Jenny used some of the standard scholarship search engines to identify sources of financial aid for school. She avoided paying a fee for help to find a scholarship, because she read the warnings against paying an advisor or a fee to get scholarships. The consequence of not being willing to pay—she received 100’s of spammed email offers from schools, products, and more. She wasted time on contests and surveys.
Characteristics of Scholar-Box
We recently discovered a new source of financial funding called Scholar-Box. It combines the advantages of the articles on ScholarshipHelp.com with traditional scholarship search engines. You can access them at Scholar-Box.com. They describe themselves in their About Us section as follows:
- “Why: We want to do good and make a difference in the world! We are passionate about education and feel we can have a positive influence on students and faculty everywhere.”
- “How: Scholarships are on the mind of every student preparing for further education. We improve the scholarship process for counselors, parents, and students.”
- “What: We provide high-quality Web based scholarship tools that save substantial amounts of time. Counselors using our tools get more students more scholarships.”
Scholar-Box provides training programs to help you succeed in finding the money for college:
“In five short lessons you will learn and understand what needs to be done to receive scholarship money for college. Learn how to find 100+ scholarships in five minutes, write scholarships essays in 30 minutes, and more.”
We’ve read the materials they offer and found them very helpful and informative.
One of the advantages of paying the fee for Scholar-Box remains the ability to avoid contests, surveys, and the gimmicks that trick you into applying. We didn’t find any offerings like that on the site.
Disadvantages of Scholar-Box
You must pay $39 a year for a subscription to the web site.
Because it is new, it has not developed an extensive database of offerings. They tell us they will get more.
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You can simply opt-out to avoid emails from the free scholarship search sites and the contests are clearly marked. Free always beats paying for a service you can do yourself.
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