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Scholarship Tip: Make Minutes Matter
Parents, use this college scholarship tip to encourage your teens to apply for and win more awards!
Teenagers are a tricky group. Ask them to “Go out and win college scholarships” and you will more than likely get the typical teen eye-roll, as well as the response, “I don’t know how”.
Sitting down together for 15 minutes a day, setting a timer if necessary, takes the fear away and allows you and your teen to walk through the process quicker and more accurately.
Once they start, they will often want to continue beyond the planned time as they realize scholarship work is not as hard as it sounds.
Do the math and share with them that working on scholarships for 15 minutes a day adds up to 105 minutes a week, which is 420 minutes or 7 hours a month! 
The biggest hurdle is often just getting started, so don’t be afraid to get creative with ways to entice your student to take the leap and plunge into the big wide world of college scholarships!
Not sure where to start? Use the steps clearly outlined in my scholarship guide ebooks and help your student along the way.
When they win scholarships, you also win with less stress about where the money is going to come from for college tuition, books, housing, and all the extra fees that come with university life.
Be sure to read: How to Get Your Teens Excited About College Scholarship Work
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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 regard 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. She teaches them how to apply S.M.A.R.T. with outstanding results.
Monica’s scholarship tips have been featured on many prominent websites, and she has been dubbed the “Go-To” expert on college scholarships.
Useful advice I am sure parents will be wanting to get a head start on this
Thanks, Rachael!
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Sorry about that, Carol. Feel free to email me at info@how2winscholarships.com if you have any scholarship questions. I’m not sure why your comment wasn’t accepted.
Monica, Your blog does such a service to people at this stage of their lives, and their children’s lives. Such a help.
Thank you so much, Laurie! I absolutely LOVE what I do! 🙂
I love your simple tips that get work done.
Thanks, Jennifer! 🙂
Great advice. I especially like the idea of setting a timer for 15 minutes. Another idea is to let the teenager choose the days and times that they work on their scholarships. Often times teenagers are ready to roll at midnight, long after their parents are asleep. But that might be when they do their most amazing work.
Thanks, Ellen and SUPER tip about letting teens choose the times. You are so right, we are definitely on different time schedules. Respecting when we individually do our best work is so important.
What a great way to better explain to teens how best to manage their applications! It can be so overwhelming but when broken up in increments, hopefully it’s less so.
Thank you, Amber!