Padding with scholarships

[Safebyahare]

So your daughter is going to college. How do you pay any difference in monies? Scholarship money.
What is a good web site or location to find this hidden scholarship money?
In my case she is here in SoCal and, out of state schools are very interested. Would like to plan or find scholarship money to pad or off set any monies that may come due.
Any advice from the Heybucket community is greatly appreciated. Thx. (getting a little fogged from looking)

[Dugout Dad]

Academics. There is a lot more money available with a high SAT/ACT/GPA scores. A good SAT class may cost $1000+, but if it bumps the SAT scores a couple hundred points, it could translate to $1000's over the 4 years. So, for example, if DD has a score of 1800 and that gets her $5000 a year, but she takes a class and bumps the score to 2000, she may be awarded $10000 or more a year. $1000 invested in a class could equal $20000+. Not a bad $1000 investment. Of course, these tuition numbers vary between public/in state/private schools.

[Safebyahare]

Thx Dugout Dad,,,, in her instance she is a 3.2 GPA and 1400 on SAT she will retake again in Oct. With that said, sure she can hit the $h!t out of a ball, but grades,,,,,,she is only OK, and SAT well,,it's not even good enough to get into a Cal state.
As far as SAT goes,,,I figure,,,1600 for Cal State,,,,,,,,1800 for UC,,,,2000 Ivy.
Which is why I am looking for hiddin scholarship money, write an essay, apply and do this, ect. I know there is scholarship money out there just getting a little tired of looking,
I know every one did not get the full ride. I also believe that they are all not 4.0 academic scholars. I know there is a way.
I know someone has a few good lists, links, sites.

edit...look an hour later I find this.
http://www.scholarshipexperts.com/showIndexScreen.htx
Also finding good stuff on HS site.

[hit4power]

I will echo the comment above about SAT tutoring. We went for the private tutor after older child didn't really get much out of the class type tutoring/practice. The in-home tutor costs a bit more, but paid huge dividends for DD. It's more expensive than the classes (although you can decide how many sessions you want) but worked well for us.

Oh, and 1800 will get you into some Ivies if they really want you.

[Sftbll4ever]

Try a couple of these:

Fastweb Scholarships
http://www.fastweb.com/

Scholarship America
http://scholarshipamerica.org/open_scholarships.php

Hispanic College Fund
http://scholarships.hispanicfund.org

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
https://apply.hsf.net/applications/

College Board
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/scholarships-grants

Just a few that I found. If your dd is wanting to be a teacher, there is always the teach grant. For this one there is actually two. One you get while in college and the other you get post graduation.

[dodgerblue]

The websites mentioned above is a good start and good grades and SAT scores helps out big time. In our case the athletic portion was ok but the coach guided us on where to find the rest of the money and in our case it worked out great. She got more merit money than athletic money so I would stress tutoring to get you there. I told one of my friends a year ago that instead of spending money on hitting lessons every week to offset a lesson and get his DD tutoring. In their case she had to opt for a CC due to grades but I'm sure she will make it back after a year.

[ontheblack]

The websites mentioned above is a good start and good grades and SAT scores helps out big time. In our case the athletic portion was ok but the coach guided us on where to find the rest of the money and in our case it worked out great. She got more merit money than athletic money so I would stress tutoring to get you there. I told one of my friends a year ago that instead of spending money on hitting lessons every week to offset a lesson and get his DD tutoring. In their case she had to opt for a CC due to grades but I'm sure she will make it back after a year.

I would echo the tutoring vs hitting lessons strategy. It can send a very clear message to the kid.

[superfan]

Each school offers different monies, I would go to the websites of your DD schools of interest and see what scholarships are availabe.

[DDG]

I will echo the comment above about SAT tutoring. We went for the private tutor after older child didn't really get much out of the class type tutoring/practice. The in-home tutor costs a bit more, but paid huge dividends for DD. It's more expensive than the classes (although you can decide how many sessions you want) but worked well for us.

Oh, and 1800 will get you into some Ivies if they really want you.

Yes. That is possible. However, you have to have the grades to back that up. Most ivy's don't bend their admissions standards just because they are athletes. Once in, they still have to survive academically. With a current GPA of 3.2 and a 1400 SAT, unless there is massive improvement to both, Ivy's are not an option.

I can't stress enough, get the grades and test scores up. That will create more options than improving a batting average by a few points.

[hit4power]

Yes. That is possible. However, you have to have the grades to back that up. Most ivy's don't bend their admissions standards just because they are athletes

That is correct and I did not intend for my post to imply otherwise. Someone with strong grades, taking honors/AP/IB courses from a top rated HS can get into (at least some) Ivies with 1800s on the SAT, but they won't bend standards and they do limit the number of athletes they will take at these "lower" test score levels.
Although people tend to lump the Ivies (or NESCAC, NEWMAC, etc) schools as being very similar there are differences in how competitive the admissions process is at each of the member schools and what is the lowest acceptable set of grades/test scores, etc they will take. Dartmouth might want you to believe its admissions process is as competitive as Harvard's, but it ain't...