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Ben Kaplan (Author)
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0060936541 978-0060936549 February 4, 2003 1

The first in-depth guide to the nation's best, most accessible scholarship opportunities!

A true insider in the world of tuition financing, Ben Kaplan has helped tens of thousands of students attend colleges and universities they never thought they'd be able to afford. Now he takes his expertise one step further in this behind-the-scenes tour of America's top scholarship programs.

Based on hundreds of exhaustive interviews with scholarship judges, administrators, and past winners, this easy-to-use scouting report highlights the essential scholarships you must know about and helps you better address each scholarship's "hidden" judging criteria in your application.

If you think the college of your dreams is out of your financial reach-or that your scholarship search has to be an overwhelming and frustrating process-think again: Ben Kaplan wrote the guide that will help you focus your search, position your scholarship candidacy, and ultimately afford the college of your choice.

Special Note: As a valued reader of this book, you also receive access to the Coach's Locker Room at Ben Kaplan's ScholarshipCoach.com website. The Coach's Locker Room provides a wealth of bonus material, updates to information contained in The Scholarship Scouting Report, question and answer postings, and other helpful resources.


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Guides to finding and applying for scholarships are plentiful, so ambitious high-schoolers might as well get one penned by someone who managed to pick up enough award money to put himself through Harvard. Kaplan wrote How To Go To College Almost For Free (he garnered "nearly $90,000 in scholarship winnings," he notes proudly), and now he moves on to examine the most attractive scholarships nationwide. Kaplan winnows them down to those available to the largest pool of people (e.g. scholarships not based on region, race or financial need), and then picks the most lucrative of the bunch. The result is an odd collection of benefactors, from America's Junior Miss to the Ayn Rand Institute, but the book is jammed with useful information for the college-bound. In addition to the necessary procedural details, Kaplan adds anecdotes, tips and past entries or essays that caught judges' eyes. The lively, graphics-filled format is pretty goofy, but this is a valuable resource for scholarship-hungry kids looking for the inside scoop. B&w illus.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Kaplan's first book, How to Go to College Almost for Free (2001), was chockablock with general information for college-bound teens hunting for scholarship money, but his latest book really gets down to specifics. It's a collection of more than 100 carefully selected awards with the usual information on entry requirements and application procedures but also with great insider's advice on judging criteria, excerpts from winning scholarship entries, and summaries of the actual experiences of award winners. In choosing awards, Kaplan has steered clear of need-based scholarships and focused on awards that can be used anywhere, and he has made an obvious effort to crisscross age levels: the Talbot's Scholarship, for example, is for adult women bound for college; the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Program is open to students as young as 14. It's all about mindset, Kaplan says in his cheery, enthusiastic text, and he provides lots of advice, with even more available on his interactive Web site. Stephanie Zvirin
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Collins Reference; 1 edition (February 4, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060936541
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060936549
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Helpful, October 26, 2004
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I had spent a lot of time using online scholarship search database sites and was really frustrated. Then I found this book on Amazon and thought I would give it a try. I didn't have very high expectations (given my online search) so I was thrilled when I found in the book bunches of scholarships to apply for and tips on how to win each one. Why didn't my guidance counselor tell me about this book?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended at my school, October 26, 2004
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I am a guidance counselor at a large high school and have been recommending this book to my students. What is so useful about it is how it not only profiles the top scholarship awards in the country, but also discusses students who won the awards (and even includes their pictures and essays). I've found it highly motivational to show this book to my students, so that they can see that students just like them win these awards. We are even thinking about getting classroom sets for members of the junior and senior class.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, GREAT BOOK!, October 26, 2004
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THIS BOOK REALLY IS FANTASTIC. I AM A GRAD STUDENT AND USED THIS BOOK TO GREAT SUCCESS. THE SAMPLE WINNING ESSAYS ARE REALLY HELPFUL, AS ARE THE INTERVIEWS WITH SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP JUDGES. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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