Ever heard the stories about how parents empty their savings, take out second mortgages on their homes and plead with the grandparents for help as they try to put their children through college? That’s just to pay for tuition and books.
What about rent and groceries and living expenses like electricity and the cellphone bills and the water bills and yada, yada, yada? Yes, it’s expensive, stressful and bank-account-breaking to put children through college. If they can get scholarships however, life is grand and it’s the greatest day ever.
For most people, that is. Most above-average young academics race for the opportunity to gain any type of scholarship their high school grades and college-entry essays can earn them.