Is TikTok becoming Gen Z’s go-to for scholarships?

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Ranking as Gen Z's 5th most common scholarship discovery source, TikTok has become part of many students' regular college financial planning routine. TikTok even ranked as Gen Z's 5th most common source for scholarship discovery. The report also discovered that not everything on TikTok is all it's cracked up to be...

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0:00.0	We are in this.
0:03.0	We are in this dichotomy here of education, a strange dichotomy where those who, those who are, I don't want to say those who are in charge of education, but I'm going to.
0:39.9	I'm going to say it that way.
0:40.8	Those who are in charge of education on one side of the fence want to push technology.
0:46.9	They want to push AI.
0:48.9	They want to push ed tech.
0:50.6	But there are others on the other, who realized the devastation that technology is causing to the hearts and minds of our young people.
1:04.4	We're going to look at that dichotomy today.
1:06.6	There's this push for screen free.
1:09.3	And then on the other side, you've got apps like the TikTok that are emerging as scholarship
1:17.0	search engines.
1:18.3	It's odd.
1:19.0	I know it's odd.
1:19.9	We're going to get into it today.
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