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“There are scholarships for everything!”

January 27, 2020 by Anita Jones Roehrick
Gabrielle McCormick, Gaines-Jones Scholar, shares her tips: There are Scholarships for Everything

Gabrielle McCormick shares her secrets for finding scholarships. Source: NBC Nightly News 11/8/17

Gabrielle McCormick was awarded $150,000 in scholarships and now has a business helping families learn how to avoid the burden of student loans: go to scholarship informer.com.

The lesson here: BE DILIGENT: after crafting your best essay, treat the search for scholarship money like a part-time job: the payoff can be far greater. Take Gabrielle’s advice : APPLY, APPLY, APPLY! 

You can find many, many scholarship opportunities on Instagram by following: @scholarshipinformer.

January 27, 2020

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