Scholarship Search Secrets
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Search the Web for Scholarships
Search engines such as Google are the best tools available to you for finding scholarships. However, there are a lot of secrets in terms of getting the best results out of the search engines. For example, if you just search for "scholarships" on Google, you'll get this result:
31 million Web pages would obviously take too long to read and sort through, so we'll need to develop a strategy for being more specific about the scholarships we're looking for.
Refining your searches in Google can be done in a few steps. Let's refer back to your life story that you wrote out earlier. Pick a characteristic about yourself that you'd want to find a scholarship about. For demonstration purposes, let's say you aspire to attend Boston University:
This is a great improvement - you've already got a couple of pages of results you can work with.
Google also offers you ways to refine your searches even further. For example, put quotes around Boston University to make sure that exact phrase appears in the Web pages it finds:
By narrowing down what you're searching for, you'll find pages of scholarships that you can apply for.
Your next step is to start searching for all the words in your life story that you'd want to find scholarships for. What do you want to study? What are your passions? Start searching for these terms using Google, such as:
- Boston University scholarships
- Criminal justice scholarships
- Left handed scholarship
- Single mother scholarships
As you find pages, you may want to bookmark them to come back to them later. To do this, look for the Bookmark menu in your Web browser, like this:
