The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2010: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes

Comment: This book is definitely thick! I had originally stumbled upon this book when I was researching different scholarships online and had exhausted all my resources with the search engines that were available. There is definitely a lot to go through in this book. I would highly recommend at least scanning through all of them. Each scholarship listed is very well organized, so it's easy to to so. You can easily scan for the purpose of the scholarship or who the target students are.

While I still have about a fourth of the book more to scan through, I would say there is a good variety. There are some scholarships that target high school level, few that target junior high, and some for general and specific graduate students. If you are a second or third year college undergraduate, I would say more of the scholarships are targeted for that level. Upon purchasing this book I would also highly recommend you use their website updates for their scholarships as a supplement. Each scholarship is given a code in the book that you can enter online and you can click straight from there to the scholarship website.

Overall, I would say it was a good buy. Now let's just hope I can get some of these scholarships!

Comment: The text was full of solid information. A woman attending college for the first time or returning to school from a long interruption should find the book helpful. My wife was able to dig up several financial offers, which we would not have found without the book's assistance. It was worth the discounted price.

Comment: This book has a ton of information on scholarships and grants that are available to undergraduate/graduate students.

Comment: This book is fantastic. The sheer amount of information and number of scholarships is a great tool to have at your fingertips. Not to mention that, in my opinion, it's grouped together well so that you can find scholarships that apply to you without having to work too hard. I most definitely recommend this to anyone who is going to attend college or helping someone attend college. It's not free like scholarship websites, but it does have tons more in it than those sites ever could.

My only problem comes from downright wrong information. I'm aware that fact checking a book like this would be almost impossible and that the writers probably rely on information given to them. But, I feel it has to be said. When checking out some of the sites I was eligible for, I noticed that the deadline dates in the books were sometimes wrong. For example, it stated that the deadline for a certain scholarship was March 31st, but when I went to the website, it was actually on March 15. Not a huge mistake, but one that could cost someone some college money. Another problem is the websites themselves. Some are so difficult to find the actual scholarship that I found myself using Google to find them instead of the provided website. Another website was nonexistent. Also, more than one of the scholarships listed actually hadn't existed for a couple of years (this one in particular had been defunct since 2007).

All-in-all, this book is incredible. It does have its flaws, but they are nowhere near bad enough to prevent this book from being amazing. Buy it! You won't regret it.

Comment: I decided to buy this book because my college savings is running short since I decided to attend college full time and work part time. I read a lot of good reviews about Kelly Tanabe scholarship resource books and decided that this would be the best most recent book to choose. The format is laid out very clearly and there is enough information in the book to well jump start your adventure to receiving free money. There is scholarships that range from gender, race, disabilities, merit based, professions, and everything between and beyond. GREAT BOOK!