Scholarships, Grants & Prizes, 2004 [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Peterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes

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

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Peterson's; Original edition (July 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0768912296
• ISBN-13: 978-0768912296
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,163,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars this book is a time-sucker, December 1, 2003

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Kim D (Chicago IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scholarships, Grants & Prizes, 2004 (Paperback)

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.

8 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From A Teacher, October 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Scholarships, Grants & Prizes, 2004 (Paperback)

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.