A scholarship is, to put it simply, free money that you can earn to put towards paying for college.

Unlike other types of financial aid, such as loans, money that you earn from scholarships does not ever need to be repaid. 

In addition to the Access Scholarships search engine, scholarship directory, and our blog posts, there are tons of other places and resources you can check out to help you search and apply for scholarships. 

A great place to head to next are the website(s) run by your state that outline state-based financial aid and scholarship opportunities. These sites often include information on state financial aid programs (or smaller, more local scholarship opportunities) that you can apply to (or may be automatically considered for) just by filling out your FAFSA. 

Another awesome resource to utilize is your school counselor or college's scholarship office, to learn about local scholarship opportunities that might be more specific to your neighborhood, major, interests, etc.  

Nope, not at all! There are scholarships out there for students of all years - ranging from opportunities for middle school students, all the way to undergraduate college students, masters students, and beyond! 

Great question! One of the main ways that you can stand out through your application is through the extra requirements that you submit.

Whether it's an essay, a video, letters of recommendation, or other additional submissions, these are all places where you will want to dedicate extra time and effort to make sure that what you're sending in is authentically YOU, unique, eye-catching, and memorable. 

We created Access Scholarships with the primary goal of making access to scholarships easier in every way possible. Along with this goal, we strive to include only opportunities that are up-to-date and 100% legit.

Before a new scholarship gets added to our site, our team does performs thorough  checks to ensure that it meets our standards. On this note, while we aim to add as many new scholarships to our database as we can, we also frequently remove scholarships when we notice they no longer meet our standards. 

If you come across a scholarship on our site that doesn't seem right, please feel free to submit it via this form, or reach out to us at [email protected] so we can investigate!

If you have questions about a specific opportunity, the best course of action is to get in touch with the scholarship provider. Each of the scholarships in our database is linked to the actual provider's website, if you click "Apply Online". The scholarship page itself should have the contact information of someone you can direct questions to.

If the scholarship is offered by Access Scholarships, you can reach out to us at [email protected]!