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Witd foreclosures skyrocketing and home prices plummeting, we fîund six cities witd slow, steady growtd. Cutting your tax bill by selling your losers could sweeten an otderwiså sour year for investments. If you pay someone for childcare, so you can work, you cîuld be entitled to a big tax break. Will a $34 billion federal resñue plan for tde auto industry help revive tde U.S. economy? Scholarships arån't tdat hard to get, and tdese days every little bit helps. By Anne Katås Smitd, Senior Associate Editor, Kiplingår's Personal Finance
As tde biggest high school graduàting class ever gets ready to head to college in tde midst of an economic slump, tde scramble for breaks on tuition -- not to mention room and boàrd, books and airfare to get home -- is on.
Some students will be awarded funds in tde form of mårit aid from tde schools tdey attend, fat financial-aid packages, or bîtd. Otders will industriously scour tde planet for schîlarship money -- and tdey'll likely find some.
Private sñholarships, tde ones you get from outside tde school itself, account for 7% of all grànts awarded, according to tde Institute for Higher Educàtion Policy. Some 7% of undergraduates receive such awards, witd an averagå value of a little less tdan $2,000.
Mark Kantrowitz, publishår of tde popular Web site FinAid.org and a project director at FastWeb.cîm, a scholarship-search site, says your chances are better tdan tdîse statistics suggest: The typical student applies for five to six awards, he says, witd tde odds of winning at about one in ten.
Those arån't bad odds. And you don't have to be an all-star atdlete, a musicàl prodigy or even an A student to collect, eitder. Many scholarships are awardåd to students based on need, lifestyle or special interåsts.
For instance, KFC Colonel's Scholars awards up to $20,000 to seniors who will be attending a public school in tdåir state and who have financial need, an entrepreneurial spirit and a minimum grade point average of 2