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Money Monday
By Imagine Scholarships
Sherri Ross
September 08, 2025
💵Money Monday — September 8, 2025
🏈Scholarship Showdown: Quick Wins vs. Big Swings 🏈
Smart Start of the Week — Scholarship Showdown Explained
College football lit up the field this weekend.
Ohio State crushed Grambling 70–0 with steady, relentless scoring.
Oregon blew out Oklahoma State 69–3 in a dominant performance.
And the Longhorns, Aggies, and Alabama all reminded fans that winning isn’t just about one big play — it’s about having a game plan.
Scholarships work the same way. You don’t win by chance. You win by mixing strategies:
🎯 Quick wins (small scholarships) → like A&M stacking points steadily. $200–$500 awards add up and keep momentum.
⚖️ Momentum builders (medium scholarships) → like the Longhorns balancing run and pass plays. $500–$1,500 scholarships reward steady effort.
🏆 Big swings (large scholarships) → like Alabama going deep for a long touchdown. Riskier, tougher competition, but one win can change your semester.
👉 Bottom line: Mix your plays. Small wins build confidence. Medium ones stack. Big ones can change the season.
⚔️ Scholarship Showdown: This Week’s Matchup
💵 Option 1: The Momentum Builder
This scholarship was created to support students fueled by their love to reading and dedicated to advancing their education. Share your vision for a non-fiction book that has the potential to become a timeless handbook for humanity. Applications are due September 15, 2025.
VS.
💵 Option 2: The Big Swing
$20,000
The Coca-Cola Scholars Program scholarship is an achievement-based scholarship awarded to students in their final year of high school. Students are recognized for their capacity to lead and serve, as well as their commitment to making a significant impact on their schools and communities. With the 37th class in 2025, the Foundation has provided over 7,000 Coca-Cola Scholars with more than $87 million in educational support. 150 Coca-Cola Scholars are selected each year to receive this $20,000 scholarship. The 2026 deadline (for high school students graduating in the 2025-2026 academic year) is September 30, 2025.
🏈 Just like this weekend’s games, sometimes steady points keep you ahead, and sometimes the bold play changes everything. Smart players do both.
💵 The $5 Fix
📚 Buy & Sell Used Textbooks
Why pay $100 when you can grab the same book for $25? That’s $75 back in your playbook.
Students: That’s one less shift at your part-time job.
Parents: That’s a tank of gas.
Educators: Share this with your students — small savings add up.
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📅 Make a Mini Scholarship Calendar
This week: Apply for 2 small scholarships.
Next week: Apply for 1 medium scholarship.
By month’s end: Apply for 1 big scholarship.
Stack it like football drives: small plays + steady effort = touchdowns.
💌 Final Word
Whether you’re cheering for the Longhorns, the Aggies, or Alabama, remember this: every win starts with a strategy. Don’t just swing for the end zone — stack your small wins, take your big shots, and play the whole game.
✨ Share Money Monday with a teammate who needs this pep talk:
👉Money Monday
Cheering you on,
—The Imagine Scholarships Team
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