About the Book

Whether standing in line after one of Ben Kaplan’s scholarship workshops or surfing online at his ScholarshipCoach.com website, thousands of students, parents, and counselors have asked The Scholarship Coach essentially the same question: “Now that we know exactly what we need to do, can you help us actually do it?” In response, Ben has engineered the next generation in scholarship tools and technology—the Scholarship Seeker’s Toolbox.

Designed to perfectly complement How to Go to College Almost for Free and The Scholarship Scouting Report, this toolbox features strategic worksheets to complete, useful action steps to check off, helpful exercises to jump-start your thinking, special calendar organizers to post up, and plenty of ready-to-use templates—plus a friendly dialogue style that puts The Scholarship Coach himself right beside you, guiding you through each form, task, and exercise.

Could you benefit from special brainstorming worksheets that help you quickly identify positive patterns in your experiences, and translate those themes into persuasive writing? What about mock judging ballots on which parents, teachers, and friends can help critique your scholarship application drafts? Or how about diagnostic self-analysis tools that help you identify and hammer out application trouble spots? Scholarship Seeker’s Toolbox has all of this and so much more.

Designed for students and parents to work through on their own, as well as for guidance counselors and teachers who need a curriculum guide and textbook for school-administered courses, this one-of-a-kind resource makes finding, applying for, and winning scholarships a matter of simply turning the pages and following the instructions. By integrating thoughtful exercises with analytic tools, Scholarship Seeker’s Toolbox actually coaches you, in an interactive way, to better scholarship results.