Scholarships

Yet another way that CollegeInvest helps you or your family achieve your financial goals, scholarships are great resources to help pay for college. Available in all shapes and sizes, for a variety of skills and accomplishments, here are five reasons why scholarships rock.

1. They almost never need to be paid back.
2. Over $59.1 billion is given out annually in merit-based scholarships or need-based grants.
3. Scholarships are given based on everything from gender to hobbies to talents to community service.
4. There are hundreds of free search engines dedicated to scholarships.
5. CollegeInvest awards scholarships!

Resources available for you or your child’s scholarship search

There are several resources available to help you or your child through the scholarship search starting with where to look for scholarships, what’s needed during the search, and how to keep all your scholarship documents organized. 

• College In Colorado: Our partner in education has great tools available to search for scholarships. Whether your child is in high school or in college.
  » Visit College In Colorado
• Other Scholarship search engines include:
  • FASTWeb
  • Federal Scholarships & Aid Gateways
  • FinAid
  • Free-4U.com