SMART Scholarship Strategies

Learn the framework I used to help my daughter earn over $200,000 in scholarships and graduate debt free!

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If you want to learn how to not only locate scholarships, but also create stunning scholarship application packets that will make the judges want to give you the money, then SMART Scholarship Strategies™ is the course for you. You will leave with the strategies and tools that you can implement immediately and begin the journey to a debt free education!


How was SMART Scholarship Strategies born?

Over my 20+ years in higher education, five years as an executive, I continuously encountered families struggling with understanding how to fund their child’s college dreams without going into massive loan debt.

That was troubling for me. I wanted to create a program that would help these families learn how to earn scholarships and graduate debt-free just as my own daughter did; earning over $200K in college scholarships and graduating debt free!

Armed with this burning desire, my 20+ years’ experience in higher education, my insider knowledge, along with the strategies I used with my own two children – both earning full tuition scholarships and my daughter graduating debt-free – the SMART Scholarship Strategies course was born.

I created a reserch-based framework, the SMART Method, that students and parents could easily understand and effortlessly replicate and learn how to secure scholarships and reduce college loans. Empowered with the right information and tools, students could easily make their dream of a debt-free college a reality.

I have assisted hundreds of students and partnered with dozens of organizations, throughout the country, committed to improving the college access, success, and college completion rates for students, especially first-generation college students.

We have helped these students earn millions of dollars in college scholarships using the SMART Scholarship Strategies SMART Method.

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What exactly is the SMART Method?

The SMART Method is a unique, research-based framework that will help families learn how to increase college scholarships and decrease or eliminate college loans beginning as early as middle school!

The SMART Method is:

  • Simple: We provide a detailed road map and framework that is easy to follow for locating the right scholarships, not a long list of the wrong scholarships.
  • Manageable: We teach students scholarship strategies and priorities that will turn as little as 6-hours per week into free money for college!
  • Achievable: We teach students the keys to creating stunning application packages that get read and get results!
  • Realistic: We help students successfully locate scholarships based on their unique story that they have the qualifications to win and do not set unrealistic expectations.
  • Timely: Whether students are in middle school, a high school freshman, a recently graduated senior, or a current college student, this course is built to be adjusted to match their individual need


What does SMART Scholarship Strategies Course include?

SMART is a simple 5-step program that will help you learn how to maximize free money and minimize loans.

You get:

  • 6-hours of live coaching and unlimited email support
  • Over 20+ scholarship strategies that get results.
  • Unique worksheets, cheat sheets & templates that make everything easy!
  • Individual strategies & timeline based on how quickly a student needs scholarship.
  • Exclusive Private Members Only group with Dr. C. Nicole and other college coaches to provide guidance, tips, answer questions, and provide scholarship information.

The SMART Method gets results! We will teach you how to maximize free money and minimize college loans.

Your Instructor


Dr. C. Nicole Henderson
Dr. C. Nicole Henderson

Dr. C. Nicole Henderson is an highly experienced college dean, college completion consultant, professional speaker, professor, and former college admissions reader. She has 20+ years in higher education and helps families develop their college completion strategy from college application to college graduation.

Dr. Henderson understands college success from beginning to end and spent years developing individualized coaching plans for students from around the country. She and has experience coaching students with admissions to highly selective Ivy League universities, as well as, assisting students with earning over a million dollars in college scholarships.

Dr. Henderson created the framework that helped her daughter earn over $200K in college scholarships and graduate debt free! She turned that framework into her SMART Method for families.


Course Curriculum


  Welcome to SMART Scholarship Strategies
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  SMART Strategy #1 - The MONEY Mindset
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  SMART Strategy #2 - Mastering College Money
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
After enrolling, you have one year to access this course- cross any and all devices you own - and learn the framework that will get you closer to a debt-free college.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
I would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us within the first 2-weeks and I will give you a full refund.