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Summary:

Free money is not just for straight-A students and athletes anymore. This streetwise guide helps every student get the funds needed for college.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Meet your new neighbor
• The scholarship lady
• Recipe for success
• Neighborly advice from your instructor
• 2. Invest in the best, you!
• Leave luck in the dust
• Your past and present
• Team of champions
• Your future
• 3. Follow your dreams, and others will too!
• Document your dream
• Achieve your dream
• Bull's eye
• Whose dream is it?
• 4. College prep
• Traditional college-prep experiences
• Alternative college-prep experiences
• 5. Behind the scenes
• Reality check
• Your plan

• Your world headquarters
• Your team and its role
• Final plan
• 6. Load up your backpack
• Scholarship worksheet brainstorming
• Scholarship worksheet format
• Scholarship worksheet review
• Your scholarship résumé
• 7. The search is on
• Getting started
• Breaking it down
• 8. Apply now!
• Fund-raising 101
• Assessment 101
• Marketing 101
• Applications 101
• Recommendations 101
• Essays 101
• Persistence 101
• 9. The next round
• You are a finalist
• Interviewing 101
• Lucky you
• 10. Techno tools and traps
• Phone
• E-mail
• Networking and sharing
• Blogs
• Search engines
• Scholarship databases
• Electronic applications
• 11. The buck stops here ... and here ... and here
• Scholarship award announcement
• Verification and terms
• Thank you
• Recognition
• Your high school
• Your college
• College A
• College B
• The Bursar
• Keeping the money flowing
• Negotiation 101
• 12. Scholarship service projects
• Scholarship special event
• Scholarship clinic
• Scholarship information source
• Event, clinic, or source?
• 13. College and beyond
• Department scholarships
• Invest in yourself, again!
• 14. Scholarship success boot camp
• You are in charge
• The commitment
• Boot camp prerequisites
• Boot camp in six steps
• Meet me after class, and bring a friend
• Share your story
• Don't stress
• What only you can do
• Appendix A. Helpful Websites
• Appendix B. State higher-education agencies
• Appendix C. Glossary.

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Author/Creator:

Stezala, Kimberly

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Scholarships 101: the real-world guide to getting cash for college [by Stezala, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Scholarships 101 [by Stezala, K.] (New York : American Management Association, ©2008 — ISBN 9780814409817; ISBN 0814409814; LCCN 2008012097)

Subjects:

Scholarships — United States

Universities and colleges — United States — Admission

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

LB2338 .S82 2008eb

ISBNs:

9780814412916 (electronic bk.)
0814412912 (electronic bk.)
9780814409817 (pbk.)
0814409814 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008012097 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

275119829

Other Control Numbers:

EBC408776 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp2906880