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Student body presidents with high grade point averages are not the only students that win college scholarships.  To be a college scholarship winner, the key is to NOT do what all the other applicants are doing.  These 5 tips will help any student, even the average ones, win college scholarships.

Online scholarship searches are great, but my first tip is to NOT just use the internet to find your scholarships.  There are so many other great sources out there where you will find a ton of scholarships that many other students will never find.  As a result, you will improve your chances of winning right from the start!  It’s okay to use online scholarship searches, just don’t make them your only method of finding scholarships to apply for.

Should you apply for big scholarships or little scholarships?  How do you decide which scholarships to apply for?  The answer is:  All the ones that you qualify for!  Big scholarships are wonderful, but will also have the greatest amount of students applying for them.  Students think that by winning a few big scholarships, they won’t have to do the work in applying for several smaller ones.  The problem with this thinking is that you have a better chance of winning smaller scholarships than you do the bigger ones!  Go ahead and apply for both big and little scholarships and don’t make the decision based on how much you can win for each scholarship.

Don’t be afraid to apply for need-based scholarships.  Need-based scholarships are those that look at your income (or your parents) as one part of the process to decide if you deserve to win the scholarship.  Some need-based scholarships consider anyone with an income level below $100,000 to be needy!  Don’t skip over need-based scholarships just because you think your parents make too much money!  You never know what income levels they consider “too much” to be qualified to apply for their scholarship.  If you can’t find the income requirements in the application instructions, go ahead and apply.

Community service might just be the key to winning scholarships.  Be sure to share any and all volunteer hours you have worked in the last four years.  Scholarship judges are so impressed with students that have taken the time to help others.  Even easy volunteering like helping coach a child’s tee ball team is considered community service.  Lots of volunteer hours also gives you ideas for the popular scholarship essay question:  What have you done to contribute to society?  You can tell them about how you use your gift of playing baseball to help small children.  If you do not have any volunteer hours, start NOW.  You will be surprised at how many hours you can give in just a few months of community service.

I did say five, but the very best and most important tip on how to win college scholarships is to learn how to make your scholarship applications stand out to the judges.  I developed a method of doing this that won my son over $20,000 in private scholarships.  I was personally told by a few judges that his application package was so impressive that they knew from the start that he was going to be awarded their scholarship.

If you are serious about winning college scholarships, learn about my method by visiting http://www.how2winscholarships.com.  There are scholarship deadlines coming and going constantly.  Students are busy trying to fill out applications and win money for college.  I will show you exactly what you need to do to win college scholarships and get free money for college.  Don’t wait!

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