Congratulations Stephen Yellin of Drew University!!!!

Stephen is our Grand Prize winner and will be receiving $5000 for his college education.

But there’s more…

We have decided to award our 2nd and 3rd place finalists with $1000 each! So congrats to Paul Stamatiou and Shelly Batts.

Stop by and congratulate them:

Stephen Yellin
Paul Stamatiou
Shelly Batts

There’s even more..
All of our other finalists will be receiving $100!

See our complete list of 10 finalists here.

Our Other Scholarships:

Don’t forget about our foundation’s other 6 scholarships. They are each awarded 4 times per year. See our complete list of scholarships.

More Financial Aid Options:

If you like to hunt for all possible funding opportunities, we also provide a huge categorized list of additional scholarship and grant resources.

We’re also finishing up on a Google-powered topic specific search engine for all college related financial aid. More to come soon…

We Want a Resident Blog Writer

20-30 posts per month at $1000. Read all about it here.

Next Year’s Blogging Scholarship:

Please leave constructive comments below about what we should do next year for an even greater Blogging Scholarship. A perfect example would be the comment from Jim Benton. The first comment here is a copy of his comment from another post.

In our previous post we linked through to the blogs of the finalists for The Blogging Scholarship.

If you or a friend were nominated as a finalist, make sure you ask friends, family, and classmates to vote. You may also be able to increase your chances of winning by blogging about the scholarship or asking your readers to blog about you. Please don’t directly stuff the ballot box though because we track the votes using IP addresses, cookies, etc.
Best of luck to everyone. The poll closes at midnight Eastern time on November 5th. The winner will be announced on the morning of November 6th, 2006.

Update: The Winner has been announced!
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I want to personally thank everyone who helped with this new scholarship: fellow bloggers, professors, college faculty members, and certainly all of you who submitted an application or nominated someone else.

We received many great applications over the past week and after making some difficult decisions, we have compiled our list of finalists.
Here they are:

• Shelly Batts
• Matthew Himler
• Kambiz Kamrani
• Benjamin Kimball
• Pranam Kolari
• Lisa Marie
• Matthew Mireles
• Paul Stamatiou
• Jennifer Wong
• Stephen Yellin

FYI – Some of our finalists are group bloggers, in which case we link to a profile page on the website where they make blog posts.

Go here now and cast your vote!