Scholarships
Free National Scholarship Search at
FastWeb
Freshman Scholarships available through UWSP's Admissions office
Minority
Scholarships: the UWSP Director of Equity and Affirmative Action
recommends these websites for consideration for minority students.
Beware of scholarship search scams where you may be asked to pay a
fee or provide a credit card or checking account number to be provided
with a list of scholarships. Don't be enticed by claims that there are
guaranteed results and that you will "get your money back" if you fail
to land a scholarship. Any money you spend on these searches will be
lost forever whether you get a scholarship or not. There is no need to
pay a lot of money to search for a scholarship. Reputable companies
will do it for free. Also, avoid any offers to pay your college bills
if you submit an initialization fee, these are always going to be
scams that will end up losing you money.
UWSP is pleased to offer you direct access to the Student Services,
Inc.
FastWeb scholarship search
program via the Internet at no cost. This excellent service is
provided free of charge to the students across the nation by a number
of FastWeb sponsors. After you input your personal information, a
search will be provided in the Fastweb database which has over
1,000,000 scholarships listed in their database. You will be given a
list of scholarship sources to which you may write for a scholarship
application. Take the time to contact all the sponsors listed, and you
might just land yourself one. The Student Services Company will
maintain a mailbox for you. Since their database is continually
expanding, new matches are made all the time and added to your
mailbox. Revisit the mailbox every so often to see if anything has
been added. If you provide an E-mail address, Fastweb will even send
you a notice when a new scholarship match is made. This is an
excellent service.
During the search, there will be an opportunity to link up with
these sponsors to learn more about their products and services which
have many impressive materials for you to view. There is, of course,
no obligation to make any kind of purchase.
There are a few other free scholarship search services available,
but we are less certain of their reliability and database
extensiveness, currency, or if they screen out fee-based scams which
would cause you to lose money. For these reasons we no longer offer
links to alternative searches.
