We all know that times are rough. Every dollar counts. This is why we are tinkering with a concept known as “microscholarships.” We can’t say that we created the term, but we hope that other companies will follow in our path and make more microscholarships available to students.

We’ve created a contest that is giving out $100 microscholarships to ten (10) entrants.

Plus, we’re making it VERY EASY to enter. It’ll probably only take you 30 seconds to submit an entry to win a $100 microscholarship.


In a nutshell, here’s HOW IT WORKS:


1. Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/realcollegetour).

2. Send us a Tweet telling us why you deserve one of our microscholarships or why you want one of them. It’ll look something like this:


3. The contest ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on January 31, 2010. This means your Tweet must be in by then.

4. You can Tweet as many submissions as you want.

5. Entries will be judged on the “originality” and the “entertainment value” of the Tweet. Make them wise, clever, and/or fun!

6. All  ten (10) Winners will be announced on February 14th, 2010. We’ll contact the winners via Twitter, so don’t be a stranger!

Don’t forget to tell all your friends and family about the scholarship!

For more info, go to the Twitter MicroScholarship Page.

If you have 1000+ friends on your facebook and/or a ton of followers on twitter, we’ll pay you to promote us to your friends. You’ll get $20 for literally 3 minutes of work.

How it works:

1. You become a facebook fan of our website.
2. Suggest the fan page to your friends.
3. We’ll give you a unique link & a discount code on your facebook feed & your twitter.
4. Provide proof of how many friends you have and proof that you promoted RealCollegeTour.com (e.g. email a jpeg or pdf of a screenshot).
5. You’ll get paid through paypal upon completion.

This can be you after promoting RealCollegeTour.com

Why are we doing this?

We’re always looking at unique ways to market our website. Social networks are definitely a great approach.

Email us at questions@realcollegetour.com with questions or if you want to get started!

Social networks have been consuming high school and college students for a few new years now. Well, now colleges are starting official facebook pages and school-sanctioned twitter accounts. WBBM 780 Chicago reports:

IU ranks sixth for its number of university-affiliated Twitter accounts, fourth for number of Twitter followers and eighth for total “tweets” per day.

IU had 16 Twitter accounts, compared with seven at Purdue University.

We think that the tweets from Indiana University look something like this:

@iustudents sorry every1!!! we’re raising tuition by 7.3% :’( #screwingcollegestudents

@professors just got paid! Faculty Foam Party at the Four Seasons Friday

@purduebmakers IU professors party harder than urs! http://i10.tinypic.com/33yrhnp.jpg

While we’re on the subject of Twitter, you should follow us on Twitter!