When to look for college scholarships
4 Untold Ways to Find Scholarships For College When Looking for Financial Aid
one of the number one questions that
parents often ask me is Kansas how can I
find scholarships for my student yes
right now you may be looking for college
money or you know somebody that is well
in this video I want to show you the
four places that I recommend that you
look for college scholarships that
nobody's really talking about number two
I even talked about when deciding on
what college to go with or what
scholarship to eventually take how to do
that and number three you'll get an
inside and listen on all of the
questions that I answered on this live
call with some of the parents that I
work with and my private mastermind
group
hey I'm cantor Simmons and welcome to
the Kansas Simmons show hey what's going
on Cantus Simmons here so tonight I want
to jump on live to talk about college
money and scholarships college money and
scholarships listen if you are joining
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yes let me know where you're from well
searching for a college is the same way
that you want to search for a car or a
dress or a house right so you know when
you search for a dress or a house or car
you're gonna find out if the house if
the car if the dress has all of the
features that you want right and then
you want to look at what are the
benefits of going to or buying this car
or buying this house even wearing this
dress the same thing is true where I
colleges are concerned what other
features that this college has right
features could be
they have a great program at that
college another feature is it is
inner-city another feature is it could
be close to parents two or three hours
away another feature is hey is local so
I have in-state tuition
another feature could be they have a
great football team a great athletic
program because your son or daughter may
want to go to that school so those are
the features now I also need you to
think about benefits right what are the
benefits
oh I love it okay cool John Laberge said
great Emily is doing an internship at
Disney she went to London with the
Sports Management Group in January
awesome awesome did she end up going to
the school in New York Eye mr. LaBelle
just checking out there alright so what
are the benefits what are the benefits
for going to that College right benefit
meaning hmm because it's in-state a
benefit now is that we get in-state
tuition so the fees are lower another
benefit could be oh wow we have a cousin
that works in administration department
who has some inside scoop on allowing I
student getting a benefit right another
benefit could be
they're offering us more than 50% on the
college tuition that's another benefit
now why do I say that I say that because
when I see individuals or families who
have a lot of different options in this
case somebody had about seven different
schools here right one of the things
that you want to consider like sometimes
we have our mindset on the first choice
and that's good and that's great but
sometimes you look at those other
choices and you really look at them they
could be a better choice than the first
tool and I want to I want people to
always ask themselves and parents have
this conversation with your students to
have the conversation with the parent
why is the first choice school the first
choice school right like why is it the
first choice school
and how does it really compare to the
second-choice school now the reason I
say this it's because sometimes I've
seen as things go on people don't go to
their first choice they go to a second
choice or third choice and they realize
oh wow
here's a benefit of the second and third
choice school they are giving us more
money than the first short school and if
that's the case hey I would always take
in most cases take the money over not
being able to go to college I have a big
tuition debt because sometimes in
colleges you may not see a big
difference in the academic program right
they could have some of the same
features but you want to look at the
benefits you want look at benefits one
of the ways that I recommend you guys
search for scholarships and not talk
more about this amount my full program
is to
is to definitely consider the school
now here's what I mean yes I understand
that your son of your daughter may not
have started that school all right let's
say for example Morehouse right yes I
know daughter wants to go to Morehouse
they're not they haven't been a fish
your Morehouse student yet maybe as a
parent you haven't visited maybe you
don't know anybody there but one place I
recommend that you look for scholarships
initially is at the College of your
choice right so you definitely go to the
admissions department
you want to go to the
what I call New Student Orientation
Department
and the Alumni Department
all right so whatever school you're
looking to go into go look on that
college campus research that college
campus the admissions freshman
orientation financial aid department
also them too and then alumni okay
admissions freshman orientation new
student week
their department financial aid
department as well as the Alumni
Association now here's something else
that you can do
have your student or even yourself find
other individuals maybe they're on
Facebook Instagram social media let's
say now we have a student who's
currently a freshman at Morehouse or us
a sophomore at Morehouse
develop a conversation with them to
figure out how they're paying for
college and maybe they have some insight
into some of the scholarships that are
on that college campus alright so the
first thing you definitely do is to look
local look at those local schools go
really in depth also even reach out to
the departments or the majors that your
son or daughter want to go into and
sometimes they can give you even more
insight into where the money is at that
local college so first of all looking
local second of all
all right cool so
god I'm just reading commerce here's
miss Dana said they do not add up I was
asking if those other private schools
if the scholarships added up she says no
they did not add up to a full
scholarship maybe around 5 to 10 K out
of pocket per year for private schools
Barry and Agnes Scott all right cool
cool so what we want to do now you want
to keep those things like you want to
weigh your options and keep up this work
actually one of our families miss the
Randall family they stayed with this
process stay with this process and they
were able to get all the money they
needed check this out one week before
school started because they didn't you
know cave in and quit so I encourage you
guys to do the same thing
all right so number one looking at the
local college research in the local
college digging into the local college
finding what scholarships are there at
the local college I'm gonna do a quick
search for something
there's a book it used to be in the
library
you
hmm
you
all right so there's this book now it
may it may be outdated
all right so let me show it to you guys
I don't think I've ever showed anybody
yes I have let me share my screen over
here
that's not the screen I want
all right cool so this is a screen over
here that I want to show you
all right
if you guys can see my see my screen
over here it's like Amazon you guys can
see that all right cool you should be
able to see that so there's this book in
Amazon it's called the college blue book
now this book used to be in the library
it's the 34th edition so you realize
that because it has 34 editions this is
hardcover 2007 version
this book is a hardback because like $95
used to be in the library in some
schools here's one right here
I would definitely check out
I'm looking at the rankings the ratings
it's called the ultimate scholarship
book 2020 billions of dollars in
scholarships grants and prizes
information on 1.5 million scholarship
grants and prizes is accessible in this
revised director with more than
threatened listing now I believe how
many to purchase this book for myself I
might add it to my cart see what it's
about
all right now I love this because it
also gives me access to some other books
but let's go back and look at this one
book here
look at the reviews in the ratings
this book will help your college-bound
child better on the computer this book
is so less stressed within searching
industry on the www valuable information
we have a high school senior we are
determined to see him graduates in
college a good reference as I said a
very old copy only thing you need for
scholarships it's all in here absolutely
no point in going anywhere else this is
very helpful
so I would recommend checking out this
book right
and the Blue Book the one that I used to
recommend which I still do recommend I
believe has been minimized because it
was like I said it was in the library
and it was a huge huge catalog of
scholarships right here and let me go
back
you're the same book you know this is
years but you could go through it and
flip through it based on you can search
for a few things there and that book you
can search for colleges and then show
you all of the grants fellowships and
scholarships that are related to that
College and you can search to find all
the scholarships that are wrapped around
a certain type of alright I think I'm
gonna order that other book for myself
okay so that's another way okay just
books and resources out there here's the
third way there is a
you
alright let me show you my screen again
over here
awesome so there is this app now you
guys can download this to your computer
if you have a heard of it it's called
skali alright
skali my scollay calm and you can
download the app and the app will help
you find some scholarships once you log
in and go to your Student Success
platform you can go in and set up your
profile and get organized there on
scholarly you gain access to all of
Scully's amazing product scholar scholar
search editor and math work together to
help students thrive at every stage is
that gonna be Journal Scholar search
that's what you want to go into
it's an adaptive scholarship matching
engine connects you with scholarships
Taylor just to you Scottish Church turns
the process of finding money for college
four months in two minutes
does anybody else use scholarly this app
if you can download to your phone
my scollay calm my scholar calm the
search feature there
so number one create a profile
check your Scala scores
you just Khali editor that's a really
cool app there all right scollay skali
calm what my skali calm all right
another thing you want to do go back to
just double-check something here
all right another thing that you want to
do here go over to Google and what we
want to do is take your major or your
son or daughter's major drink some
orange juice here your major plus
scholarship
hmm I'm sorry if I'm angrier that juice
is so good all right
so business
now look at this before I can even write
down scholarships Google give me some
suggested terms now here's what I
recommend when you're doing this search
let's say your son or daughter may be
interested in going into
business right
now we can use the word business or we
could use some other word like business
management
you
all right business management
scholarship
so here's what I'm advising you to do
even though they may say hey I want to
go into chemistry we could do chemistry
plus scholarship but now I'm just
showing you you know chemistry is one
thing
chemistry scholarship
he's a give you some suggested terms and
phrases
but we also can do hmm
science scholarship right even though I
won a major in chemistry really cup
science scholarships
nothing we can do stem
scholarships now if if she is a female
we can do scam scholarships for women
right so what I want you to see here is
by taking your major your field of study
business
scholarships
now Google automatically gives you some
suggested terms and phrases
and now you can just search these
phrases right business cautions for high
school seniors let's go there
all right now at the top here if you see
something called ad that means this
organization they paid Google to show up
at the first spot on the Google search
now in some cases I will say skip past
the ads but then I ask myself all right
cool why are they promoting their
business to be on the first page and
then I click it here
right national college map quest bridge
who should apply we are looking for high
school seniors who have shown
outstanding academic ability despite
financial challenges we take a holistic
approach to reviewing applications we do
not have absolute criteria for cut-offs
for GPA standardized test scores income
or other factors all right any time you
find one of these scholarships just want
to go through and look at the criteria
eligibility unless you're eligible for
this scholarship
in the fall of 2009 applicants must
graduate from high school Dorner before
the summit of 2020 and planned to enroll
as a freshman in college fall of 2020
all right
so for those interested in business you
can go the go there here's some
eligibility
are important considerations for
students who are not US citizens are
permanent but are attending high school
United States only some of our colleges
was consider none us dude alright now
you want to go through academic
achievement grades in the rigor of high
school curriculum primarily aids in the
most courses class ranked top five ten
percent SAT scores additional criteria
financial qualifications all right so
these are the academic qualifications
you want to read those and check yes yes
yes if that is your son or your daughter
go through the financial qualifications
finalist type typically comes from
households earning less than sixty five
thousand dollars okay
go through everything here personal
circumstances
and then let's see here refer a student
finalist egg profile how to apply click
on apply here
and then it walks you through how to
apply alright so I would definitely
check that out just because it's on the
top page it's the first page the first
link up there they're paying for it and
then I will take the time to go through
these other links
25 scholarships specifically for
business majors that's $5,000 there
there's three thousand dollars there
Renewable fifteen hundred five thousand
five thousand golden key I think I had a
golden key scholarship all right go
through this and look at what's required
okay that link was bad
but now we could potentially if we can't
if that link doesn't work just go over
here copy it
go over to google and sort of type in
golden key undergraduate Achievement
Scholarship
find another link where it hasn't
there's some contact information looks
like they're in Atlanta you just got to
do your research got to do your research
all right let me go back over here too
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$10,000 10 to 15
thousand dollars yes it's competitive
right but you got to look got to put the
work in got to put the work in I'm going
any other majors you guys still there
any other majors any other majors
sports management yep sports management
so again I'm go to Google
bones so I didn't get to typing yet
sports management and again
suggestions
and I can go with the very first one I
could but the reason I like doing this
before I hit return so that I can see
some of the other criteria that people
would like to search for these phrases
right
Saba look see there I'm gonna check
something here
perfect sports management scholarship
sports management 2020 for high school
seniors let's go 2020
thousand dollars $2,000 $2,000 some dude
days there
twenty-five scholarships the sports
management majors
let's the scholarships the sports
management majors raise me sports
management
here's an ad Ohio University sports
administration and coaching
I'm sorry here's another thing that you
can do at the very the top of Google
there's the words at the very bottom
here some other related search term hmm
minority sports management scholarship
scholarships for minorities and I takes
you to UNCF org if you anybody seen
you're not a Negro College Fund
it leaves you there
you can go through and search there
physiology I got you miss wetly
wetly or wetly all right slowly ones are
the same thing here you want to go
through and research page one go through
the page to Tom Joyner foundation
support for favorite HBCUs $1,000
scholarships scholarships in Georgia
scholarships and service management some
in service program
sixty-six minority College Gaza for 2019
now even though this is
sixty-six minority college scholarships
of 2019
Nikki Washington all right
they probably have these same things in
2020
so what do you want to do you just want
to go through Wayne State University I'm
not sure if Miss Macmillan is still on
Khalif family scholarships
you
oh okay cool black african-american we
can search around here
April 16th
for community journalism
blacks at Microsoft scholarships March
8th
David Porter need bass diversity $10,000
african-american students enrolling
improving you want to go through look at
those things
and you just want to follow the trail
and go down the dark hole of
scholarships all right before I stop
that let's go out of that all right
somebody else your head
no pilot OBGYN physiology scholarship
agam and go back over to Google
here's what I would do here I would do
obg
why in
scholarships for ob/gyn now normally an
undergrad
they may not have that major
but it can give some clues until where
things may go
medical fields like even though your son
your son or daughter may be majoring in
a certain feel like physiology but we
know that we may want to go to grad
school
what we can do now is find scholarships
that's going to support their future
these are the same thing don't do the
same thing so now you can also - if you
want to we can do physiology
scholarships
I'm gonna leave it in there
you
so this universe's on Southern
California
they talks about some of the awards that
are already been given out there
medical school scholarship scholarship
undergraduate medical school UK
scholarships are studied medicine in
Canada medical school scholarships we
could go down that rabbit hole there or
we can just go and stay with physiology
scholarship
you
hmm twenty-five hundred five thousand
forty eight hundred fifteen thousand
the scholarships calm
just follow the rabbits real
now this thing is an additive and
additive property
within September 11th
we can hit do days and put the due dates
in order or we can click by ammount
hmm look at those numbers
and I just want to follow the rabbit
trail
there's the contact information we look
to see what's required
all right was this helpful so far
somebody says I want to I want I want
her to do nursing first okay
maybe that's not wise right like why do
you want her to do nursing first
all right why do you want her to do
nursing is that because you want her to
be skilled enough to get a job all right
so you got to look at what's the best
route now here's another thing that you
guys can do
all right time i come off real quick my
face so we have searching the university
right
we have searching and having
conversations with other people that are
already currently enrolled in that
school
number three we have Google
in number four we have alumni now this
is a different type of alumni alumni
that have already graduated from their
school and maybe they're not associated
with
the alumni association right so what I'm
gonna do here let me see if I can here
so what you want to do now you go to
Facebook up in the search area
and now we want to find groups or people
type in the College of your choice
I said Morehouse College and I put
business because that's the major and so
now we can look at all post of Morehouse
College in business we can seek out
people I know he went to Morehouse and
they may have some others you know going
to Morehouse but go over to groups in
those groups
Morehouse College group
thirteen hundred members exactly almost
and then now we could potentially go
through here and
not spam the group will look at certain
people what they're doing and just in
boxing my eggs and some questions
when I ask them some questions
all right I'll have the app so I need
events going on
hmmm how to do business with Morehouse
School of Medicine
all right that's not even in April maybe
there are some people there
that knows something now you can do your
research there alright so what am I
saying I'm now saying to go ahead and
develop some relationships with people
that are ready to go to the school all
right listen I just wanted to jump in
tonight I don't want to stay here too
long but was this helpful let me guys
let me know if you guys are still here
let me know this has been helpful for
you let me know how you can practically
use this how you can practically just go
in and do your research and not only for
what's out there the applications but
also doing research with individuals
that actually went to those schools
using social media to this sort of
network and give you some ideas on like
think about it if people are already
going to that college there are some
people at that college that are who are
there and they're there in school like
somebody's paying their bill so we got
to figure out okay if you're in school
you're in school already you're at UGA
you're at Morehouse you at University of
Rochester
okay cool who's paying your bill
and can you help me find the person that
pays your bill because they paid your
bill maybe we can pay my son or daughter
beer you see what I'm saying so that's
the little thing I just want to jump on
because you guys are here we can go more
in depth on this more tips and tricks
and everything on on this and actually
over the next few weeks I'm working more
with some families in a private program
and if you're interested in a private
program to go through and you know step
by step to help you get organized and
our Lord I know a lot of times it's hard
doing it by yourself but
unaccountability a group of families and
over a few weeks we really break this
down and just sort of walk people
through it that's how
our family from New York
mr. LaBelle met him and his family miss
McMillan her family the Randalls
families walking them all through the
process and if you're interested in in
that program hey send me a message in my
inbox and I would love to have you in
that program and walk you through it now
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