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BooksRun Scholarship—Financial Aid 2025

BooksRun Scholarship—Financial Aid 2025
Posted By: Tom BooksRun on January 22, 2025


A lucky winner will receive a one-time award of $1,000 to cover textbook costs. This way, we would like to help gifted, diligent, and hard-working students reduce enormous costs for a chance of obtaining a higher education.

Scholarship Amount
A one-time award of $1,000 will be awarded to the author of the best short video.

Eligibility Requirements
You’re eligible to participate if

-You are a high school graduate, current undergraduate, or graduate student in the United States and ready to prove it.
-You have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75.
-You are 17 years old or older.
-You are following us on social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok).



Deadline
Applications are accepted till September 30, 2025
The winner will be announced on October 30, 2025

How to Apply
To participate, you must create and send us a short video (1–2 minutes) with the answers to a few questions.

Questions
-What do you usually do with your used textbooks?
-Where and how can you conveniently sell your used textbooks?
-How would you make selling books more appealing to students?

Video Requirements and Guidelines
-Your video must be short (1–2 minutes).
-It must be clear (not blurry or fuzzy), in focus, steady, well-framed, and with proper lighting (not dark, not dimmed).
-Your face must be clearly visible.
-The audio must be clear.

Please also include the following details separately in the email:
-Full name (first name and last name)
-Home address and phone number
-College/university and field of study
-Your social media profile links
Please do not include additional materials not asked for in the application.

Send your application to the following email: scholarship@booksrun.com.
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