Sources of Money 12: The Wiki Called Scholarship Library Can Help You

Tuesdays we review a source of financial aid available to help you pay for college

Jane complained she did everything we taught and earned nothing. We offered to review her master application. She had not prepared one. That’s why she didn’t get money.

Advantages of Scholarship Library

Scholarship Library is the first scholarship wiki we encountered in 12 years helping people get money for college. Scholarship Library describes itself:

“Welcome to ScholarshipLibrary.com, home of the first free public scholarship wiki where you can search through over 230,000 scholarships and $5 billion in scholarship awards. Our mission is to facilitate getting and giving scholarships. We hope to make it as easy as possible for students to find scholarships and for organizations, schools or private entities to advertise their scholarships. Nothing warms our hearts more than the anticipation that thousands of students each year will be able to help finance their education by using our Library.

Because this is an open-access wiki everyone can help make this site valuable. In fact, we rely on our users to make it valuable. Please feel free to make posts, submit edits or changes to content, or give us your feedback through our Feedback button to the right.”

The left side navigation bar offers the abilities to:

• Search features a search bar that fills in possibilities as you type (i.e. you type “lou” it generates a list of scholarships including Lou Ellen, Lou & William)
• Random scholarship generates scholarships randomly
• “Browse by” lets you search for scholarships by
  • State: provided information about 230 scholarships for Utah alone
  • School: listed thousands of scholarships alphabetically by school name
  • Major: showed 896 scholarships just for the political science major
  • Minority: offered 60 ethnic categories, each one offering scholarships
  • Religion: outlined 28 religious categories
  • Disability: included 45 illnesses
  • Activity: listed scholarships for athletics, academics, the arts
  • Military Experience
  • Parent’s Employer

This is an impressive web site.

Disadvantages of Scholarship Library

Click “No thanks” at the bottom of the pop up ad for school programs to move forward.

Thursday we review how to prepare sparkling home run statements for master application