Archive for September, 2009

Cappex.com announces five scholarship winners for August-deadline scholarships.

	$1,000 “Psychology Scholarship” – August 2009 winner: Ashley K., from Newark, Del., a college sophomore, government and psychology double major and previous National Honor Society president. Ashley is a Habitat for Humanity volunteer and a tutor for Washington D.C.-area high school students.
	$1,000 “Health Careers & Nursing Scholarship” – August 2009 winner: Laura B., from Cadiz, Ky., a college freshman and community volunteer who wants to become a nurse, social worker, and full-time missionary. Before attending college, Laura was president of First Priority, a Christian service club at her high school, and logged over 1,200 hours of community service.
	$1,000 “Business Careers Scholarship” – August 2009 winner: Katheryn C., from George West, Texas, a business major, 4.0 student, and prior FCCLA president.
	$1,000 “I Found My College Scholarship” – August 2009 winner: Carolyn T., from Portage, Ind., a college freshman at Princeton and prior high school class valedictorian, National Honor Society president and student council president.
	$1,000 “Review My College Scholarship” – August 2009 winner: Patricia H., from Brush Prairie, Wash., who wrote a review about her school, Western Washington University. Western Washington is great for “students committed to the environment and sustainability, outdoor enthusiasts, and anybody interested in social change,” she wrote. Read her complete review on the Cappex Western Washington Profile.

Caps off to all of the winners!

Financial help arrives just in time for college search season.

A new e-book with 20 money-saving tips and secrets is available starting today for free on Cappex.com.

The fast-reading e-book titled “20 Insider Strategies to Save Money on College NOW” is published by Cappex.com, a Web site that dramatically simplifies the college search process, and MeritAid.com, a site that makes $11 billion in merit scholarships easy to find. The e-book has crucial strategies that every prospective college student simply needs to know in this economy.

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Students and their parents can download the free e-book in a pdf format at http://www.cappex.com/media/20InsiderStrategiesCappex.pdf