Free Scholarships Blog

Savings are important for keeping you out of debt and planning for the future whether that’s college, a car, a wedding or a home. Starting to save as early on as possibly is a smart idea even if you only save a tiny amount because over a long period of time that adds up. That’s why we’re offering 50 free scholarship points to you if you sign up for an ING Direct Orange Savings account.

An Orange Savings account is free, pays you higher interest than the typical bank for your money, is online, works with your current bank automatically and only requires a nominal deposit (like $1.00). We can’t think of any reason why students shouldn’t have one and so we’re encouraging you to start saving with this promotion. I even signed up for one myself before agreeing to give you the link!

Sign up now for an Orange Savings Account.

To receive your 50-point code: Send an email to members@scholarshipoints.com with ORANGE in the subject line and the last 4 digits of your account number in the email for verification. Your new account number will be displayed on the confirmation page after you sign up.

At ScholarshipPoints.com our job is to gain as many active members as possible. The more active members we have the more we are able to give away in free scholarships. A year ago we gave away $250 per month and had just 3,500 members. We’ve been growing quickly in 2008 and so we now we give away $1,000 per month plus two $10,000 scholarships this year.

With your help we can push the free college scholarships even higher. One of the most important things for us to do is to bring in more web traffic. Links to our site from high school and college websites are a giant help to us. If your school offers a link to free college scholarships or financial aid resources for students we would all benefit from getting a link posted from there to our website. If you accomplish that, send us an email with the page the link is on and we just might be so happy we’ll give you a special thank you code for extra free scholarship points.

Here is some recommended text for an email you might send:

Dear (name),

I am a student at (your school) and I’m also a member of a website that gives away free college scholarships to students every month. Its a really cool idea, they ask us to take short surveys and look at free educational guides in return for points which we then redeem for entries. They just gave away $10,000! It would be great if you could add a link to them on our website so that other students at (your school) could have access to these free scholarships.

The link is: http://www.ScholarshipPoints.com

Thank you,

(your name)

I just put up two surveys which will help us improve the program and score you 15 points each! To my amazement, we’ve already had more than 10 responses in only 10 minutes! You guys are good! Here are the surveys. Take them now. Win Free Scholarships.

Scholarship Points Member Communications Survey

Point Activities Survey

I’ve also been getting some great emails abut the program and we’ve had a few forum posts. Keep up the good work. The more you all contribute and interact the more time we’ll spend on the program and the more  Free Scholarship money we’ll be able to make available to you all!

Phew. February was a busy month around here. We had three winners to choose. We had the February $250 Scholarship winner (now $1,000 Scholarship) to choose, we had the $10,000 scholarship winner to choose and we had the refer-a-friend champion iPod winner to crown champion. I am pleased to announce we have confirmations from all 3 winners so if you were not contacted I’m sorry but you didn’t get it this time.

I don’t yet have all the information for the 2 randomly drawn free college scholarship winners but when I get it from them I’ll be posting it on the Winners Page. I do have all the infor for the refer-a-friend champion however and a shiny new iPod Touch is on its way to Chris Romanowicz at the University of Iowa. Congratulations Chris!

A few of you might be saying, “hey, I referred a zillion friend’s how did anybody beat me?”. Come on, we have time stamps on entries and access to all the data for every friend you referred. I took several days to go through it all looking for cheaters so friends like asdfasdf asddfas with an email address like 124rwertq@yahoo.com got you disqualified and we stated that would happen in the rules.

With any luck I’ll be releasing the names of the other 2 February winners this week but hey we’re halfway to the March free scholarship drawing so get going and win the $1,000 would you? Its being sponsored by www.FafsaOnline.com so go fill out your FAFSA as well.

I’m Point Guard. I  do most of the management of www.ScholarshipPoints.com, the best free college scholarship site around, at least that’s what we strive for. I also do lots of the management for a few other site you might care about such as www.StudentPlatinum.com which provides student credit cards, credit card help and credit education. Then there is also www.HowToGetIn.com which is a great site for people not yet in college, its got a really good school search which we are working on improving all the time.

I myself went to school at the University of Maine at Orono and got a degree in Education so I like to work on these educational sites and help students get into college and pay for it! Drop me a line and say hello sometime. The best way is in the forum: http://forum.scholarshippoints.com. I live just outside of Boston, have a ferocious Bichon named Rudy (the underdog) and play sports and ride motorcycles when I’m not running these sites.

Welcome to the premier post of the greatest free college scholarship blog ever! I’m Point Guard and I currently do most of the management for the site: www.ScholarshipPoints.com. If you don’t know, www.ScholarshipPoints.com is a free scholarship program where high school, college and graduate students register with us and then do different things online to earn points. Points can then be converted to entries into various scholarships. The reason its so cool is that it costs you nothing to sign-up and earn points, points become much like play money, the play money buys entries which are sort of like lottery tickets and if you win, well that is real money. Where else can you convert your play money into real money?