McDonald's All-American? Winner of the Intel Science Prize? Congrats — Every college in America would love to pay your tuition. You can stop reading now.
For the rest of us, there's no easy way around it. College is going to be expensive. And while Zinch's scholarships are probably the sweetest (and most prestigious, obviously) out there, there's only so much love to go around. The good news is that free money is free money, and there's much more if you're willing to work a bit for it.
Here are the top five ways to get yours:
1) Scholarships — Straight up free money. The reality is that by now, each of you should have an account on the large scholarship sites, it should be updated, and you should search at least once a month for new scholarships. You'd be amazed what you can find, and studies show that putting your time into scholarship searches (if you actually take it seriously and put a little thought in) will pay you four to five times more per hour than most other jobs a high school student can get. Here are three big, well known scholarship aggregators. If you haven't already, create an account and begin searching on each.
