Is USA Scholarship Services legit, and should you have to pay to process the application?
I
received a letter today stating that I am eligable for a scholarship
for people majoring in Nursing. It says that there is a $25 processing
fee, but it would be refunded if you fail to qualify for at least
$1,000. I have never had to pay for a scholarship before. I was
wondering if anyone has any info on this. I looked up the web page for
them and it has different scholarships available for different majors.
But how do can you tell if it is a legit scholarship program???
Financial Aid - 5 Answers
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1 :
Scam, You never have to pay to recieve Scholarships
2 :
You
should not have to pay someone to help you find a scholarship. You are
basically paying them to help you find scholarships that ARE NOT
GUARANTEED becuase you paid them. You can do that on your own by going
to websites like www.collegeanswer.com. They hold over 2.4 million
different type of scholarships and just for using there service which
again it is free you are entered to a 1,000 scholarships giveaway. All
you do is fill out your profile like who you are what are your interest,
etc... www.fastweb.com is another good one. When you fill out the FAFSA
to apply for Federal aid be careful when you enter the web address. If
you go to www.fafsa.com it takes you to a service to where you pay a fee
they will fill out the FAFSA for you claiming that they will guarantee
your FAFSA is complete accuratly and track it for you. Although they may
be a legite service there is no need to pay some to fill it out for you
when it is easy to complete and there are edits even within the FAFSA
on the web to catch common errors. If there are errors you or the school
can update them online quick and easy. The offical website to complete
the FAFSA is www.fafsa.ed.gov. If you do not understand something you
can call the Federal processors for free and you can also call your
schools financial aid office. Do not pay them. Save that money!!!
3 :
You can get free scholarship info here:
http://www.thebigwww.com/scholarship.html
4 :
http://www.lehigh.edu/~infao/index.htm
go
to this url above!!! I just received a letter today about this USA
Scholarship Services Scholarship for Biology majors to receive $7,500
scholarship and asking for 25 bucks!!! Or in other words the same one
as you...so I decided to google its name b/c it sounded like a scam and
long and behold this was the first thing that popped out on the url held
above
[ IMPORTANT MESSAGE:
We have recently been made aware that Lehigh University students are
being solicited by scholarship search companies. We strongly urge you
to check any company with the Better Business Bureau and we advise
against using any company that requires payment to do a search. Lehigh
University does not sell names to any company. The two most recent
solicitations were issued through "College Financial Advisory" and "USA
Scholarship Services". ]
If you follow the page to a link in the bottom for Scholarship Scams and
search for this supposed "USA Scholarship Services" it will show you
all of it court cases and fraudalent activity. You could probably find
any other legit or illegit scholarship companies on the site. Good luck I
know all us health majors need it!!!
And just in case I am under my little brother's user name because I
don't have a yahoo id and I just stumbled upon your post through google,
so if anyone else needs to see this here's your red flag!!!!
:-)
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