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Get Organized to Win More College Scholarships
Learn here how to get organized to win more college scholarships for yourself or your student!
Getting organized is so important and a KEY strategy for helping students get into their dream schools and win more college scholarships.
Welcome, Shari!
Your student has probably said this to you: “Why do I need to be organized before I start applying to colleges? What’s so important about that??” Well, imagine this scenario. Your high school senior is at the computer filling out an application to her first college of choice. She turns to you and says, “Mom, what did I do in 9th grade?” If you’re not organized, panic and anxiety set in. Out the window goes the excitement and anticipation. It doesn’t have to be that way though!
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She began compiling notes as she went through this process with all three of her children. After her third began college, she and her husband decided she should try putting all that information together in some way to help other families. She compiled her notes into suggestions and recommendations for each year of high school, breaking senior year down into six sections, because so much happens during senior year! She placed all this information on manila file folders, added four college folders to keep track of information like due dates for applications, financial aid and housing forms, etc., and all of this goes into an expandable file folder that is portable.
Students and their parents need to get organized to win more college scholarships!
Now your high school student is organized and ready when he or she sits down to start applying to colleges. Out the window goes a great deal of stress and anxiety for the entire family! In comes the possibility of more scholarship monies, because your student has known all along what he/she needed to do to present their best self on their college applications. Today, colleges want to know “who you are” or in other words “what’s your story”….. Now you can tell YOUR story!
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Thank you, Shari! Your system is beautiful and so important to families of college-bound students, especially those who need to win more college scholarships and make the most out of their college applications. Readers, do you have a system of organization for scholarships and college apps? Please share them in the comments section! ~ Monica Matthews

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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 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.
This is some really great advice that applies to the students over here in the UK too! Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks, Suzie!
Such great tips to get students organised. It sounds like a fabulous system that will help lots of people out.
Thank you so much, Debbie!
The antidote to the dreaded student loan.
Exactly, Molly! Scholarships can play a huge part in reducing student loan debt.
I love this idea, it looks so useful to help students keep organised!
Thank you so much, Em!
Great information and boy, this would’ve saved me and my (ahem) organizationally-challenged sons a lot of anxiety back in the day.
Shoot, sorry my info is too late, Laurie! Feel free to share with your friends and family who have college-aged or college-bound students. 🙂
Brilliant! Can’t say much more about this than…brilliant!
LOL! Thanks, Jennifer! 🙂