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...Winning scholarships is a game,” Kaplan, who is also a Crimson editor, says. “A game with high stakes and huge rewards, but to succeed, you must be ready...
...Kaplan, who attended public school in his hometown of Eugene, Oregon, ays he had always assumed he would get a tennis scholarship. But after a stress fracture in his back ended his hopes for athletic recruiting, Kaplan was forced to find another way to pay for college...
...Kaplan threw himself into researching and applying for various scholarships, ultimately earning enough money to pay for his college education, which he completed in three academic years...
After writing articles on his success for both The New York Times and U.S. News and World Report in 1998, Kaplan says he received hundreds of e-mailed scholarship questions from readers. He says that at that point he realized how much of a need there was for this sort of information, and his saved copies of this e-mail advice became the base for his first book, “How to Go to College Almost for Free,” which he completed the summer after his graduation from Harvard...
Even though none of the two dozen scholarships he won were Harvard-based, Kaplan, an Economics concentrator, got the name for his scholarship advising company from a biology course he took at Harvard...