• Find them and ask

• FIRST, Are they looking for me?

• Second, Am I willing to do what they are asking?

• Print the info and decide when to work them

• Read the info from beginning to end with a highlighter in your hand

• Highlight important stuff

• Put info in month you plan to work them

• Keep your info in 3-ring binder divided by months

• Move forward every time you pick up the binder

• Keep copies

• Quality, not quantity

• Fill out the applications completely.
• Print legibly or type.
• Submit all requested information.
• Read directions thoroughly and make sure you follow them
• Don’t be in the first culling!
• When you start to compose your essay, write down exactly what they say about the essay.
• Then just brainstorm. Write down everything you can think of concerning the topic.
• Then go back and organize your ideas into a fluid concept. This seems to be the hardest part for most people. You just have to start somewhere!
• Start with your graded papers
• Read directions thoroughly
• Make everything you submit clear, concise and positive
• PROOFREAD! And ask someone else to proofread your work.
• Errors (structural, grammatical or spelling) will count against you – use the Writing Center
• Keep your original reference letters (sending copies) so you don’t have to keep asking for new ones
• Remember you are trying to get some organization to give you money for school, so everything you do should be geared towards convincing them of this.

• Federal sites
• State sites
• Your school sites
• “Outside” sites
• Local sites
• National search programs
• Professional organizations

• Just do it! You can’t win if you don’t try!
• Like everything else, the more you DO the better you will get at it.
• See this as more than just the money – there are opportunities and connections attached to all these scholarships.
• This is a skill you will use all your life.
• The Financial aid office is happy to help you with applying for scholarships.
• Good luck!

• http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/grants.jsp?tab=funding  – individual federal grants on this page
• http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/othersources.jsp?tab=funding  – individual links to other federal scholarships and grant programs
• http://studentaid2.ed.gov/getmoney/fin_aid_wizard – federal database of scholarships they have researched; outside scholarships

• http://www.collegefortexans.com/cfbin/tofa.cfm?Kind=GS  – Texas (and federal) grants
• http://www.collegefortexans.com/cfbin/tofa.cfm?Kind=PGS  – outside scholarships that the state of Texas has researched for you
• http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SHE  – other states sites (if you aren’t from Texas)

• http://www.schreiner.edu/financial_aid/scholarships.html  - individual scholarships
• Watch your e-mails for outside scholarship notifications from financial aid office!

• Local librarian
• Local non-profit organizations
• Local foundations
• Your employers or your parents’ employers
• Your church

• Attached to your major (may be several of these), industry, or career
• A reference book in SU library on professional organizations
• Googled “accounting professional organizations” and got 76 organizations!
• Scholarship books (lots of these and we have one in financial aid office)
• http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/majors.phtml  - scholarships related to majors

• On-line scholarship search engines (know who is giving you the information
• http://www.fastweb.com  - database with 1.5 million scholarships
• http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/unusual.phtml#characteristics  – unusual scholarships
• http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/prestigious.phtml  - prestigious scholarships
• http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/average.phtml  - scholarships for average students
• http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/service.phtml  - community service scholarships
• http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/age13.phtml  - scholarships for kids
• http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/disabled.phtml  - scholarships for disabilities
• http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/female.phtml  - scholarships and databases for female students and female graduate students
• http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/minority.phtml  - scholarships for minority students
• http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/sports.phtml  - sports related scholarships
• http://apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch_ss/welcome.jsp  - College Board’s FUND FINDER a database of 3,300 scholarships
• http://www.scholarships.com  - database with 2.7 million scholarships
• http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/other.phtml  - other databases - lender sites

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