there were millionaires giving away money “just because,” I didn’t see the point. Read the rest of this entry »
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