Scholarships and Merit Aid — How to Get Started
00:00:00.000 | I know there are lots of different scholarship programs outside of schools.
00:00:03.720 | How does someone even begin to put together a plan for
00:00:07.960 | finding scholarship and Merit Aid?
00:00:10.320 | You go to tamingthehighcostofcollege.com/scholarships.
00:00:15.080 | I have the scholarship guide for busy parents and I'm just launching it this week.
00:00:20.120 | But the goal of it is so you can learn enough to know about what types of
00:00:23.520 | scholarships are right fit for you.
00:00:25.160 | I mean, I had a family fill out 41 scholarship applications and they
00:00:29.800 | won seven for $39,000, but they're the exception.
00:00:33.920 | They're not the rule, right?
00:00:35.720 | And if you're going to work that hard at it, you need to
00:00:37.960 | know what you're getting into.
00:00:38.960 | And that's the reality, right?
00:00:40.200 | Is families that should work that hard at it, because they could be successful,
00:00:43.760 | run out of time because they don't start early enough and therefore
00:00:47.400 | they don't do the 40 applications.
00:00:49.440 | They do six or five or zero.
00:00:51.200 | And then other times families, students are busy, parents are busy.
00:00:55.680 | Somebody has to do all the hard work for scholarships,
00:00:58.520 | and it could be worth it.