Scholarships for Middle Class Students
Find scholarships for students that are not based on financial need!
Are you a middle-class student looking for scholarships to help pay for college?
Do you want to find merit-based scholarships, college scholarships without financial need, scholarship contests, and student awards that can help reduce the cost of higher education?
Are you wondering whether scholarships exist for students from middle-income or higher-income households who do not qualify for need-based financial aid?
Scholarships for Middle Class Students answers all of these questions and more in this newly revised and updated second edition!
Many students and parents assume scholarships are only available to families with significant financial need. Also, students from middle-class families often do not qualify for many need-based scholarships, yet they still face substantial college costs and may need to rely heavily on student loans. This debt can create a long-term financial burden for both students and parents.
Scholarships for Middle Class Students shows readers that valuable scholarship opportunities, financial aid alternatives, and college funding resources are available to help reduce college costs, minimize student loan debt, and protect parent savings and retirement accounts. This guide highlights full-ride scholarships, full-tuition scholarships, merit scholarships, cash prize contests, and other awards available to students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership, achievement, talent, and other qualities that can lead to college funding.
In Scholarships for Middle Class Students, Marianne Ragins, a $400,000 scholarship winner and experienced scholarship workshop leader, teaches students and families how to find scholarships for middle-class students, merit-based scholarships, no-need scholarships, and cash prize contests, even if they do not qualify for need-based aid. From achievement-based awards to significant monetary prizes, this practical guide provides strategies for finding scholarship money, paying for college, reducing reliance on student loans, and making higher education more affordable. Readers will discover proven ways to secure funding for college while helping preserve family savings and retirement resources.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, MARIANNE RAGINS
In Marianne Ragins senior year of high school, she won over $400,000 in scholarships for college. As perhaps the first student ever to amass nearly half a million dollars in scholarship money, she has been featured in many publications including USA Today, People, Newsweek, Money, Essence and on the cover of Parade. She has also made hundreds of radio and television appearances on shows such as “Good Morning America,” “The Home Show,” and the “Mike & Maty Show.”
Ragins is the author of the highly successful Winning Scholarships for College: An Insider’s Guide, College Survival & Success Skills 101, and other publications. She is the president of The Scholarship Workshop and sponsor of the Leading the Future II and Ragins Braswell National Scholarships. Ragins is an experienced motivational speaker and lecturer who has traveled nationally and internationally conducting The Scholarship Workshop presentation and giving other motivational seminars and speeches.
Marianne graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science from Florida A&M University and received an MBA from George Washington University. Both her degrees were entirely funded by scholarships and other free aid. Marianne is originally from Macon, Georgia and currently resides in northern Virginia.