Keep reading to find out exactly when your child should start looking for the big bucks for college. (It might surprise you)
A lot of families think "we'll apply for college in the fall semester of senior year and scholarships in the spring semester of senior year..."
...Which Is The Hardest Timeline To Follow When It Comes To Getting Money
This is what most students are doing. Instead, we want to try to apply when less students are applying.
Most families may also be surprised to hear you can start applying for scholarships BEFORE senior year.
What age to start applying
In The Scholarship System, we typically break up the year into 3 scholarship seasons: Fall, Spring, and Summer.
With most students focused on college applications, scholarship applications have the LEAST competition during these months.
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Again, this is when most students begin applying to scholarships. There are tons of deadlines.
Yup. You can and should apply for scholarships YEAR ROUND. During the summer there are still tons of deadlines. -- so don't let your teen stop once they graduate highschool.
(...And Avoid Student Loan Debt)