Grants...Scholarship?

There are a couple of websites where you can do some free searches for scholarships. Never pay for it when you can get it free. You'll also need to fill out some information for the profile. They are:

www.fastweb.com
www.scholarshipexperts.com

I'll be doing the same thing next year. Good luck!

J.

I'd check first with your school's financial aid office. You are much more likely to be able to get a loan than a scholarship. However, schools do have some amount of moneys that they give away. UMKC, for example, has a Women's Center that gives away small grants to women in need.

There is a lot of government assistance - I don't believe much of it "give away" though. More loans. You can usually get the government form at your school's financial aid office, but it may also be available on line at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/.

Also, if you haven't already discovered it, I would also register with www.fastweb.com. You fill out a profile and they send you new grant and scholarship opportunities that match your profile as they become available. However, know that you will be competing with hundreds of thousands of students for these grants.

Also take a look at Scholarship America, a foundation that tries to help the families of employees of certain companies to be able to get a post-high school education. Even if nobody in your family works for one of the supporting corporations, they also do have some help for the general public. http://scholarshipamerica.org/students/open_scholarships....

There are so many other web sites, that instead of sending you a bunch of sites, I'll just send you the URL of the google search I did. Then you can look at each site one at a time and see whether you think it's valuable for you or not: http://www.google.com/search?q=grants+and+scholarships+co...

If nothing else, try a work-study program - a job on campus that pays you enough so you can get by, and often is a pretty lax job with time to do homework. Good luck and don't give up on your dream!

Go to www.fastweb.com. You will fill out a profile and the site will select possible grants and scholarships that you can apply for.

http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

This should be your first stop. It is the government and can do a lot for you.

The first thing you must do is fill out the FAFSA. If you google that then you can fill out the forms on line and have tax info handy. Even if your spouse makes too much, or if this for a child, loans and scholarships want you to have it filled out first. If you are a single parent then you will probably get enough in pell grants to pay for your, or your childs, college and the farther into school the more they will give you.

I agree with the above but don't bother looking into pell grants if you are in grad school. Even as a single mom I was able to get no assistance that I won't have to pay back once I am done with school.

Good luck! It's a challenge but I love it!

I would ask the admissions officer of the college you are wanting to go to. They should help you fill out forms and tell you what programs you qualify for on the spot! They are more than happy to help you!

Do you know which college you want to go to? Are you grad or undergrad? Do you want fulltime or parttime?

I actually work in college recruiting for a local university and I would be glad to help. Just give me a little more details.