A debt-free college career is within your reach

You don’t need top grades or perfect test scores to win college scholarships. Marianne Ragins, publisher of www.scholarshipworkshop.com and winner of more than $400,000 in scholarship money, has shown tens of thousands of students how to fund their college careers without going into serious debt. With her as a guide, you can achieve the same goal.

This thoroughly revised fifth edition of Winning Scholarships for College reveals the latest secrets of scholarship success for anyone applying to college, graduate or professional school, or continuing their post-secondary education. You’ll see how rigorous research, involvement in extracurricular activities, special talents and interests, and where you live all combine to determine your chances of securing aid for college-and how these factors can often outweigh grades and test scores.

Winning Scholarships for College explains how and where to search for funds, then takes you step-by-step through the application process using Ragins’s proven methods. This fifth edition shows you how to:
• Explore hundreds of available resources to uncover and win scholarships
• Find little-known scholarship opportunities using the Internet and social media
• Write a compelling personal essay with help from scholarship-winning examples
• Uncover awesome college money opportunities as a middle class student, a home schooled student, a student without an A average, a minority student, a current college student, or even a nontraditional student

With nearly 400 pages and over 30 chapters jam-packed with information, this is one of the most comprehensive books on winning scholarships available, revealing where and how to search for funds, and containing step-by-step instructions for the entire application process.