College Scholarship Tip Friday: Check Your Mail!

This college scholarship tip may seem like a no-brainer, but you would be surprised at how many students are not doing it. Keep reading…

[2022 Edition]

Scholarship providers contact students who have been chosen to receive their scholarship money in a few different ways.

Students need to regularly check all of their email boxes, including spam folders, for notifications and correspondence from scholarship providers.

Many scholarship award letters are also sent via regular mail, so checking the mailbox at home is also vital. 

Some organizations will need verification forms filled out and mailed back (or uploaded and sent back electronically) by specific dates, or the scholarship money may be forfeited. Don’t let that happen!

Check those mailboxes and quickly follow up with any scholarship organization that requests more information. The work is not over until that scholarship check is in a student’s hands or has been mailed and received by the college he or she plans on attending.

If the scholarship is renewable (the money is given yearly), students need to be aware of any grade point requirements and renewal stipulations that come with the award. 

In addition, copies of all correspondence with the organization offering the scholarship should be kept in a safe place together with all the materials that were submitted when applying.

I’ve actually seen scholarships lost several times on websites that post the winners’ names and when the student does not respond in three days (or whatever timeline is published in the guidelines) a new name appears, as the original student must have not responded. YIKES!!!

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Winning a college scholarship is a wonderful thing, so don’t let the scholarship money get away by not following these simple steps!

I’d love to hear about it if you won a scholarship, especially if you used the unique applying tips found only in my college scholarship guide ebooks.

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Monica Matthews

Monica Matthews is the author of How to Win College Scholarships. She helped her own son win over $100,000 in college scholarships and now shares her expertise with other parents and their students. She truly has “been there, done that” in regards to helping parents and students navigate the scholarship process.

Her method of helping students in finding college scholarships, writing unique and compelling scholarship essays, creating amazing scholarship application packets and more, have taught desperate parents to help their own students win thousands of scholarship dollars.

Monica’s scholarship tips have been featured on many prominent websites and she has been dubbed the “Go-To” expert on college scholarships.