The best way for students to increase their chance of receiving a scholarship is by filling out all of the questions in ScholarshipUniverse each year. Students are asked questions about demographic, academic, and extracurricular information. We ask students to make an update each year because some questions (current GPA, current academic year, career interests) may change overtime. Because some scholarships have very specific criteria, knowing that a student is from a rural high school, interested in a certain major, etc. can help the Scholarship Coordinators pair them with that scholarship. Each college/department has different awards given to First-Generation students.