A Scholarship Guru Shares His Best Tips

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.