Gen Tanabe - The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2020

GET THE MONEY YOU NEED TO PAY FOR COLLEGE! Insider tips from top scholarship winners and judges Secrets to writing applications and essays that win Where to find the best scholarships Techniques for maximizing your financial aid package ISBN13: 978-1-61760-135-4 Price: $19.99 EVERY CONCEIVABLE WAY TO PAY FOR COLLEGE Where to find the best scholarships Pay in-state tuition even if youre an out-of-state student Jump-start your college savings Get your share of the $252 billion in financial aid available Have your state pay for your college education Get your student loans forgiven And much, much more! ISBN: 978-1-61760-149-1 $19.99 APPLY FOR THE GEN AND KELLY TANABE SCHOLARSHIP The Gen and Kelly Tanabe Scholarship is a merit-based program that helps students fulfill their dreams of a higher education. The program is open to 9th-12th grade high school, college, or graduate students including adult learners. Visit www.gkscholarship.com to apply. GET MORE TOOLS AND RESOURCES AT SUPERCOLLEGE.COM Visit www.supercollege.com for more free resources on college admission, scholarships and financial aid. And, apply for the SuperCollege Scholarship. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Harvard graduates and husband and wife team Gen and Kelly Tanabe are the founders of SuperCollege and award-winning authors of 14 books including: Get Free Cash for College , 1001 Ways to Pay for College , How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay , The Ultimate Guide to Americas Best Colleges , Get into Any College , Accepted! 50 Successful College Admission Essays , 501 Ways for Adult Students to Pay for College and Accepted! 50 Successful Business School Admission Essays .

Together, Gen and Kelly were accepted to every school to which they applied, including all the Ivy League colleges and won over $100,000 in merit-based scholarships. They were able to graduate from Harvard debt-free. Gen and Kelly give workshops across the country and write the nationally syndicated Ask the SuperCollege Experts column. They have made hundreds of appearances on television and radio and have served as expert sources for USA Today , the New York Times , U.S. News & World Report , New York Daily News , San Jose Mercury News , Chronicle of Higher Education , CNN and Seventeen . Gen grew up in Waialua, Hawaii.

A graduate of Waialua High School, he was the first student from his school to be accepted at Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in both History and East Asian Studies. Kelly attended Whitney High School, a nationally ranked public high school in her hometown of Cerritos, California. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Sociology. The Tanabes approach financial aid from a practical, hands-on point of view. Drawing on the collective knowledge and experiences of students, they provide real strategies students can use to pay for their education. chapter How to Use the Ultimate Scholarship Book A Scholarship Book Thats Better Than a Website I s it crazy to say that a bound stack of paper and glue is superior to the high speed bits and bytes of a scholarship website? Absolutely not! Because it is true. chapter How to Use the Ultimate Scholarship Book A Scholarship Book Thats Better Than a Website I s it crazy to say that a bound stack of paper and glue is superior to the high speed bits and bytes of a scholarship website? Absolutely not! Because it is true.

Let us explain. Unless youre starting out, youve probably used a scholarship website. Typically you fill out a profile questionnaire to provide information about yourself before hitting the search button. So far, this seems much easier than using a book. Until you get your results. No matter what website you use, there will be an unusually large number of scholarships that arent good matches.

After reading the eligibility requirements, you will discover that only a small handful are worth your time to apply. Youve just discovered the first major weakness of every scholarship website: your life (background, experiences, goals, talents, awards, interests and accomplishments) cannot be defined or summarized by a computer-generated questionnaire. Your Life is MORE Than a 30-Question Profile The simple truth is that no computer can match you to scholarships as well as you can. You are a complex individual with a variety of passions, interests and goals. Nothingperson or machineknows you better than you know yourself. And think about that profile form.

Thats the only information the computer has about you. But what if you dont know all the answers? Are you really set on becoming an orthopedic surgeon, or did that just sound cool? Even worse, you are limited by the choices provided on that profile questionnaire. Imagine that you wrote a poem that was published in your towns community newspaper. Should you select poet as a future career? Will that trigger a great poetry scholarship? Or maybe under hobbies, you should select writing and journalism? Of course, that might trigger a flood of journalism scholarships that wouldnt apply to you. Or maybe, even though your school doesnt have a poetry club, you should still tell the computer that you are a member of one in order to trick it into showing you a sweet poetry award? Do you see where were going? The very fact that you need to give the computer information about yourself while only using the choices the computer provides, without any clue about how those answers will affect your results, almost guarantees that you are going to miss out on some good scholarships. How do you know that because you answered a single question in the way that you did, that you are not missing out on some fantastic scholarship opportunities? The answer is, you dont.

About Your Authors What makes us qualified to write The Ultimate Scholarship Book ? Primarily its because at one time we were exactly where you are now. We needed money to pay for college, and scholarships turned out to be our only answer. Not only did we do pretty well (winning more than $100,000 in free cash for college) but since then, weve continued to help thousands of students do the same. Heres our story: Kelly grew up in Los Angeles and when she got accepted to Harvard (which costs about $70,000 per year!), her family just didnt have the money to pay for it. Gen grew up in Hawaii and faced a similar financial crunch when he got into Harvard. In fact, his father even tried to bribe him to attend his state university by offering him a new car if he would give up his idea of attending the ivy-league college.

Even considering the cost of a brand new car, it would have been cheaper for Gens family to make car payments than pay Harvard tuition! Since we both had our hearts set on attending a very expensive college that our families could not afford, we had little choice but to become fanatics about applying for scholarships. While we made a lot of beginner mistakes and it was by no means a quick or easy process, we were ultimately successful in winning more than $100,000 in scholarships. It was only because of this money that we were able to attend Harvard and were both able to graduate from college debt free. As you may have guessed by now, we met while at college. We were actually next door neighbors in the dorm, and we were married a few years after we graduated from Harvard. Knowing first-hand how hard it can be for families to pay for college, we decided to share what we had learned as a result of our own pursuits to find funds for tuition.