Winning Scholarships

A free strategy guide for students who want to start winning real money.

What’s Inside

A 10-page strategy guide covering:

✅ The four things scholarship committees actually evaluate

✅ Where the money really is — including categories most students ignore

✅ A timeline for when to start preparing (hint: earlier than you think)

✅ How to write a personal statement that doesn't sound like everyone else's

✅ Interview prep with common questions and how to answer them well

✅ A curated list of scholarships organized by type and focus area

You can read it in twenty minutes. You can apply what's in it for years.

A laptop, a smartphone, a pen, an erasable marker, and a portfolio scorecard on a desk.

Architecture school is brutally expensive — $50,000 to $70,000 a year at private programs. The standard advice for managing that cost is generic. Most students approach scholarships like a numbers game: blast out applications, hope something sticks. It doesn't work.

I went through architecture school at RISD and GSD, paid my way through with a mix of scholarships and grinding, and have since reviewed scholarship applications from the other side of the table. This guide is the strategic playbook I wish I'd had — and the one I'd give a younger version of myself starting over.