Help your student find and win scholarships... even without perfect grades, financial need, or a standout résumé.

Built from the real-life experience of founder and $164,284 scholarship winner Ryan Kelly, Scholarship Navigator teaches families how to find and apply for legitimate, less-competitive opportunities their student has a better chance of winning.

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personally won by founder Ryan

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Ryan Kelly speaking to a classroom of families about scholarships

Scholarships aren’t just for the obvious standouts.

Ryan Kelly won $164,284 in scholarships, and now teaches families how to find legitimate, lesser-known opportunities beyond the obvious awards everyone else is chasing.

“We make too much for aid.”
“My student isn’t a straight-A star.”
“We’re starting late.”
“I don’t want this to take over our lives.”

Those things don’t automatically disqualify your student.

Scholarships can be based on far more than grades, athletics, or financial need. The key is knowing where to look, which opportunities are worth the effort, and how to approach them strategically.

Is this for a student like mine?

Probably. Scholarship opportunities exist for far more kinds of students and families than most people realize.

High school students, including seniors (you’re not too late!)
Current college students (freshmen through seniors)
Middle school students (Grades 5–8)
Parents who want to help their student navigate the scholarship process
Average students (you don’t need straight A’s)
Students without an impressive résumé of awards or activities
Students who aren’t athletes
Students who are athletes
Students from middle- and upper-income families (even if you don’t qualify for need-based aid)
Students from low-income families
Homeschooled students
Students who have never applied for a scholarship before
Students who have applied before, but haven’t won yet
Families who don’t qualify for much, or any, need-based aid
Community college students
Trade & certificate program students
Students pursuing 2-year or 4-year degrees
Graduate students
Transfer students
Adult & returning students
Gap-year students
Military families
U.S. citizens living abroad
Permanent U.S. residents
Public & Private school students
Students who don’t know what they want to major in yet
Students who have already won scholarships, and want to win more

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Free 30-minute class

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In this 30-minute workshop, Ryan will show you:

Where worthwhile scholarships can actually be found
How to tell which opportunities are really worth your student’s time
How to apply more efficiently instead of starting from scratch every time

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Success stories

Real students. Real scholarship wins.

Jacob

High School Senior

$8,000 winner

“Ryan’s guidance with essay writing helped me create the essays I needed to win.”

Isaac

College Freshman

$10,000 winner

Isaac hadn’t applied for a scholarship until freshman year of college. With Ryan’s guidance, he became a $10,000 winner.

Emily

10th Grade

$5,000 winner

“Because of Ryan, I found out about this scholarship and could participate. Ryan helped me brainstorm essays that were powerful and one-of-a-kind.”

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Results families have shared using Ryan’s methods.

Email from Becky Cabrera about her daughter’s first scholarship win

Email from Charlene about her son receiving the Evans Scholarship

Message from Cheryl Dukes about her student covering a first year of college

Email from Deanna Anderson about her daughter’s first $2,500 scholarship

Email from Jeanne Kirk about additional scholarship awards

Ryan Kelly in 11th grade, sitting with a laptop while working on scholarship applications

Ryan’s story

I figured out how to actually win scholarships because my own family needed another way to pay for college.

My family was in that awkward spot where we “earned too much” to qualify for much financial aid, but didn’t make enough to pay for college without loans.

So during 11th grade, my mom and I started searching for scholarships from scratch.

After a lot of trial and error, we finally figured it out: where to actually look, which scholarships were really worth pursuing, and what made my applications win.

My first scholarship win was $100 (yes, really!). But that small taste of success motivated me to keep going, and after I continued applying all the way through my senior year of college, those wins eventually added up to $164,284, allowing me to graduate debt-free.

After family and friends kept asking me for scholarship advice, and started winning themselves, I founded Scholarship Navigator to help families all across the country do the same.

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The Get Paid to Go to College Program

Turn the scholarship process into a clear, repeatable plan your family can actually follow and succeed with.

The Get Paid to Go to College Program brings Ryan’s proven scholarship-search methods and winning application strategies together into one step-by-step system, so your family knows exactly what to do to see real results.

Find legitimate, lesser-known scholarships that fit your student
Know which opportunities are actually worth the effort
Build stronger applications and reuse your best work
Follow a manageable scholarship routine instead of searching endlessly

$32K average reported first-year wins using Ryan’s strategies*

Whole-family access · Future program updates included · Designed for 7th–12th graders and college students

*Based on reported student outcomes. Individual results vary.

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Get Paid to Go to College program materials, including guides, a laptop, and a tablet

Ready to find scholarships your student has a stronger chance of winning?

Start with the free 30-minute class and learn the process Ryan teaches families to use to find legitimate opportunities and apply for scholarships without the stress.

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