Information about grants please help!!! 10 points i promise!?

Question

would like some information about grants, I know that they are available for university and regular professional and grad school, but my case is different. I would like to get some career training but it's not a four year college, I have been looking into grants but a lot of them are scams, I'm sure.

I would like some information about how to find one (if there is such a thing)?

How is it possible to know which are scams?

I'm not even sure where to start searching!

Pardon my ignorance... personal finance is not my forte but if some smart person can help me thanks!!

If you can help me, I will so grateful! :)

Answer 1

www.fafsa.ed.gov is a free site for Grants and everything.  It is what most schools use.  You can get grants for community colleges or anything like that.  Now just to let you know they will go by your parents income if your under 24 or if your not married or if you dont have children.  Even if you dont live with them, and everything they still do.  If your already applied for the training and everything and you know for sure you got accepted, then you can fill out a FAFSA for the 2008-2009 school year.  Its really easy and its a step by step thing.

Answer 2

Without knowing anything about you (service hours, disabilities, GPA, etc.), it's extremely difficult to determine what scholarships you would be eligible for. As a general rule, you can get money "to be used for an educational purpose," not necessarily a four-year college or the like. Here are some hints:

Student loans - these are given out by the government and are therefore safe. Often they are interest free and don't require a specific educational plan (you just have to have one, or possibly an acceptance letter to your vocational school). A great thing to do with student loans is obtain as many as you can, put them in a CD (certificate of deposit) for the longest amount of time until you have to pay them back, pay the loaner back the with same money you've now withdrawn from the CD, and keep the interest. Legal and easy way to free money!

Scholarships.com - This website only offers legit scholarships, and while you have to go through an annoying amount of "free offers" and all that c**p as you sign up, the info they provide works well and is safe. Just be sure, when you provide them with an email, it's an email you've already set up to be a spam account; just get some random one from hotmail.

Essay contests - the money you obtain from these is usually non-regulated. You can use it for any educational cost.

You sound pretty desperate (didn't you post this question twice?) so just calm down, breath, and do your research. Good luck.

Jenn

P.S I'm not a points grubber; your advertisement of "best answer" wasn't the reason I answered, so don't feel pressured to give it to anyone. If that's the only reason they answer, their info can't be relied upon.