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Some good sites for scholarships are RaiseMe, Scholarships.com, Scholarship Owl, Fast web, and College Xpress. RaiseMe is no-essay completely, but what colleges you鈥檙e looking at would depend on what鈥檚 available to you on there. With the others, find scholarships that require some sort of effort on your end (an essay, video, etc.); the one-click scholarships are a nice opportunity but I treat them as if I鈥檓 never going to win them, EVERYONE applies for them. Also, based on your ACT depending on where you go there may be a merit scholarship available (the college I鈥檓 planning on goes as low as 26). There are also grants available for being first-gen. There are fafsa鈥檚 to fill out in senior year that will determine how much aid you qualify for during your senior year.

If working is something available to you, that counts as an extracurricular and it鈥檚 nice to be able to save for future expenses. Otherwise, again if you have available time, try to volunteer at places like hospitals or health centers based on the career you want. During your senior year or over the summer, you can take AP or DE courses, and if you get good scores either on exams or the class itself it counts for some college credit, and it鈥檚 cheaper to take those classes in high school rather than waiting until you鈥檙e in college to take them.

There are also several accounts you can set up if you can save up a bit, depending on the length of time you鈥檙e able to leave the money in the account. An example of these includes CD accounts (a higher-interest savings account, but you must leave money in the account be for a while. Rules on these vary quite a bit).

Also, if all else fails, there鈥檚 always loans. It鈥檚 the last option but it鈥檚 there. I don鈥檛 know much about them so I can鈥檛 offer up much here, I just know they鈥檙e an option.

Good luck, I wish you all the best!