The Top 5 Places to Look for Scholarships at UMass Amherst
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“Money money money money.” – The O’Jays
Does this story sound familiar? You enter college knowing you are going to be paying a ton of money in tuition, fees, room and board, etc. Four years of it in fact. Not to mention parking, entertainment expenses, money you’ll spend on girlfriends / boyfriends / friends in general. You’ll pay for parties. You’ll pay for textbooks. Shit, by the time college is through, you’ve paid a lot of people a wholeee lot of money.
Here’s a word I want you to repeat over and over again: SCHOLARSHIPS.
Anyone who knows me well knows that while in college I was TENACIOUS about applying for scholarship. If there were war mongers of the scholarship application process, I would be Ghengis Kahn, except that I like women, not dudes. A student last week asked me where I found all of the scholarships I applied for in college when I was in school. Well, with no further adoooo…. here they are:
1. Isenberg Scholarships: http://www.isenberg.umass.edu/undergrad/Isenberg/
2. UMass Alumni Association: http://umassalumni.com/students/scholarships.html
3. Commonwealth College: http://www.honors.umass.edu/scholarships
4. UMass Scholarship Database: http://www.massachusetts.edu/scholarships/search.cfm
5. College of Social & Behavioral Sciences: http://www.umass.edu/sbs/academics/undergraduate/scholarships.htm
These five links allowed me to win over 10 scholarships in college. It remains one of my proudest accomplishments. And it can easily be a proud accomplishment of your own as well. Don’t pay for school if others can for you. It just makes way more sense to not go into debt.
If you have a link to scholarships that you would like to share with everyone, let me know and I’ll include it in the post. For example, if you were a Nursing major or ECE major, etc, let the people of the world know where you can apply to their scholarships and awards. Just post in the comments below. Sound good?!?! Soundsssss gooooooooooood.
My name is Ryan Durkin. I write so that I will never forget where I came from and what I stand for. I hope that this will motivate young people to realize their potential and become more productive than they ever imagined. That would make me truly happy.
You got a really useful blog. I have been here reading for about an hour. I am a newbie and your success is very much an inspiration for me.