GOBankingRates Scholarship
**Applications are currently closed and will reopen at a future date.** GOBankingRates is a personal finance resource designed to make learning about money and managing your finances more fun and less intimidating with offices in Los Angeles, New York City and Bethlehem, PA. With a focus on how money intersects with your personal goals, travel, politics, celebrity, food and events, we aim to engage, entertain and foremost, educate.Scholarship Details
We know how expensive college can be and how great of a burden debt can be. Especially student loans. This $2,500 scholarship is another way for GOBankingRates to help one student on their journey through college and into a financially-stable future.
Through thoughtful savings, investing, scholarships, student discounts, and, yes, loans, education expenses can be managed and manageable.
Our scholarship is for the Fall 2018 semester. To apply, please answer the prompt below in essay form.
How to Apply
The application period will occur annually with scholarships awarded in the Fall semester. The Fall application period is from April 1-June 15 2018. The form and accompanying submission must be completed within this window.
Eligibility
Must be a legal U.S. resident, 18 years of age or older at the time of application. Scholarship is available to graduating high school students or students currently enrolled as a freshman, sophomore or junior at an accredited US college or university.
Entry is subject to official rules and conditions. As set forth in the official rules, entry grants GOBankingRates permission to republish and otherwise use your entry materials and your name and likeness in any way GOBankingRates sees fit including but not limited to use on subsidiary and third-party properties. No purchase is necessary and no fees are required to enter.
Judging Criteria
Entries will be evaluated upon the following criteria:
- Insight and consideration of response question
- Contest-entry essay quality, execution and originality
