Today finding scholarships is easy for students—the Internet has made it so. With scholarship databases containing millions of dollars in financial aid at your fingertips, like Scholarships.com, you can earn a scholarship from a business or organization with which you have no affiliation. Getting out of the car, opening the door, and walking in to the scholarship provider’s office to pick up an application is a method of the past because of the effort and time it involves.
Scholarship providers want thousands of students to have a chance at earning their scholarship, and so many choose to list their scholarship awards in databases like Scholarships.com to make their gifts available. Most have even gone so far as to encourage students to apply online. When you apply for scholarships, consider the things that each scholarship provider has already done to make the process easy for you and show your appreciation accordingly. Think about it: They haven’t even determined that you will be the recipient, and yet they have stretched to extraordinary lengths to make the chance at financial assistance easy for you to take.
Thank you in advance for using proper scholarship etiquette. By doing so, you will help ensure that scholarship providers will continue to reward deserving students in the future and help another student like yourself attend college.
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