Scholarship Websites; Search Free or Don't Search
Many scholarship websites and other financial aid search companies, both online
and off, offer to match students with sources of financial aid for a fee. Some even
take you through the entire search process and only tell you when you’ve finished
this tedious process that you must pay in order to see your results. Why pay for
this information when you can use a free scholarship search website offering that
same information? By definition, scholarship information is public, so these "pay
to play" sites can’t tell you anything you can’t find somewhere else for free. There
are a lot of scholarship websites out there, but you need to be careful which ones
you use. It is important that you only visit scholarship websites you know are trustworthy.
Look for sites that are associated with other reputable organizations. Find out
how long they have been around and whether there have ever been complaints against
them registered with the FTC or BBB.
Naturally, we recommend using Scholarships.com's free college scholarship
search. We offer our service absolutely free of charge and have built and
maintain our scholarship database in association with those providing the actual
scholarships. This means we have the most current, accurate information about a
given scholarship. And reputable? Scholarships.com is among the most reputable sites
of any variety on the web today and one of only a few reputable sites in our particular
field. Founded in 1998, we are members of BBB Online and TrustE. We also have earned
and proudly display the NACAC Seal of Approval and are members of both NACAC (National
Association for College Admission Counseling) and NSPA (National Scholarship Providers
Association).
The scholarship websites and other links listed below may prove useful to you as
well:
Remember to start your search for scholarships early, as many scholarships have
early deadlines. We recommend you begin in your junior year of high school, or at
least the beginning of the year you will be graduating high school/entering college.