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From the blog:

I’ve touched on this subject in the past, yet every year around this time, it seems to roll around again. So as the end of 2016 approaches, let’s re-visit two of the main descriptive terms for equine-related educational experiences you might encounter and what they mean in context with your own personal college and educational search: Read More

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Your child concentrated on one sport from an early age, you spent a lot of money to give him or her the best coaches and biggest advantages, and you did it — you beat the odds, and your child is one of the 2 percent of high school athletes that got an offer to play competitively at a college that offers athletic scholarships.

Guess what? You’re still paying big bucks to send your kid to college. NCAA rules, designed to spread talent more evenly across schools, limits scholarships for every sport, and except for a few sports (football, men’s and women’s basketball, notably), nobody gets a full ride from day one. Often they don’t even get that in year four. Read More

Scholarship Applications – How Do I Make Them Work in My Favor?You’ve seen the headlines that scream “Student Received $100K in Scholarships” and “Win Millions in Scholarship Dollars.” For high school seniors, the idea of paying for higher education with bags of free money handed over from charities and corporations is certainly more appealing than cutting a check from the college savings account or taking out loans, but each year, the headlines seem to get bigger and the amount of dollars available for the taking seems to get smaller.How should you go about the search? Stick to these primary tactics:

• Start early. Just like your college search, because you will begin to apply for the scholarships as a high school senior, you should begin to identify the ones you’ll qualify for as early as junior year. Start locally first with businesses, your high school, church, your parents’ employers, and clubs or organizations that you and your family belong to. When the pool of applicants for scholarship dollars is limited to those in your region, you stand a better chance of winning one than when you compete against students from fifty states in the national scholarship competitions.

• Target carefully. Scholarships aren’t just limited to top athletes or scholars, there are also a host of them available to students who want to study in certain fields, participate in certain types of outside activities (volunteering, fundraising for organizations, work experience, etc.). If you know what you want to study in college, you can research scholarships for students with interests in those areas.

• Meet the guidelines. If the scholarship requires an interview, an application essay, or letters of recommendation, make sure you not only have all of these items available when you submit your application, but that you get everything turned in on time. Scholarship committees are strict with both requirements and deadlines and you’d hate to miss out because you were one day late!

• Don’t stop applying. Scholarships for undergraduate students aren’t just awarded to high school seniors as they make the transition – millions of scholarship dollars are available to all undergraduate students, which means that you can re-apply for certain scholarships each year you are enrolled in college! Many students forget this fact and wind up leaving money on the table.

Searching for scholarships can be a time consuming process, but the rewards are great. Put the hours in now and you may find that they pay off (literally!) after graduation.

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