Watching Your Wallet: Applying for smaller college scholarships pays off big time

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- From creation and engineering to duck calling, determination are billions of dollars successful scholarships up for grabs.

"The much obscure and the much niche it is, the much apt it is that determination are less radical who are going to use for it," says Kevin Ladd, COO of Scholarships.com.

Ladd says smaller scholarships are much apt to wage off.

The level helps students hunt and use for assemblage scholarships, and adjacent pairs students with wealth they're eligible for based connected their profile.

"Fill retired a illustration and you're saying, 'This is who I am.' and getting arsenic granular arsenic you can, and we tin lucifer you to you based connected each facet of you," Ladd said.

For anyone applying for scholarships, helium says it's champion to beryllium yourself.

"You don't cognize what they want," Ladd said. "Trust me, they privation a existent person. They privation idiosyncratic who is unique, who's authentic. Being yourself is the biggest thing."

The directory unsocial highlights scholarships ranging from "being a twin" to being a "child of a azygous parent" scholarships.

"There's specified a immense variety, and everyone retired determination is going to suffice for some, if not dozens of scholarships, based connected things that are not being the backmost oregon the hoops subordinate oregon the chess captain," Ladd said.

According to the Education Data Initiative, astir 180,000 student-athletes successful the United States person diversion scholarships annually. That represents little than 2% of precocious schoolhouse student-athletes who program to vie successful college.

"There are truthful galore others, and it tin beryllium based connected what your parents bash for a living, whether they beryllium to a recognition national oregon whether they're exigency services, Ladd said.

Don't deliberation you person to beryllium a precocious schoolhouse elder to commencement earning assistance money.

There are immoderate scholarships disposable for each precocious schoolhouse and undergrad levels.

When it comes to scholarships, Ladd went connected to accidental it's champion to commencement aboriginal and use often.

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