Where to find the best scholarships
How to Get College Scholarships | Tips, Tricks, and My Experience!
I didn't have the best test scores I
wasn't really a fantastic athlete and I
didn't always have straight A's but I
still managed to get over 78,000 dollars
in college scholarships
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today's video I'm gonna be talking to
you guys about how to burn free money
for college in other words how to apply
for get and receive college scholarships
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in the description box below I'm gonna
be talking to you guys about how I
managed to get this for your money for
college and I figured this would be a
great video to share with you guys
especially if you're going into your
senior year of high school because that
is pretty much when you have to apply
for them it's kind of a lot to do with
your school work with your
extracurriculars so time management is
going to be your best friend
let's just go ahead and get right into
my advice and as always I will be using
my iPad for my notes if I'm looking down
that is why before we do actually get
into the video I just want to do a
little disclaimer I am NOT trying to
brag at all about what I have earned I'm
just trying to share information with
you guys and share advice based on my
experience because I was not expecting
this at all going in my senior year of
high school and I'm just trying to show
you what the possibilities are for going
to college and paying for college if you
like myself or someone who cannot afford
it and are even wondering for you to be
able to go because of financial aspects
basically I personally earned just about
12 scholarships to be attending college
some of them are 4 years some of them
are 1 year some of them are through the
college itself some of them are merit
from the college I'm going to be talking
about all of that but yeah I pretty much
earned 12 in total and they are about
like 70
and dollars over the course of four
years of college I don't know how we did
it but before I actually get started
like into the advice I want to kind of
explain like the terminology I'm going
to be talking about so first you have
college scholarships and you have
external scholarships so what your
college scholarships are those are
scholarships to come directly from the
college it you're going to be attending
you are chosen for those scholarships
when you apply to met so basically your
college merit or financial aid awards
from psychologists are normally strictly
based on your qpa and your test scores
now I would loan those people who had a
great qpa
I got a few B's here and there like
every year but test scores was not was
not me I would just not go at
standardized tech I went to prep classes
at my school it didn't help me I studied
like crazy it was just kind of to the
point but like I got high I had a good
enough score to get into college if I
didn't get extra money for it wasn't a
huge deal to me
exit arrow scholarships are things that
you apply for what a separate
application that you have to submit
documentation which normally some kind
of business or some kind of
organizational mark gives them Burger
King Wendy's and then normally schools
have like local organizations that also
give scholarships every single year high
school personally has a lot of those
organizations so hopefully your school
is kind of similar but if not there are
times of national scholars because you
can also apply for what I personally did
and was shocked by the results so my
number one piece of advice is just to
apply for everything because you
literally never know like what it could
honestly happen and I personally apply
for this one scholarship on a limb it
was a national scholarship
it was the for the horatio al Burris
oshiete applied for it on a limb I
didn't think I was going to get anything
for it
and I came out of it with ten thousand
dollar thing I was the first person in
my school's history to receive that
scholarship so was a super cool I mean
if you things like yeah I don't have the
best QP Annie and my test scores are
crap I have no service like just apply
because you literally never know I want
it all so we're we touch on super
quickly the things that are considered
when you are applying these external
scholarships
so first of all your GPA is pretty
important I'm not gonna lie to you but
even if you aren't a straight-a student
like you can still probably got them
also your income level also really
consider that they want they want to
give their money obviously to someone
who can use their money and not someone
who doesn't really need it is also
heavily considered but if you are on the
higher end of the spectrum don't let it
discourage you from applying because you
never know they might still give it to
you if you are on the lower end of the
income level like myself it works out
for you in your favor um but it is not
the only thing considered as well
community service any strong activity
she is also super important if you don't
know what I mean by an activity she I
basically mean like a resume and on your
resume or activity sheet it should say
all our community service activities all
of your activities you did in high
school like clubs or sports musical
chorus band that kind of thing it should
say that and then any offices that you
have and any of those organizations as
well also your major um and what college
you're going to can also be a factor
there were some scholarships that I
personally couldn't apply for because
they wanted people to go to certain
colleges that was one and then certain
majors also had a lot of certain
scholarships as well diversity
especially in these larger national
competitions they are looking for a
diverse group of students they do unless
there are speculations some do have
speculations where they want like a
certain race I started ethnicity or a
certain background but for the most part
I love them do you want a diverse group
of recipient and then also your test
scores normally do you have to submit
them but I don't think they really
looked at that much and also your
letters of recommendations I personally
recommend getting at least two letters I
personally had two and then there is one
so I applied for me I needed three so I
had to just ask someone to make them in
the quickly for me although they're
pretty much like all of the aspects
oh and your essay my next tip since
you're going to be applying for
literally every scholarship is to create
one strong essay that can easily be
adjusted for multiple scholarship
applications too much a lot of
scholarship applications ask you for
information about yourself I like your
activities highlight
your service projects I personally did a
day of kindness service project where I
delivered Valentine's Day cards to
special needs children in my school
district in my community it was part of
my distinguished young woman's service
project think I had that in every single
essay I did because it was a huge thing
and that was also a huge service project
that I did by myself and I organized the
entire thing so I'd wanted to highlight
every essay it also touched on other
organizations that I'm volunteering for
such as like the Salvation Army we're
all division some local things as well I
also talked about some of my favorite
activities like my sports I got into
tennis and cheerleaders highlight
yourself talk about yourself a little
bit just make yourself some really good
basically what I'm trying to say if you
create one strong essay that really
encompasses you and some things that
you're going to have to like answer
certain questions you can kind of
incorporate those questions into your
essay elsewhere now someone told me to
do this and I didn't listen basically I
was doing so much to kind of got to the
point like oh I'm just gonna use that
essay because it's pretty much the same
thing so even if you don't make one
strong essay you're going to get to that
point eventually my next piece of advice
is to proofread your essay or anything
you are submitting to the committee have
a teacher do it put it through Graham
really real quick just make sure it's
proof read and that they can read what
you are saying basically what I'm trying
to say fourth piece of advice is to
double-check the required documentation
needed because some things are going to
need tax forms to prove your income
you're also going to need activity sheet
a certain amount of letters of
recommendation literally every
scholarship in the world is different
just double-check what you need make
sure you have a Oh an order paper clip
it put in that manila envelope turn it
in to your counselor or mailing out
yourself you forget something also your
application might just be throwing out
the window my next piece of advice is do
not let any rejection discourage you I
was like out of point for a while like I
kept getting scholarships and not like
my first rejection letter and I always
like so crushed by it and like I totally
understand being upset because like you
did work hard on it
you spent time on it but don't let it
discourage you I didn't discourage me
but I know some people they were like oh
I didn't have this one someone applying
for this one because I'm not gonna get
it anyway and like I said you literally
never know like literally every
scholarship looks for different things
and they're candidates so my sixth piece
of advice is to get your letters of
recommendation early I recommend getting
them honestly as soon as school starts
like if you know like your principal
really Wow or like certain teachers that
you want to write you letters get them
earlier rather than later because you're
going to eventually need them and you
don't want to be like waiting to turn on
an application because they haven't
given you their letter yet Simon piece
of advice is to turn your applications
in ASAP I was kind of guilty of not
doing this
I personally turn them in like right at
the deadline turn the vein get them done
as soon as you can you'll be so much
less stressed out if they're in late
like they won't accept them like they
normally have to be postmarked by
certain day or if they are online they
can see when you turn it in so make sure
you turn it in at the right time also
really quick know also check your email
and whatever email you put on these
applications make sure it is clear make
sure it is spam free and check it all
the time because they might send you
like hey like this is missing from your
application like can you send us this
like we need it for judging yeah check
my email that much until like I realize
how important it was and they might
notify you if you won them in your
emails as well also search your color
that you're going to for extra
scholarships I happen to just be
googling extra scholarships through my
college and I found one for College of
Communication information and it was the
first year they were doing the
scholarship so basically I had to like
make like a website portfolio submit an
essay on why deserve the scholarship and
then I went I did it I went about with
my business I worked really long and
hard on her I literally worked on that
website since December like during
Christmas break on that it was actually
a tech week for my musical which would
have been like the last week in March
and then my mom called me she's like hey
I got a letter from Kent like told me to
open it and it was like yeah like it's
financially just sound like stupid from
like I don't know the admissions office
something
I don't really know I always got like a
lot of junk mail so I was like yeah go
ahead open it then she was like oh my
gosh and I was like what are you oh my
gosh thing about them Tuesday you got
$25,000 extra from Kent State just
because I did that scholarship and I was
like literally shaking I was like wow
and in my essays always by like with
something kind of like inspirational and
uplifting and I also have seen this
other scholarship reading pieces of
everyone's essays like out loud and I
was like oh like what are they gonna
read from mine and mine was laughs
because I was actually there
valedictorian scholar meaning I was the
top recipient out that scholarship
talked about how like everything happens
the reason everyone is here for a reason
or found like life is given to each of
us and that we should like do the most
with it and make the most of our lives
like obviously but I just kind of end up
with like that inspirational message and
I think it really stuck in people's
minds because like the guy even said but
he was a drunk to score some he said
this like excerpt stuck in my mind
coming from an eighteen-year-old senior
high school I have some kind of a hook
either in the beginning or ending of
your essay I think would be good to
really like make them remember your uh
saying your application I think that is
another compete so just really quickly
in case you guys were wondering I want
to touch on like some of the other
national scholars I receive just so you
guys know they are out there each one
from Walmart because my dad actually
works for Walmart so I received the
Walmart pendant scholarship for $13,000
which was also a lot of money I also
received the energized national
scholarship award and I was a
semifinalist so I received $3,200 from
NHS did apply for though I applied for
Burger King I didn't get it I applied
for Wendy's high school Heisman which is
of a athletics wimpy or an athlete but
it was a good one to check out and that
application should open around the
October yeah so there are also like a
lot of websites you can search
scholarships on I know scholarship out
is one I think the other one is like
fast web scholarships and they have like
really kind of like random thing
but like you can just submit like a
little paragraph and then like you get
scholarship it's kind of interesting
they also have like monthly drawings for
like $5,000 but yeah if you are a senior
in high school I wish you the best of
luck in this process it's kind of
lengthy I'm not gonna lie to you it's
kind of a lot to take in at one time but
you'll be fine you will navigate it and
you will do it I hope you guys enjoyed
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