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By: Howard Dvorkin

This month’s Debt.com scholarship winner suffered a tumor in her brain as a child. Her hardship is now her motivation to become a physician.

By: Howard Dvorkin

This month’s Debt.com scholarship winner wants to use her earnings to help her work toward a degree in medicine to help people in her home country of Haiti.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Debt.com scholarship winner for this month survived the adversity of her mother’s death, and is inspired to use the experience to help others.

By: Howard Dvorkin

This month’s Debt.com scholarship winner for aggressive scholarship applicants plans to work as a nurse after she graduates from college.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Katie Waples has five siblings, four parents, and big plans. The 17-year-old from Billings, Montana, wants to be a nurse — not just as a career, but as a calling. This is what she told Debt.com.

By: Howard Dvorkin

“I have put in 250-300 hours to scholarship applications,” he says proudly, almost defiantly. “I have applied for approximately 96 scholarships now, and I plan to keep adding on to that number so that I can increase my chances of winning more money to reduce my college expenses.” Read more.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Learn how this scholarship winner got rid of her financial problems. Isabella McQueen is the latest winner of the Debt.com Scholarship for Aggressive Scholarship Applicants. McQueen grew up in New York. Her parents were teachers, but they had a lot to learn themselves about finances.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Mackenzie Weiss calls herself “an aspiring student with a lack of funds.” Sadly, that describes many high school seniors these days.

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Holly Montsari graduated from college years ago, but now she’s going back to school while working in a school. Confused? Welcome to Montsari’s life.

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Will Amouzou is 17, but he doesn’t aspire to be a sports star or movie star. He wants to be a chief financial officer. He’s our latest scholarship winner.

By: Howard Dvorkin

John Pawloski is Debt.com’s 13th Scholarship winner. He recently decided to take his career in a different direction. Find out why!

By: Howard Dvorkin

Caitlyn Remick knows how to dress up, and save up. Here’s some of the scholarship tips that she used as a student in high school into college.