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Scholarship Displacement: The Heartbreaking Truth Every Student Should Know About How Colleges Can Treat Outside Scholarships
Understanding Scholarship Displacement: A Hard-Learned Lesson from Our Family’s College Journey Navigating the financial aspects of...
Finding Private Scholarships for College: Tips for Maximizing Your Aid
Finding Private Scholarships for College Paying for college is a big challenge, especially with tuition and...
How Much Financial Aid Can You Get? Cracking the Code on College Costs
As a parent, you want the best for your child's future, and higher education is...
Understanding the PSAT: What High Schoolers Need to Know for Success
If you're a high school student, you've probably heard of the PSAT. But what is...
College Aid Pro’s $1,000 No Essay Scholarship And Award Analyzer Update
We wanted to share a quick update with our families on our $1,000 No Essay...
What is A Financial Safety School? Should You Have at Least One on Your College List?
A “financial safety” school is a college that you know your family can afford. It...
Acceptance Letters VS Financial Aid Letters
What's the Difference Between an Acceptance Letter and a Financial Aid Letter? https://youtu.be/wAZJZKREB4w Acceptance Letters An acceptance letter...
Weighted and Unweighted GPAs – Let’s Clarify Their Impact on Merit Money
Merit Scholarships: How do Colleges look at Weighted and Unweighted GPAs? Merit scholarships are a great...
Can You Ask A College For More Free Scholarship Money?
What happens when you receive a scholarship award – but it’s still not enough to...
CAP Report Card – Merit Scholarship Transparency Rankings
The Importance of Transparency College Aid Pro’s (CAP) Mission is to End the Student Debt Crisis...
Getting a Division 1 Athletic Scholarship
Getting a Division 1 athletic scholarship is not an easy task. However, if your student...
Athletic Scholarships 101
Athletic scholarships for college are often misunderstood and assumed to be more available than they...
What are National Merit Scholarships?
Most families in the college application process have heard the term "National Merit Scholarship" float...
Do National Merit Finalists Get Full-Ride Scholarships?
Do National Merit finalists get full-ride scholarships? In some cases, yes! Previously, we wrote about what ACT...
Can My Kid Get a Full-Ride Scholarship?
I was listening to a financial call-in program the other day and the topic of...
What Are Talent Merit Scholarships?
Does your student have a special skill they have developed for years? Have they practiced...
What Are Competitive Merit Scholarships?
When most people think about merit scholarships, they think of a competitive elimination process where...
A National Merit Scholarship Success Story
I always love when parents share a merit scholarship success story! This one is from...
How to Find Full Ride Scholarships
Full-ride scholarships pay the full price of attending a college. This usually includes tuition, fees,...
Top Two Resources for Finding Automatic Merit Scholarships
With the cost of college continuously on the rise, many college-bound students and their parents...
5 Things Parents Need to Know About Private Scholarships
This was originally written for and published by Saving For College, adapted and expanded for...
The 3 Best Free Online Resources for Athletic Recruiting
The best resources for athletic recruiting vary from athletic recruiting service websites to school sites...
Ways to Pay for College: 5 Types of Merit-Based Scholarships
Merit scholarships can be one of the best ways to pay for college, especially if...
How to Get a Full-Ride Scholarship from Your ACT or SAT Score
Wanting to get your student a free college education? Who doesn’t! The fact is, there...