By Max
Scholarships are intimidating
Affording college can be pretty pricey, if you aren’t going to a community college. Scholarships and grants help with that!
FAFSA is a federal student aid program that will give you “grants” for your schooling based off of your needs, and your parents’ income.
Scholarships.com will help you search for scholarships based on your GPA, Location, interests, SAT scores, and whether or not your parents graduated college. This might seem intimidating, but there are a ton of options. If your grades maybe aren’t the best or you cant do sports, you still have tons of options!
Grants vs. loans vs. scholarships
Grants are essentially money given to you and your school on your behalf, to pay for courses and materials. You do not have to pay grants back after you graduate.
Loans are money you borrow from a bank or a private scholarship company that will collect interest and you have to pay back once you graduate.
Scholarships are similar to grants but are usually awarded based on skill, grades, and other qualifiers. There are scholarships for all sorts of things: art, sports, red headed students, left handed students (yes, really).
Helpful links:
https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/scholarships
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This post was originally created by Max, on September 25th, 2022 in The Homeschooler’s Discord server, and edited by Anne. Learn more about Max and Anne on our About Us page. Cover photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash.
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