The I’m First Scholarship Application Is Now Live

by Matt Rubinoff

If you’re a high school senior about to be a first-generation college student at an I’m First college partner (full list here), you are eligible for our $2,000 per year renewable scholarship. That means you apply to the scholarship once, and, if selected, you will...

My Relationship with My Wallet

by Jenny Luong, Amherst College, '14

Okay, so I know I posted that my New Year’s resolution was to stop ordering out so much. It failed. I…I couldn’t do it. I saw those wings in all their saucy sweet onion barbeque glory and…and they just spoke out to me, whispering, “You know you want...

Gettin' Money

by Seanna Leath

I’ve told this story so often that it has catchphrases and clichés…but it’s still a good story & it never stopped being true. My undergrad application process was haphazard to say the least. It was as disastrous as someone trying to run through an obstacle course...

Money? Money. Money!

by Tyler Lattimore, Emory University , '15

These days, college seems to cost three arms and a couple legs! Some things you can find a way to cut back on or avoid paying for and some things seem to be immovable mountains blocking your path to college! Last year around this time I found myself staring at that...

“Money Money Money Money”

by Alexis King, University of Florida, '17

One thing we all worried about Senior Year was how in the heck we were going to afford these colleges we wanted. Those of us with a lot of ambition started researching tuition costs and applying for scholarships. Some of us even got enough to cover tuition, books,...