When to look for college scholarships
3 places to look for scholarships you might not have thought of!
everyone Tina Steele here are the FAFSA guru and just wanted to come on and talk to you
about scholarships because we're getting ready to enter the busiest scholarship deadline season of
the whole year January through April is when the majority of scholarship deadlines are so
now is the time you really should be gearing up and searching for these scholarships so I wanted
to share three places with you to look for them that you might not have thought of so the first
is your job where you work and the bank that you do Banking with a lot of people don't even
realize that their employer offers scholarships for themselves or dependents if they're attending
college and it's the same with banks local banks and credit unions a lot of them have scholarships
in place so check with your employer and the local bank not necessarily that you just bank with but
local banks in your community a lot of times they will offer scholarships for people who live who
live in that particular town so that's number one number two is your state's Higher Education Agency
every state has a higher education agency that houses information about financial aid and the
college planning process to help families all you have to do is Google whatever your state is and
then say Higher Education Agency after that so for me I would do Maine Maine higher education
agency and it's going to pull up the resource for you some states have better resource listings than
others but go there and look when you get to their website just navigate to the scholarship
section if you can find it if you can't a quick way to do it is just up in the search
bar type in scholarships and it should bring you right to the directory of scholarships that are
available for residents of that state there's a lot there and a lot of people don't realize
that they're kind of missing out on all these resources that are available just by being a
resident of that particular state so that's number two number three is once the student
gets admitted to college and makes a decision on where they're going to go which is happening
now for some students that have applied early action you want to check directly through the
college that you plan on attending because they actually have a whole other resource listing of
school ships available for students that are attending their institution and it's usually
housed in the admissions or advising office in addition to the actual academic department that
you're planning on studying so like if you're a business major or an engineering major check
with the engineering in the business department for scholarships specifically for students that
are pursuing that degree within that university they're gonna have a huge resource listing - so
I realize some of you are still kind of going through the admissions process right now and
that's fine but just kind of tuck this away and keep it in mind for when you do make a decision
to look at those colleges some of them even have a portal where you sign in sign in as a student
and can search for a whole bunch of scholarships that way so that's three places your employer
and the bank that you bank with that's one your state Higher Education Agency is - and then the
college that you decide to attend is three and remember January through April is when most of
the deadlines are for scholarships so these next few months are going to be really important for
applying for them to help you get additional money to go to college scholarship money does
go unused every year and remember the tip that I share on some of my other videos focus on the
scholarships that are $3,000 and less because those are the ones that really go unused and
are less competitive everybody's applying for the five thousand ten thousand fifteen thousand
dollar year scholarships because they want to get the best bang for their buck so that's it
and oh just a reminder the FAFSA guru financial aid Academy is now live it only costs fifteen
dollars a month for you to join it's a membership site where I'm uploading resources every single
month to help you navigate the overwhelming college financial aid process I'm and it
includes scholarship information so that alone is worth it just to sign up 15 dollars a month
for the first hundred people and I'm actually down to less than 20 spots for that reduced rate it is
going to go up quite a bit after I get a hundred people sign up so make sure you jump on there's a
video on my youtube channel about it and I'll also if I post this video on my social media
put a link underneath it for that so hope this video helped you all happy scholarship searching
