Title: College Outside the Box
Author: Clay Gibson
Prize: Full-ride CollegePlus! Scholarship
Clay’s video essay won the grand prize scholarship because he captivated our attention, he was creative, and the content was clear and concise. Clay offered several viable options to avoiding college debt and he did it with style.
Title: The Way to Freedom
Author: Taylor White
Prize: $1000 CollegePlus! Scholarship
Although Taylor’s video essay was deficient in visual flair, Taylor did an outstanding job clearly communicating the problems and solutions for college debt. Taylor’s concepts and ideas were well thought-out and well presented. We loved the emphasis on personal responsibility.
Title: Wise Solutions to Fix the Soaring College Debt Crisis
Author: Cindy Dittmer
Prize: Full-ride CollegePlus! Scholarship
Cindy’s written essay won the grand prize because she offered the most creative, innovative, and outside-the-box solutions to help students avoid college debt. The ideas are fresh, the concepts are enlightening, and the essay is very well written.
Author: Meriah Wieland
Prize: $1000 CollegePlus! Scholarship
Meriah did thorough research on the college debt crisis and she crafted a written essay that offered both wise and practical solutions. We particularly liked Meriah’s ideas about encouraging the colleges to consider positive reforms, to depend less on government money, and for there to be less “college elitism”.
Title: Wise Solutions to Fix the Soaring College Debt Crisis
Author: Anna Heritage
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