Tips for winning college scholarships
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🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
With the rising cost of college in the United States, you can’t sleep on scholarships. This week, Yanely Espinal chats with Youssef Hasweh, a scholarship wiz who got a full ride to University of Chicago, about finding the right scholarships for you, keeping those applications and deadlines organized, and understanding what “full ride” really means.
Think you’re financially inclined? Dig deeper into scholarships.
- Find more from Hasweh at Youssef University.
- Check out this Forbes list of the “9 Best Scholarship Websites and Search Engines.”
- Consult this handy guide of mistakes students make when applying for scholarships and how to avoid them.
- There’s also this U.S. News & World Report how-to guide to help you find and apply for scholarships.
Are you in an educational setting? Here’s a handy listening guide.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey parents and teens, this episode of Financially Incline is presented in |
| 0:04.4 | partnership with Greenlight, the money up for teens with investing. College tuition, |
| 0:08.8 | room and board, textbooks, it all adds up fast. |
| 0:12.8 | Today's episode dives into the world of college scholarships, |
| 0:16.0 | and the process is a lot less scary than you think, |
| 0:18.9 | especially if you learn to manage your money. |
| 0:21.8 | That's what Greenlight is for, to help you learn to earn, save, invest, |
| 0:25.2 | and even build credit so you can build healthy financial habits for college and life. |
| 0:30.4 | For limited time, our listeners can get $10 when they sign up today at Greenlight.com slash inclined. |
| 0:36.0 | That's Greenlight.com slash IN-C-L-I-N-E-D. ED. What's up everybody? I'm Janelli Espinal and welcome to financially inclined from Marketplace. |
| 1:07.0 | We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way. |
| 1:10.0 | In this episode, we're jumping into scholarships. |
| 1:14.0 | It is super important to learn about college scholarships because it can really help you pay for |
| 1:18.3 | the cost of college. |
| 1:20.0 | We have someone on the show this week that I would call a scholarship whiz. |
| 1:24.4 | His name is Yousef Hossway and he's a senior at the University of Chicago where he received |
| 1:29.2 | a full ride to attend. |
| 1:31.2 | Now he learned that a full ride doesn't necessarily mean full because |
| 1:35.6 | it didn't include a lot of the costs and expenses that were popping up left |
| 1:38.9 | and right and that were kind of unexpected for him. That's why he turned to college scholarships to help |
| 1:44.4 | him bridge those gaps. To date he has won dozens of scholarships. I won the |
| 1:49.2 | country's hardest scholarship and got a full ride to my dream school. |
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