Discus Awards

College hopefuls, meet Dean Andrew Flagel, Dean of Admissions and Associate Vice President for Enrollment Development for George Mason University. Dean Flagel has his own blog, Not Your Average Admissions Blog, which he updates a couple times a month with information on financial aid opportunities and the college admissions process from the valuable perspective of a Dean of Admissions.

Light-years ahead of your typical Dean of Admissions when it comes to technology and outside-the-box thinking, Dean Flagel is doing his best to bring college prep advice to students in a form they understand.

Do you find college admissions blogs helpful? What do you like about them?

Filed under: Discus Dan • Blog of the Day

Scholarship search engines are great scholarship resources, but it often takes time for them to highlight new scholarships as they tend to do this in batches. This is why it can be helpful to bring in the human element, like we have in the upkeep of our Best List of College Scholarships.

Well, so too has Kristin Morris, blogging for ScholarshipPoints.com. The blog covers many topics from scholarship news to profiles of past scholarship winners, but my personal favorite feature is the new scholarships alert. This is a really useful weekly to bi-weekly article highlighting new scholarship opportunities.

I would definitely recommend following this blog. To see what I’m raving about, click here.

Filed under: Discus Dan • Blog of the Day • College Prep • Financial Aid & Scholarships

From the department of “I wish I’d thought of that name” comes a blog focused intently on providing information on a variety of scholarship opportunities. Scholarship Man features about a post a week on a new or interesting scholarship opportunity. Unlike the FastWebs and Scholarships.coms of the world, the Scholarship Man provides in depth information on each scholarship including links to multiple scholarships within one scholarship program and suggestions for similar scholarships.

Just imagine if I were “Discus Dan the Scholarship Man.” Unfortunately for me Michael Turner, an instructor at a major university in Nashville, Tennessee and an experienced scholarship coach, claimed the title of Scholarship Man. However, thankfully for all of us, he has used that name for good – to provide us with detailed, up-to-date descriptions of lots of scholarships that you might be eligible for!

Click here to read the Scholarship Man’s blog and find your scholarships today!

Filed under: Discus Dan • Blog of the Day • College Prep • Financial Aid & Scholarships

A collaboration between education bloggers Callie Herd and “tha artivist” has produced one of the most all-encompassing blogs for high school students preparing for college. The site features lots of information and links on everything from test prep to scholarship and financial aid information, community service opportunities to internship and job opportunities, and much, much, more!

In fact, there’s so much information on Planning and Preparing for College (Scholarships, Internships, Etc), it can be somewhat intimidating to try and look for answers. So, we’re going to have a little scavenger hunt to make learning fun!

Find the answers to the following questions on the site, and post them in the comments section. The first 5 people to post all the correct answers will each be featured in a special blog post on this site!

The questions:

1) Who is the man in the picture in the right column above the quote?

2) When is the deadline to apply for a summer job in the IRS?

3) What are 3 helpful sites that the blog links to on the right side of the page?

Filed under: Discus Dan • Blog of the Day • College Prep • College Admissions • Financial Aid & Scholarships