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“My GPA is not that hot … and my SAT scores were lousy because I had a temperature/didn’t get enough sleep/forgot to prepare/had an argument with my boyfriend, so I wonder if I can even get into college. But heck, college costs thousands and thousands of dollars and my family cannot afford that. Why even apply? My parents don’t have the money and scholarships only go to the straight A students anyway …”

Have you had that conversation with yourself? If so, you aren’t the first and certainly won’t be the last to do so. But be advised: Such thinking is a big mistake.

Without question, college costs a lot, and most families struggle to find enough money to pay for it. But those scholarships you keep hearing about are not just for the eggheads or overachievers who excelled in everything from U.S. history to trigonometry.

So who exactly gets scholarships besides those with high numbers? Let’s take a look.