Scholarships - searching for them

[DCbride]

Check with the school. DD was able to get half tuition for 4 years by committing to do community service ( stuff she loved to do in high school anyway)

 

[crisi]

I hope you don't have political or corporate ambitions.

Yep, if the background check turns this up, you will discover yourself having made a career ending move.

We fired a VP at a company for a similarly stupid move when he was 19. Twenty years later, he makes money stringing consulting gigs together until it catches up with him.

 

[3boymthr]

http://www.careerinfonet.org/scholarshipsearch/ScholarshipCategory.asp?searchtype=category&nodeid=22

 

[ashley23]

You had to sign a purity pledge which from what I understand of them refers to agreeing that you will only associate with people who are white, blond hair blue eyes.

I never said those things. I said I had to sign a purity pledge. My bottled water claims it is pure too, I guess it is racist as well. It was a pledge to have a pure heart and soul and not associate with those unlike me. My heart is pure, and I'm pretty sure you are the type of person I was pledging to stay away from. Good words to live by.

 

[eeyorethegreat]

I never said those things. I said I had to sign a purity pledge. My bottled water claims it is pure too, I guess it is racist as well. It was a pledge to have a pure heart and soul and not associate with those unlike me. My heart is pure, and I'm pretty sure you are the type of person I was pledging to stay away from. Good words to live by.

Yes, your heart is so pure you accepted $4000 from a white power group gotcha. I won't discuss with you further as it takes away from the helpful info the OP was hoping to get.

adventure_woman The other links and advice in this thread are good leads for your nephew to start on. Also ask other parents/guardians of recent graduates from where your nephew goes to school, where they found the scholarships that their graduates applied for. Calling the high school directly for a list of local scholarships is a good start then expand with the links others suggested. Best of luck to your nephew!

 

[ashley23]

Yes, your heart is so pure you accepted $4000 from a white power group gotcha. I won't discuss with you further as it takes away from the helpful info the OP was hoping to get.

You can keep pretending you are so superior to me. Ironic isn't is. Try not to be so filled with hate and judgement.

 

[Kriii]

Look at your nephew's stats and then target schools where he would be a top candidate for merit money. The largest scholarships tend to come from the schools themselves and would last longer than the freshman year. College Confidential has a thread listing full rides and other tips for finding scholarship money. Also, does your nephew have any special skills that would bring in money?

 

[Alesia]

I never said those things. I said I had to sign a purity pledge. My bottled water claims it is pure too, I guess it is racist as well. It was a pledge to have a pure heart and soul and not associate with those unlike me. My heart is pure, and I'm pretty sure you are the type of person I was pledging to stay away from. Good words to live by.

No, sweetie, the people you pledged to stay away from are non-white people - that was a racial purity pledge.

 

[Green Tea]

You can keep pretending you are so superior to me. Ironic isn't is. Try not to be so filled with hate and judgement.

Did your scholarship happen to come from a group with, um, KKK in the name? Or perhaps the Aryan Nation?

I think you mentioned in one of the earlier posts that your mom tried to get you NOT to take this money? .........Mom's are almost ALWAYS right. And in this case, spot on.

 

[Freesia123]

The thing is that you read the details and signed because there was nothing overtly iffy in the wording. Unfortunately, many others on this board read between the lines and perceive it differently. Even if word by word it wasn't "", others perceive it to be, and that's what could bite you on the bum later.

I am very sorry you didn't realise this st the time, because I honestly don't think you got it. Just be aware that its there and that if you decide to be a public figure it will come out. Most people would roll their eyes and say, yeah right, she's didn't understand she was affiliating herself with a "" group as she cashed those checks.


I don't think you believe in anything "" for what it's worth.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

You can keep pretending you are so superior to me. Ironic isn't is. Try not to be so filled with hate and judgement.

Basically you signed a pledge saying you weren't going to associate with mixed race people like me - because we aren't pure - or with the "lesser" races and now you're trying to spin this to take the moral high ground?

Seriously???

 

[mirage0306]

I never said those things. I said I had to sign a purity pledge. My bottled water claims it is pure too, I guess it is racist as well. It was a pledge to have a pure heart and soul and not associate with those unlike me. My heart is pure, and I'm pretty sure you are the type of person I was pledging to stay away from. Good words to live by.

It is so sad to me that you are defending your association with a white supremacy group like this. You *know* what they mean by "pure" and what the language on your water bottle is referring to are not the same thing at all.



Just kills me that these groups are still around, anyway.

 

[ashley23]

Basically you signed a pledge saying you weren't going to associate with mixed race people like me - because we aren't pure - or with the "lesser" races and now you're trying to spin this to take the moral high ground?

Seriously???

The pledge was quite simple. It was exactly as I typed it. Nowhere does it mention race. I got paid $4000 for having blond hair and blue eyes. Nothing more, nothing less. I signed a pledge to be pure of heart and avoid those who aren't. Seems straight forward to me. No mention of race.

You seem to have taken it to a new level and are making me to be a racist person. I will inform my black fiance that the wedding is off, some crazy people from a Disney message board have found my true intentions.

 

[Adipoo]

The pledge was quite simple. It was exactly as I typed it. Nowhere does it mention race. I got paid $4000 for having blond hair and blue eyes. Nothing more, nothing less. I signed a pledge to be pure of heart and avoid those who aren't. Seems straight forward to me. No mention of race.

You seem to have taken it to a new level and are making me to be a racist person. I will inform my black fiance that the wedding is off, some crazy people from a Disney message board have found my true intentions.

Well played. Fiance has more impact than "a lot of my friends."

I sincerely hope you're trolling and are not really this naïve.

 

[Green Tea]

The pledge was quite simple. It was exactly as I typed it. Nowhere does it mention race. I got paid $4000 for having blond hair and blue eyes. Nothing more, nothing less. I signed a pledge to be pure of heart and avoid those who aren't. Seems straight forward to me. No mention of race.

You seem to have taken it to a new level and are making me to be a racist person. I will inform my black fiance that the wedding is off, some crazy people from a Disney message board have found my true intentions.

David Duke called. He wants his $4000 back.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

David Duke called. He wants his $4000 back.

 

[Liberty Belle]

The pledge was quite simple. It was exactly as I typed it. Nowhere does it mention race. I got paid $4000 for having blond hair and blue eyes. Nothing more, nothing less. I signed a pledge to be pure of heart and avoid those who aren't. Seems straight forward to me. No mention of race.

You seem to have taken it to a new level and are making me to be a racist person. I will inform my black fiance that the wedding is off, some crazy people from a Disney message board have found my true intentions.

I can't believe you're being so nonchalant about this. First, I would never accept money from such a horrible organization, I don't care how desperately I needed it. If I somehow received monies and found out later just what kind of organization it was, I would be horrified! Disgusted!

And the purity thing - you said you knew this was a white supremacy group. How could you not know what they meant?!

I just can't imagine anyone, except members of those awful groups or someone else who was severely racist, being ok with this.

 

[MineMail]

Meanwhile, back to the scholarship search topic...there's an app for that! Sounds like a good use of a dollar.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/06/30/2997139/app-helps-find-college-scholarships.html

This is the app from the article:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scholly-scholarship-search/id640381740?mt=8
There are others that come up if you search the Apple App Store.

If your nephew has a school in mind, check out their financial aid web pages. Many offer specialty scholarships the have specific requirements. Finding opportunities to fill those requirements now will help. Ex: one school offers a robotics scholarship, but the applicant has to have done robotics competitions during high school. Lots of summer camps, clubs and even corporations field teams for those events.

If he is active in a sport, check out the national organization's website. Many offer scholarships that have specific criteria that can be met with a little work, like testing, entering tourneys or being a full member. Most smaller sports get few applications. If there's no fee to apply, take a chance.

Its important to get organized now. Choose one legal name and use it all the time, not nicknames, don't add a "Jr." to one document and not another. I've seen students send in supporting documents that take much longer to match up because of inconsistencies. Definitely set up one unique email and use it for EVERY FORM the student fills out. Don't reuse it for a sibling.

When you see a scholarship offer, make a note. I use my cell phone's list function. Make a favorites list to bookmark all scholarships on your tablet or computer. Put a reminder in your calendar to get the app when it comes out. You have to be ready and on time to qualify.

If you avoid delays, your paperwork gets processed faster and with fewer errors.

 

[IUTBAM]

Our experience with scholarships for DS for college. DS graduated 3rd in his class with a 4.07 GPA. He wasn't a jock, but was in many academic and service groups. He applied for ~30 scholarships spending hundreds of hours on applications. in the end he got a one time $1,000 from our local Walmart and $1,500 from our local Knights of Columbus (a Catholic fraternal club). I was pretty disappointed that 12 years of incredible hard work resulted in $2,500 . Thankfully he was able to live at home and commute to a Big Ten university (Purdue), graduate in 4 years with a major in Physics and a minor in Astronomy with no debt (I work there and get a 50% tuition discount). He applied to grad school in physics and received three full ride offers (tuition waiver and a teaching stipend). No need to seek other scholarships, yay !!

Similar story here in terms of not finding undergrad scholarship money for highly qualified students...I always shake my head when I hear people say there are SO many scholarships out there...there aren't. My DD was a VALEDICTORIAN (of a class of 650), and a National Merit commended scholar. She got a National Merit special scholarship from my husband's employer ($8,000 total...$2,000 a year for 4 years), a one-time scholarship of $1,500 from the school she decided to attend, and she gets $2,000 a year for being in the honors program of her chosen college. She has also received an additional $1,500 in scholarship money from a private donor who offers special scholarships to those in the honors program. That's it. No full rides. Not even close. She is living at home and commuting. She will graduate debt free because we are paying for what her scholarships don't cover, but it is a bit disheartening that 12 years of hard work and a perfect GPA (plus extracurriculars) amounted to so little in terms of scholarship money. State schools in CO do not offer much in the way of merit scholarships...and she did not qualify for any need-based aid because of our income. She did get some nice scholarships from some private colleges, but again, no full rides. The scholarships they offered merely brought the cost of attendance down to the state school cost level.

 

[Cmbar]

Similar story here in terms of not finding undergrad scholarship money for highly qualified students...I always shake my head when I hear people say there are SO many scholarships out there...there aren't. My DD was a VALEDICTORIAN (of a class of 650), and a National Merit commended scholar. She got a National Merit special scholarship from my husband's employer ($8,000 total...$2,000 a year for 4 years), a one-time scholarship of $1,500 from the school she decided to attend, and she gets $2,000 a year for being in the honors program of her chosen college. She has also received an additional $1,500 in scholarship money from a private donor who offers special scholarships to those in the honors program. That's it. No full rides. Not even close. She is living at home and commuting. She will graduate debt free because we are paying for what her scholarships don't cover, but it is a bit disheartening that 12 years of hard work and a perfect GPA (plus extracurriculars) amounted to so little in terms of scholarship money. State schools in CO do not offer much in the way of merit scholarships...and she did not qualify for any need-based aid because of our income. She did get some nice scholarships from some private colleges, but again, no full rides. The scholarships they offered merely brought the cost of attendance down to the state school cost level.

Well this is really disheartening. My son will be a junior in the fall and based on his recent PSAT (and SATs he took at an early age) he will qualify for the National Merit Scholarship program. We are working on getting even higher scores on the SAT so he will be in the 2100 -2400 range hopefully. Now it feels like it won't be worth it. He has a high GPA and will have at least 9 AP classes when he graduates. This is what everyone is telling us to do so he can hopefully get scholarship money. He has leadership roles in school and at church and now it feels like it is for nothing.

I get so many conflicting accounts about this subject. So many people tell me there is money everywhere and then I see posts like this. Very disheartening because he will not be able to go to school without loans (he HATES the state of Maryland and refuses to go to school here so we are looking at out of state tuition).