Posts by Maya E.

What if a scholarship covered your full tuition, handed you up to $46,000 a year, guaranteed you a summer internship, and then guaranteed you a job the moment you graduated?…

College Board's BigFuture Scholarships award $500 to 90 students every month, just for completing basic college-planning tasks on the BigFuture website. No essay required. Complete all six tasks, and you…

The Live Your Dream: Education & Training Award for Women, run by Soroptimist, provides cash grants to women who are the primary financial support for their families and are pursuing…

Breakthrough Junior Challenge offers a $250K college scholarship and all you have to do to win is submit a two minutes science video.  The 2026 Breakthrough Junior Challenge is now…

The Elks National Foundation's Most Valuable Student Scholarship awards 500 four-year scholarships nationally to U.S. high school seniors, ranging from $1,000 to $7,500 per year, with the top 20 finalists…

The Killam Fellowships Program, administered by Fulbright Canada, funds undergraduate students to spend a semester or full academic year as an exchange student across the Canada-US border - Canadians studying…

QuestBridge National College Match connects high-achieving high school seniors from low-income backgrounds to full, four-year scholarships - tuition, fees, room, board, and books, with no loans and no expected family…

Last cycle, more than 3,000 people applied for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship. Thirty were selected. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans funds up to $90,000…

If you read our piece on the Boren Awards, one detail probably stuck with you: the one-year federal service requirement attached to that money. Here's the version of that same…

What would you actually do with $25,000 and a one-way ticket to somewhere the language isn't English? Search for the Boren Award online and you'll get three different numbers depending…

Nearly 80% of community college students say they want a bachelor's degree. Only 16% of them actually get one within six years. That gap isn't really about ability. It's about…

What if getting into university abroad cost you nothing at all - not tuition, not rent, not even the language course you'd need to survive your first semester? That's genuinely…