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| June 25, 2012
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One Year Free Tuition Scholarship

Zinch is offering a pretty generous $20,000 scholarship to students with outstanding engagement with the site. Essentially, the main objective of this scholarship is the quality of your Zinch profile. The more you’re engaged with your profile (completion, endorsements, uploaded media, etc) the higher your chances of winning. This is their most lucrative, longest-running scholarship that runs throughout the year. They break the scholarship down to 4 quarters in the year (starting in January, April, July, and October). And in each quarter, 100 finalist will be selected; ten from each category listed below:

  • Engineering
  • Life Sciences
  • Computers & Technology
  • Performing Arts
  • Digital Media & Design
  • Social Media & Communication
  • Student Athlete
  • Community Service
  • Business & Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership & Government

One Quarterly Category Super Student (one out of the ten from each category) will be chosen in each quarter to receive a $250 Chegg book scholarship prize. At the end of the year, there will be a total of 40 Quarterly Category Super Students. These students will have their profiles reviewed by a panel of judges to determine the Grand Prize winner ($20,000 scholarship). Additionally, three honorable mentions will be chosen to receive a $1,000 scholarship. In total (including the 40 $250 book scholarships) Zinch will award $33,000 in prizes to students with the best profiles. This is definitely an advantageous program to be involved with so signing up is a no-brainer. The deadline is January 15 2013 .

Application Process

The application is real simple. Just complete it by filling out pertinent information that they can use to match you with scholarships and colleges. After that, it’s important you keep updating your Zinch profile and ensuring that it’s complete and pristine to have the best chances of winning the scholarship. That includes listing all your experiences, any volunteer work, specialities & skills and anything that you feel will help you win the top prize. There’s also a place where you can place recommendations or references from people you’ve worked with, co-workers, teachers or anyone who can vouch for your work ethic and potential. To be eligible, you must have a minimum GPA of 2.0 and be planning to enroll in a post-secondary institution. This program also goes by the name Sweet Diggity Dawg Contest and is their most prestigious and rewarding scholarship.

About Zinch

Zinch is a great place to find scholarships and colleges that you can apply for. Along with other sites like CollegeProwler, Fastweb and Cappex, this site will often award super easy scholarships like their weekly Three Sentence Essay Scholarship which can help with the affordability of a post-secondary education. This is a good site to get connected with colleges & universities around the world. They’re owned by Chegg, a textbook rental company, and just like any other college matchmaking site is free to join. Good Luck!

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| June 14, 2012
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College Hype T-Shirt Contest

This scholarship comes from Zinch , a scholarship and college matchmaking site, that’ll award $1,000 to a student who creates the best “college hype design” for a new t-shirt they want to feature. It’s open to all US citizens who are in high school or college and are 16 years or older. When designing your t-shirt, be as original and creative as you can exhibiting enthusiasm about going to college. This is a fairly unique scholarship that can be fun and easy to do especially if you have an eye for design or any type of artistic flair. For everyone else, it can sometimes be helpful looking at other t-shirt designs to spur inspiration. Regardless, this scholarship shouldn’t be too difficult for anyone to apply for. Just be sure that in your design you lavish your t-shirt with anything related to the college experience that can include “sports, campus life, being on your own, learning, or anything else that gets you pumped up for college”. The Deadline is August 31 2012 .

Application Process

You’ll be asked to submit your work not exceeding 500KB in either PNG or JPG format. After which just fill out the short application describing your interests in art and design, whether you’re a college or high school student, graduation year and your GPA. It’s important that your artwork not include any intellectual property (no trademarks or copyrights) as that will be rejected. The artwork will be judged on “(1) creativity, (2) design aesthetic and (3) ability to convey enthusiasm for the college experience”. Again, this is a fun scholarship to apply for especially for those with an interest in creativity. The scholarship will be paid directly to your institution. Winners will be notified by phone or email.

About Zinch

Zinch.com will oftentimes award easy scholarships with unique application requirements that are fun and engaging to college-ready students. They offer their weekly “Three Sentence Essay” scholarship which simply requires you respond to a question in 280 characters or less. They also partner with other businesses to help them promote scholarships of their own. Normally, Zinch will judge the entries while the company provides the funds. It’s a great way to bring awareness to your company which is good for marketing purposes. Zinch streamlines the process making it easier both for the business and for applicants. If interested in learning more about Zinch or applying for one of their scholarships, it’s encouraged you create a profile in order to use their scholarship and college matchmaking service. Other popular sites that offer the same service include CollegeProwler, Cappex and Fastweb. You can view a list of 50 college and scholarship search engine sites if interested in having more to choose from.

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