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Georgia Program Forced to Cut College Scholarships

Published on Friday, February 4th, 2011 Nohel
Tags: college scholarships, hope, merit based scholarships, scholarships for high school

Atlanta, GA (CollegeToCareers.com) – With financial troubles looming, Georgia might soon seize the Hope scholarship program. HOPE is the largest merit-based college scholarships program in the United States. All Georgia high school students with a GPA of at least 3.0 may be eligible for four years of paid tuition in any college of their choice. [...]

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College Scholarships: There Are More Than You Think

Published on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 Ken
Tags: academic scholarships, athletic scholarships, college major, college scholarships, College Scholarships And Grants, counselors, external scholarships, Financial Aid, free money, hispanic scholarships, merit based scholarships, minority scholarships, private scholarships, scholarship for moms, scholarships, scholarships for college, scholarships for dads, school scholarships, types of scholarships, veteran scholarships, women's scholarships

Simply put, scholarships are free money. Now you may be wondering, why would anyone want to give money away for free? The answer is because the people and organizations that award scholarships to students do so in order to further the education of that individual. Depending of the donor or founder of the scholarship, each scholarship has certain and distinctive criteria that must be met (for example, a scholarship awarded by a businessman might require the student applying for the scholarship to be a business major, etc.)

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