Category: College Scholarship

Contrary to what you may have been told, financial aid for college expenses is available for almost anyone that really wants to get a college education. However, most high school students and their parents fall victim to the ridiculous myths that exist about how difficult it is to get the financial aid they need to pay for college tuition, books, board and other expenses.

For student/athletes that play sports, college athletic scholarships are not the only avenue for obtaining the funding you may need. Even if you do obtain one of the coveted sports scholarships, it may be only a partial.

Entering college with the money in the form of scholarships, loans, and grants is mainly a matter of starting early, investigating what’s available, planning and applying for the money that is available in any given year. Above all, you cannot wait until your son or daughter is a senior in high school to start applying for the funds to meet university expenses.

“Financial Aid For College” is a financial aid book that gives you all the information you will need to ensure that your child has money for college before he enters his freshman year. This guide to scholarships lists many little known financial aid opportunities and how to apply for them. And it also explains all the many different popular financial aid sources and when and how to apply for them.

From the sophomore through the senior year in high school, you are shown on a month-by-month basis what you should be doing to make sure that the college money you need is in hand and ready when you need it. The book is written in easy-to-use language, and it leaves nothing to chance.

If you have a child who wants to go on to college after high school, and you have no idea where to start looking for the funding, this book is a must for you. It is simply the ultimate scholarship book.

How many parents have stood helplessly by watching young athletes perform in sports only to see their own son or daughter miserably break down during the actual competition? These obvious mental lapses are due to lack of mental toughness, or what the sportscaster might announce as the inability to shake the last bad play.  Mental toughness training for sports should be one of the key elements of any sports training program.

Unfortunately, while most coaches’ put much thought and effort into teaching playing skills and training the physical body, few put much emphasis on developing what is often described as the mental side of the game. And to make matters worse, teammates often ridicule an athlete for losing what is now termed composure under fire or what used to be called choking.

This is a strange attitude given that it is common knowledge that mental toughness is now considered more that 50% of an athletes overall performance. Why don’t more coaches put more emphasis on the mental aspects of the game? Frankly, it is because they have not been taught themselves how to teach young athletes how to manage what they are thinking during the competition.

Developing mental toughness is not difficult, but it is something that takes practice just as every other aspect of your game.

Fear, is a major factor for many athletes who have difficulty staying composed throughout the competition. Others are short on confidence, and some suffer from an inability to focus and pregame anxiety and there are also several other reasons too.

Fortunately, there are proven ways to overcome literally ever mental problem, and in “Mental Toughness – Quickly Master Your Mind & Dominate Your Opponent”, you will find a check list for crushing everything from fear, to lack of confidence, to failure to focus, to losing composure under fire and everything in between. Athletes are given concrete ways to stop their minds from destroying their game before they find themselves on the slippery slope of lost composure, poor performance and losing.

With the information in this book, athletes can feel confident that they have a ready arsenal for beating any mental athletic difficulty as well as a quick reference book that can easily help them develop a mind as tough as iron.

Among all the sports mental toughness books I’ve seen, this short book gives you the key to mental toughness as it relates to psychology and sports. Every young athlete whether male or female should have access to this exciting mental toughness training.

Did you know that paying for college could be as simple as having a decent GPA? We all know the price of a college education is going up every year. With the present state of the economy, how many families can afford to pick up the price tag of from $60,000 to well over a $100,000 to send each one of their children to college? Not many, of that I can assure you.

Parents, though willing, simply cannot do it, so where will the money come from? Now, more than ever before, your child’s academic performance in high school can mean the difference between getting a higher education or not.

Most high school students and their parents know that academics are important, but it is clear from the low academic scores all across the country that many do not really realize that a good GPA combined with acceptable ACT/SAT scores and well-written essays are really the admittance TICKET for college.

Good grades are a free passage to college regardless of how rich or how low on cash a family may be. If you maintain a solid GPA, score well on your SAT/ACT and have a decent essay; you will be admitted to college. It is as simple as that. There is no excuse in the U. S. for anyone not getting a higher education if they really want one.

Typically, both parents and their high school age students fail to recognize the benefits of good study habits and making good grades until it is almost too late. There may be a last ditch effort during the first semester of the senior year to start bringing the grades up, but this late effort is usually not enough.

Beginning with the ninth grade and going through the twelfth grade “ Paying For College – What To Do Academically” guides your high school student through to academic success so that when the time comes to enter college, he or she will have the academic record it takes to be admitted and they will also be ready to do well in college level courses.

This book will appeal to your son or daughter’s sense of pride and responsibility toward their classes. When they actually realize that their daily attention to their studies can be their free ticket to a college education, they suddenly begin to focus on their academics in a new and productive way. They are given the tools the need to develop sound study habits, to do well on ACT/SAT tests, and they are guided through the process of writing essays that will be approved by college admittance committees.

A solid high school academic record is like having a huge college savings fund. It relieves parents of the considerable financial burden of having to pay for college out-of-pocket, and it gives your child a fantastic opportunity to take responsibility for paying his or her way through college. This book empowers high school students to take charge of their high school academics so that college admittance is something to be counted upon rather than something to worry about.

How are college Athletic Scholarships offered? Contrary to what you may think, college sports recruiting is a process that you can easily implement. However, it is a system that very few high school athletes or their parents know about.

The truth is, if your dream is playing college sports, you have to be proactive in the recruiting process. Athletic Scholarships is the athlete’s guide, the most helpful scholarship book you will find anywhere.  It shows you step-by-step how to get recruited. It shows you how to get noticed by the coaches and also how to “recruit” the college coach. In short it tells you all about scholarships for athletes and how to get scholarships for college.

Every year, thousands of talented student athletes make the mistake of thinking the college coach will automatically come knocking on their door to recruit them. This is total myth! A college coach rarely hounds down an athlete. Not only are NCAA scholarship rules governing recruiting getting stricter, but budgets for recruiting are being severely limited by some schools.

Unfortunately, you can’t sit back and wait and hope to be recruited, and you can’t depend on your high school coach to take care of it for you either. Learn how to get noticed by the coaches and get on their college recruiting radar.  Athletic scholarships for college are available, but, for the most part, they go to the athletes that have learned how to gain the attention of college coaches.

Find out what will help you get an offer and also what will instantly keep you from getting college sports scholarships. There are certain things you must avoid if you want to stay in the running.

One of the main keys in the process of getting recruited for these coveted athletic college scholarships, is to start the process early.

Don’t give up on your dreams. Start now so that you land a spot on the college team of your dreams. Do what is necessary to get recruited. Let signing day be your biggest joy, not your biggest disappointment. Whether you are interested in football recruiting and football scholarships, or any sport, this guide can take you all the way to signing day.  It is the handbook for athletic scholarships.

Becoming a college athlete with an athletic scholarship allows you to play the sport you love and get a college education at the same time.

What could be more exciting or more rewarding?

Are summer sports camps in the cards for your son or daughter? While most parents and student athletes know that the football summer camps, basketball camps, and volleyball summer sports camps and other sports camps do exist, not many people realize just how very important attending just one sport camp can be to the process of being offered a lucrative college athletic scholarship.

The fact is, that almost every high school athlete that gets recruited to play college sports has attended one and many have attended numerous summer sports camps during their high school playing career. The value of the university and college sport camps simply cannot be overlooked if a college career in sports is the ultimate goal.

Sports recruiting experts all agree that sports camps are a critical part of the recruiting process. While they do give the young athlete, either male or female, the opportunity to develop skills and improve performance, and they also let the athlete pit his or her skills and talents against different and sometimes more advanced athletes; the main thing they do is give the hopeful college recruit the vital college coach EXPOSURE they need to actually get recruited.

Unfortunately, many student athletes and their parents do not adequately prepare to get the most out of the athletic summer camps; they typically see them as just something to do in the summer. Such an attitude toward the sports camps is a huge mistake. Actually, attending just one sport camp and making a good impression could be the ticket to a college sports scholarship.

How To Kick Butt At Sports Camp shows you exactly how to make the most of your summer camp experience; it shows you exactly how to excel at camp and how to get the college coaches to notice you.

This little book shows you in simple easy-to-understand language how to:

Prepare for camp the correct way so you can excel easily.
Behave at camp to make a good impression on the coaching staff.
Take your friends with you to play college sports.
Take advantage of camp sponsored MVP scholarship.
Evaluate the different types of camps for maximum benefit.
Size up the sports camp coaching staff to take advantage of their particular expertise.
Pay for your summer sports camps in innovative ways.
Attend multiple summer camps so you can get a college athletic scholarship to play your sport in college.

Read this book before you make the decision to attend a sports camp this summer, you will be glad you did.