An editorial review, analysis, and commentary of the Scholarships.Com search service

A review of Scholarships.Com

In a nutshell, Scholarships.Com is a Scholarship matching service. Scholarships.Com claims that " since 1999, we have helped millions of students, parents and counselors search 2.7 million local, state & national college scholarships & grants worth over 19 billion dollars...". Scholarships.Com claims claims to have a database of at least 1.5 million scholarships as of the time this article was first published.

In order to carefully review Scholarships.Com, we must review Scholarships.Com with the same set of criteria we use for other scholarship databases. We review their scholarship history, their scholarship creativity, their scholarship published claims vs. documented facts by government or idependent agencies, and we review such factors as their Scholarship Yield, Scholarship Quotient, FaceBook habits, their FaceBook likeability, their receptivity to competitive scholarship listing sources, the quality of their scholarship listings, their scholarship advertising claims, their duplicate scholarship listings, their excluded scholarship listings, their association with other scholarship listing services, and the success rate of their scholarship recipients.

What students need to know about Scholarships.Com and Scholarship Search Services

Students need to know that all scholarship search services are not the same, but many rely upon the same database. Scholarship Search services, including Scholarships.Con, do differ from one another in several respects. Some scholarship search services have varying criteria inorder for a particular scholarship, grants, or financial-aid to be included. The "criteria" that is used is arbitrary, capricious, selective, and certainly not uniform. Beware of Scholarship Search companies that create their own so-called "criteria" to justify having a censored scholarship database.

Scholarships.Com was tested in June 2012, July, 2012. Scholarship sponsorrs were recruited to contact Scholarships.Com via their social media channels. Scholarships.Com reportedly either rebuffed their efforts, or incorporating Facebook blocks. Any scholarship search service that blocks, censors, or obstructs the objective of students seeking financial-aid is probably a scholarship search service that you do not want to rely upon.