With that you may want to apply for scholarships. An expert on how to score free money is in town sharing his tips and tricks to paying for college at any age.
College application season is upon us and paying for tuition may come easy if you can answer these three questions:
"So how do you find scholarships right for you? How do you organize the game plan to maximize your chances? And how do you leverage your chances to win?" says Ben Kaplan, author and founder of CityofCollegeDreams.org.
Kaplan is a Harvard University graduate who paid for his economics degree entirely with scholarship money.
"I was a tennis player, so I assumed I would go to college on a tennis scholarship, but I got an injury and I needed a different way to pay for school."
He scored dozens of scholarships totaling $90,000 and graduated from his dream school with no debt. Now he travels the world helping people from middle and high school to college to adulthood with finding scholarship money.
"There’s so many tens of thousands of providers, they all want to recognize different things that’s why there’s scholarships for everyone."
The Oregon resident has written 12 best-selling books on how to pay for college and founded www.CityofCollegeDreams.org to help people find the money they need to further their education.
"The mission is that over the past 10 years I have helped saved families half a billion dollars in college costs."
The 35 year old says there are scholarships for people of all ages from all backgrounds you just have to know how to find them.
"I was debt free no student loans this really is possible I am living proof of that."
The Public can register for Ben Kaplan’s free scholarship workshops at: http://events.benkaplan.com/hawaii/
Space is limited.
Monday, October 22
Leilehua High School
Time: 7 – 8 p.m.
1515 California Ave., Wahiawa, HI 96786
Tuesday, October 23
Kaimuki High School
Time: 7 – 8 p.m.
2705 Kaimuki Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816
See the original article at: KHON2 Developing Stories
