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A Scholarship Guru Shares His Best Tips

Money

June - July 2019

Christopher Gray won more than $1 million to help him pay for school. Now he’s spreading the love.

- Kaitlin Mulhere

AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, Christopher Gray applied for hundreds of scholarships. As a homeless high school student, he did all that work— typing essays and searching for leads online—on his cell phone and the shared computers at a public library in his Alabama hometown.

This story is from the June - July 2019 edition of Money.

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