Marilynn Song Harri – Scholarship Winner/Speaker (also a Wilson girl)
As the firstborn “guinea pig” of the family, Marilynn Song jump-started the learning curve of scholarship fundraising for the Wilson clan. She was homeschooled until she attended Woodinville High School, and upon graduation attended Seattle Pacific University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and a Music Minor. Though we didn’t know about all the opportunities available back then, and it took some trial and error, this “guinea pig” was still able to raise over $90,000 in scholarships and grants. The unique GoToCollegeFree approach of taking a strong and deliberate business approach to “self-development”, “self-marketing”, “self-selling” and “self-financing” toward scholarships and grants, initially emerged from Marilynn Song’s experience, helping to form the methods and techniques GTCF teaches today. Her efforts resulted in a “nearly free” college attendance at the most expensive private university in Washington State. At GoToCollegeFree Workshops, Marilynn Song often speaks through the internet to attending students, sharing her experiences, what worked, what didn’t, how to keep the right attitude, etc. while fishing for scholarship funds. As a GTCF featured speaker, she enjoys the opportunity to engage prospective students with her testimony, challenging them that, they too, can raise needed funds to achieve a college education. She reviews her own need for commitment to walk forward with persistence, patience, vision, study skill and confidence as she walked out her own collegiate journey and scholarship search.
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