Scholarships Blog

TLDR; Look for scholarships that make you learn about something you didn't already know about. The best part (other than getting money for college) is when a scholarship makes you research a topic you never explored before. This is not just about funding—it’s also a smart student scholarship guide approach to learning. Earlier this year, I found a scholarship from a company that manages gold assets. To answer their question well, I had to study U.S. economic history and gold

Civil rights can only be advanced in public spaces; in the dark, they wither and die, and cruelty thrives. This is why racists and other hate groups have historically put so much effort into controlling those public spaces, such as by restricting the rights of blacks and women to vote, busting unions, or using rioters and even armed forces to break up peaceful protests on campuses and at the capital (see the Hardhat Riots of 1970 for the former, or the Haymarket Riots of 1896

The following is a scholarship essay I submitted to CapTrust. It's more of a memoir than an academic paper—a good example of a memoir style scholarship essay. Hopefully, it helps students understand how to craft their own essays. It helped me solidify my personal identity, and I wanted to share. I will start with one word: Communicator. I sincerely believe that communication is the antibiotic of human society. You could solve virtually every Shakespeare play's plot by improvi

The following is a scholarship essay I submitted to American Bullion. Hopefully this is a good example for you, or you find the topic interesting. Either way, I enjoyed writing it more than I expected and wanted to share. In the 1911 edition of Miami Metropolis, Thomas Edison is quoted: “Gold has even now but a few years to live. The day is near when bars of it will be as common and as cheap as bars of iron or blocks of steel.” In 1915, only a few years after Edison’s claim,