Healthy Kids Tip #2

Healthy Kids Tip #1

Trade Free Summer Time for Free Money for College

A long time ago, when a semester of college cost about the same as a week’s worth of groceries for a family of four, students didn’t spend much time applying for scholarships. They didn’t need to, even college textbooks were inexpensive. Those days are gone. Students and their families need to start looking for scholarships and grants and applying for them much earlier. Some college scholarships are even awarded to children in elementary and middle school.

So if you’re in high school, and you haven’t applied for free money yet, just know someone else has. If you don’t get started now, free money will be harder to find. But don’t panic quite yet, (unless you’re a high school senior). The calendar is trying to help you out.

At the present time, most of US schools are on summer vacation. Thousands of students are home, since their schools are closed. I’m sure many of them are playing video games, watching movies or texting friends. The sharpest ones, however, are using this free time to find free money. Those are the students who see free time as an opportunity, and use it to find and apply for college scholarships.

Each high school has at least one counselor or clerk who is the most knowledgeable when it comes to everything college. Make friends with this person and find out as much as possible about scholarships and grants. You might even find he/she is still at school right now. If you want help making a list of scholarships, call. Use your free time (weekends, holidays, summer vacation, etc.) to apply for any scholarships that look good.

Creating a plan will allow you to take advantage of found time. While others are bored, you’re looking for gold. While they’re hanging out at the mall, you’re finding free money for college. Find and apply for as many local scholarships as you can. Apply for those offered by your colleges of choice too, of course. Quickly apply for any huge scholarships you find offered by foundations and companies.

Use any source available to you. There are many scholarships listed online. Go to my Twitter feed, @ElizaWallace27, and you’ll find several scholarships I’ve come across. Follow the links to the Twitter accounts of people who focus on scholarships to find even more. Be sure to check out any scholarship you find before applying. Make sure it’s real, still available and will cost you nothing but time. Then, go for it. Repeat this process over and over until you’ve graduated from college debt free. 

You are reading from the blog, RoadtoFreeCollege.com, where we empower families with knowledge to navigate the path to higher education without the burden of excessive loans.

 

For more information, you’ll want my book, Free College, CLICK HERE. It teaches families how to help their kids become more successful in school, college, and life.

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Why Students Should Not Fear College

How to Use This Spring and Summer to Pay for College

If you snooze, you lose. Now is the time to find a summer enrichment course for your elementary, middle and/or high school student. Colleges have made their plans. Now it’s time to make yours. Families who do the research, and find summer enrichment courses for their children in colleges and universities will end up paying less for college. Yes, that’s right. Scholarships are awarded to students who have taken college enrichment courses at a much higher rate than those who have not.

Last week I received a catalogue in the mail from my local community college. It was entitled College for Kids. It contains over 40 pages of courses aimed at children from 3 to 18. There are classes for every type of child, and dozens of subjects. These programs exist in universities too. Just look online. These programs look fabulous on college and scholarship applications.  

The prices range from not very much to lots more, but they’re nowhere near what college courses will run after high school graduation. But if you don’t want or can’t spend money right now, there are free programs at many colleges and universities. Greenlight has a list of hundreds of free college courses for summer 2018 at, Summer Programs with Financial Aid. Check them out, find what your child will enjoy, apply. These classes will add the most important item to his/her college scholarship application, summer college enrichment courses.

You are reading from the blog, RoadtoFreeCollege.com, where we empower families with knowledge to navigate the path to higher education without the burden of excessive loans.

 

For more information, you’ll want my book, Free College, CLICK HERE. It teaches families how to help their kids become more successful in school, college, and life.

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no cost to you.

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Simple Steps to Earn an A

Several years ago I decided to leave the country on business. After making this decision, I told my students I wanted to go out with a bang. I wanted them all to earn an A, and told them how to do so. That June, one class had 80% A’s, 15% B’s and 5% C’s. There were no D’s or F’s. Why did this happen in one class and not in the others? These students believed me and did as I suggested. The others didn’t.

Here is what I told them:

1.   Come to class every day well rested and fed.

-If there’s a field trip in another class, and you know you’ll be absent, ask for the work in advance. Do it before you go on the trip. If you had trouble with the work, after you get home from the field trip, call a friend from class and ask for help.

-Figure out what time you need to get up in the morning in order to arrive at school on time. Count back nine hours and go to bed at that time each night.

-Have a healthy breakfast each morning and a nutritious lunch at school, (bring your own food or buy something at school).

-If you’re sick, stay home and get well.

2.   Do every assignment.

-Write down every homework assignment. They’re usually on the board in front of the class. If your homework or class assignments are on the class website, bookmark it on your computer.

-Pay attention and complete every class and homework assignment.

-They don’t have to be perfect, but they need to be complete.

3.   If you’re confused or don’t understand something, ask a question.

-Smart people get ahead by asking questions when they don’t understand something. Raise your hand if there’s something you don’t get.

-Make sure you have the phone number of three students in each class.

-At least one of them should be better than you are in the subject.

-Call one of them if you missed class or need help on an assignment. (People are usually happy to help.)

Students who believed me did these things. Those who did them well received an A. Those who didn’t do them as well received a B, and those who messed up from time to time, but otherwise stuck to the plan, received a C. Everyone knew too much to get a D or F. Try this. What have you got to lose?

You are reading from the blog, RoadtoFreeCollege.com, where we empower families with knowledge to navigate the path to higher education without the burden of excessive loans.

 

For more information, you’ll want my book, Free College, CLICK HERE . It teaches families how to help their kids become more successful in school, college, and life.

Photo Credit: Google Images

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases, at no additional cost to you.

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