Day 6: The top 5 Most Helpful Scholarship Planning Resources

Here is the top 5 Scholarship resources on the internet: 

5) Scholarships.com is a useful, but very clustered website, like many of the scholarship websites I have used, I found it confusing. On the site where to go and what to do is not clear to the first time user, however, when you search out scholarships it will definitely give you a big out put and a lot of information. 

4) Cappex.com has a great tool when you want to go on a college tour trip, it's called "Campus Visit Planner" (creative name, I know) this tool allows you to plug in all the colleges that you wish to visit, then it will map it out for you, and you can have the website contact the school and let them know when you are coming. Where was this when I was 17? 

3) I like Zinch.com because it was the most straight forward and easy to use, a feature I particularly liked helps you compare colleges side by side on a number of different features like the admittance rate,the average GPA and the cost of the school. It also has a companion site called chegg.com which is college student focused and has a textbook service. 

2) The Scholarplan.org search feature (of course I'm going to mention our website) I have found to be super useful. This website in our website allows you to do a custom search for your school and it's scholarships which is very accurate and very useful. Check it out! 

1) The very most useful source that I have discovered so far on my search is the actual school website such as this one for BYUI. In my work on these sites listed above, they seem to be good for finding you general information about Scholarships and getting you a billion different scholarships you could apply for. The actual school website page was way simpler for me and actually showed all the relevant scholarships I could get. 

Update on the broke to rich challenge: Today I sold my brother's set of golf clubs online, proving that online selling can work! Also today I became  sodaKid by buying a box of mountain dew and attempting to sell it to my fellow students...no success yet...

See you tomorrow! 

- Bruce 

Scholarplan.org 

Cappex

Day 5: 7 Sure Signs Your a Starving Student and Today's Tip to Solve it.

You know your a starving student when....

1. You saw this photo and wondered how I got that picture of you....

   

   2. You wish you made some of those dishes dirty... 

    3. You can't name this president (it's been awhile since you've seen him) 

   4. This is a menu item on a upcoming romantic evening 

5. You found yourself drooling over the thought of having this car (please see a doctor if you know which year this model is, you need some professional help) 

6. This is looking increasingly like a real occupation

(photo from http://blogs.oc.edu/talon/cat/plasma_donation_can_help_hurt)

7. And last, but certainly not the least predictable........

YOU READ THIS BLOG!!!!!

And now for today's tip! 

 

Scholarship Search Tool Link

Thank you! See you tomorrow! 

Day 3 of the 97 Day Pay for College Challenge: Learning to Sell online

Today being day three I began implementing my financial portion of the plan, my brother and I started working on selling some golf clubs online we used a great site called KSL Classifieds, (http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=13) it is the first time that I have ever tried to sell anything online, and it really surprised me how easy it was to put things up and attempt to sell them, so far this looks like it could be a really valuable option to help pay for college, but we'll see what happens. 

Have you ever tried to sell things online? What is your advice? Feel free to leave comments below. See you back here on Monday!

Day 2: How to plan for paying for college

Day 2: Making the plan! Today I learned some great things about how to find scholarships and how easy it actually is. I also found a great article on 25 ways to make money really quick and made a word document that could be useful to anyone trying to figure out how to find a scholarship!

Heres the links:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/photos/25-unusual-ways-to-make-quick-money/#!fullscreen&slide=980290 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzx_RuhsAlZrX3ZzSDJmNjQzS3M/edit?usp=sharing

Broke to rich in 97 days challenge

I am taking 18 credits, I am a part of three clubs, and make 8$ an hour, needless to say I don't have any money, sound like you? In this video I explain a 97 day challenge to change all that and hopefully show you how to do so as well, enjoy! 

www.scholarplan.org