“Money for College” is a phrase that is coming up quite frequently in these days of rising gas prices, rising tuition prices, and a looming recession. However, the question still eludes most of us. How can we make money for college? Many students think that those e-mails they get about scholarships and loans are bogus and that they should not worry about that stuff right now. Those students realize how wrong they were when they realize what a financial burden college is. Today, i hope that i can enlighten some of you with tips on making money for college. There are three tips to earing those dollar bills, and i will go through each and every one of them. Lets get started!

Tip # 1: The number one thing that students neglect when searching for scholarships is the ones that offer lower sums of money. The reality about those scholarships is that they make a huge impact in your finances. All students are attracted to those scholarships offering plum amounts of money, ranging from $1,000 to $100,000 (Siemens Scholarship). While the bigger amount scholarships offer greater rewards, the chance of a student receiving them is very low due to the influx of other students applying.The key to getting scholarship money is applying for those $100, $250, and even $500 scholarships.

In the end, you will understand why you doing that was significant because that money adds up. So apply for that $500 McDonald’s scholarship your neighborhood location is offering, because chances are, most students wont even think of doing so. A great resource for scholarship information, jobs, and college, is FastWeb.com.

Tip # 2: Your school and local libraries are great sources of information pertaining to scholarships, and ways to earn money for college. Utilize them! The more information that you find, the better your chances are for earning money for college. Probably the greatest resource, waiting to be utilized, is at your school; your guidance counselor. He/she will have the most information relating to scholarships and college. Most of the time, they will inform you about scholarships that go unused every year! The tricky part is probably finding the office of your counselor. From there on, your financial problems should slowly start to decline.

Tip # 3: All i can say for this last tip is search. If you search, search, and search, i guarantee that you will have more money than you started out with in your pockets (for most of you that may be quite a lot). Don’t just explore one website, or one resource because you think it has some good information; look for more! And with that note, i will give you a list of the best websites(i think) to find scholarship information on.

List:

1. FindTuition

2. FastWeb

3. Scholarships.com

4. SchoolSoup

5. EducationConnection

Hope that helped with your monetary issues!