Product Description

Comprehensive directory to more than $5 billion in aid—more than 1.6 million awards available from private sources, including foundations, corporations, religious organizations, civic organizations, and more with details on eligibility requirements, application procedures and contact names and addresses. The guide also contains a Quick Reference Chart of awards that offer the highest dollar amount, an easy-to-use index organized by sponsor name and advice on dealing with scholarship scams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1448984 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 888 pages

Customer Reviews

this book is a time-sucker
This book would have been much better as a pay-to-search web site, or a searchable CD-ROM. Here's how to book is set up: half is by subject you will be studying, and half is by other criteria, such as ethnic background, religious affiliation, state of residence, etc. Since I have a major that doesn't translate exactly to a subject area, I had to wade through most of the first half of the book. Also I've been wading through most of the second half of the book as well. This book is nearly 800 pages, and I'm on page 600, and I've located MAYBE seven scholarships for which to apply. The biggest problem is that I'm going into a grad program, and a great many of these scholarships don't cover me. Another problem is that I'm not a minority, a third is that I have no military affiliation and a fourth is that many of the scholarships NOT in the state-specific category are indeed state-specific, or worse.

This seems even more problematic than it sounds. For example, I would find scholarships for the subject I will be studying, BUT wouldn't qualify because of ethnic, residence, or military reasons. ugh!

Had this book been an online database or something, I'd have vastly cut my search time. I'd check off grad school, non-minority, non-military and specified my state of residence, and I would have had a mere fraction of potential scholarships to sift through.

On the flip side, this book does have a few scholarships that the free online search engines didn't have, so it's not entirely worthless.

Probably five stars if you are an undergraduate minority, though.

Scholarships, Grants and Prizes 2005
This work is a considerable compendium for grants and scholarships.
It provides specific websites to obtain funding. Here is a small
list of sources:
- ffa for farmers
- Bestcollegedeals.com
-SME for engineering schools
-World Studio Foundation for arts
-Herb Society of America
-Institute of Food Technologists
-hsfi for Hispanics and others

Each scholarship and grant is listed together with the relevant
amounts and application addresses. The work would be very
useful for any student contemplating collegiate funding sources.
The acquisition of this text would be a worthy addition to any
student library. It is reasonably priced and up-to-date.

From A Teacher
I recommed that you read this book to get the full sweep of freebees, and be sure you also check out West Point (which is the best kept secret in full scholarship educations where you also legally get paid) by reading "West Point: Character Leadership Education: Thomas Jefferson" by Norman Thomas Remick and, essentially, by Thomas Jefferson, one of the greatest educational philosophers the world has ever known.