Social media scholarships give students new ways to secure funding for college
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- High school students are now creating content on social media to earn college scholarships.
17-year-old Omalina Wolfe says she enjoyed creating an Instagram video for a scholarship titled, "Holiday Fun."
"It just stood out to me and I thought, I can do something fun with this, especially because I'm from California," Wolfe said. "My mind went to winter, California doesn't have winter, but fun if I did a little pun on it."
As part of the requirement for the scholarship, she needed to use hashtags and tag her top choice university.
Jennifer Finetti of Scholarshipowl has worked as an admissions advisor and says while there are plenty of scholarships that need to be written in an essay format for high achieving students, not all scholarships are designed in that way. ... Read More