Student Financial Services offers the following list of scholarship search sites and opportunities as a tool to help you pursue additional funding for your education. High School students should check with their counselor since they are considered a great resource. While most scholarships are offered to incoming freshmen who are beginning college, there are organizations that offer funds to upperclassmen or to graduate students as encouragement to pursue a degree that leads to a career in that field (for example, the large number of Science, 技术, 工程, and 数学 scholarships).  

Unlike applying for need-based university, state, or federal aid using just the FAFSA, finding and applying for scholarships requires much more time and effort on the part of the student. Based upon feedback from our students who've received outside scholarships, most take the approach of applying for as many scholarships as they could find. 

One of your best bets for finding potential scholarships is to spend time searching for opportunities that match your major, 利益, 活动, 参与, and biographic background. 您会发现每个组织的应用程序都是不同的, 有些人比其他人更投入. 填写和提交大量的申请也需要时间. This isn’t meant to discourage you from looking for outside scholarships; just be aware that this process requires patience and persistence. 但如果你幸运的话, being selected for a scholarship, 即使是很小的一个, 代表了你所投入的时间的良好回报.

As a reminder, legitimate scholarship organizations will never charge you an application fee. If a group wants to charge you money to apply for their scholarship (or to receive a list of potential scholarship opportunities), you're probably being scammed. 关于奖学金诈骗的免费信息(联邦贸易委员会)

Students must notify Student Financial Services of any external funds they will receive in a given year, regardless of the amount, as these funds must be counted as a resource in meeting your educational costs and coordinated with your other sources of financial aid. 请通过myHilltop任务提交信息， 报告外部资助(学生).