tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16144186782806058732024-03-07T21:01:19.961-08:00Scholarship SearchingScholarships ResourcesADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742476502347942576noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614418678280605873.post-28057677624529650472010-10-25T15:19:00.000-07:002010-10-25T15:19:38.652-07:00Accredited Online Universities for Bachelor Degrees<a href="http://distancedegreeonline.com/accredited-online-universities-bachelor-degrees/">Accredited Online Universities for Bachelor Degrees</a>ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742476502347942576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614418678280605873.post-64729755412687889712010-09-24T20:48:00.000-07:002010-09-24T20:48:44.975-07:00How to Get MBA Degree at Home<a href="http://distancedegreeonline.com/mba-degree-home/">How to Get MBA Degree at Home</a>ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742476502347942576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614418678280605873.post-72106452959172441062009-10-01T01:32:00.000-07:002009-10-01T01:32:46.786-07:00How to Win a Merit Scholarship<div style="text-align: justify;">Merit scholarships are typically awarded on the basis of academic, athletic or artistic merit, in addition to special interests. Some merit scholarships also consider financial need, but rewarding talent is the primary objective.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In most cases the scholarship sponsor has a set of criteria they use to select the winners from among the qualified applicants. (This is in contrast to scholarship lotteries which select winners randomly.) So a key to winning a <a href="http://distancedegreeonline.com/scholarship-essay-won-national-merit-scholarship/">merit scholarship</a> is to identify the sponsor's criteria and tailor your application to those criteria.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Sponsors can have a variety of goals in offering a scholarship. Some companies offer scholarships as a form of community development, to invest in the future of the communities where they are based. Others offer scholarships to help retain current employees and recruit future employees. Colleges may offer scholarships to recruit a talented and diverse student body. Colleges may also offer scholarships in specific majors to encourage students to enroll in underrepresented majors (e.g., scholarships for women and minorities in science and engineering). Membership organizations tend to offer scholarships to promote their field or the mission of the organization. Other scholarships may be established to honor the memory of someone who has passed away, to provide a legacy that perpetuates his or her values.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first step is to make sure you qualify for the scholarship. If the application requirements specify that you must have a 3.7 or higher GPA and you have a 3.6 GPA, don't bother applying. Most scholarship sponsors receive so many qualified applications that they do not have the time to consider applications that fail to satisfy the requirements. You may be a wonderful and talented person, but if your application is not qualified, the selection committee is not going to look at it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, if you barely miss the application requirements, you should try to improve until you qualify. For example, if you have a 3.6 GPA and the award requires a 3.7 GPA to apply, you could try working hard in school to improve your grades until you achieve a 3.7 GPA. This is why it is worthwhile to search for scholarships as soon as possible. Many awards also have prerequisites, such as requiring a portfolio of your work or a project report, that can take time to prepare.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As noted previously, all scholarship sponsors receive more qualified applications than they have awards available. The most competitive scholarships have a selection ratio of 1 in 400. The least competitive awards have a selection ratio of 1 in 10. According to the 2003-2004 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, 6.7% of undergraduate students receive private sector scholarships, and the average amount received is about $2,000. That means that your raw odds of winning a scholarship are 1 in 15.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But scholarship sponsors aren't going to give you money simply for breathing. They want to give money to the most talented qualified applicant. So to maximize your chances of winning the award, you need to identify the criteria they will use to select the winner. Sometimes the sponsor has published the criteria they use. Sometimes you have to critique your application from the sponsor's perspective.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can help your odds of winning by applying for less competitive scholarships, such as local awards. For example, college juniors and seniors have a better chance of winning a scholarship, since fewer upperclassmen apply for scholarships. But don't neglect the more competitive national scholarships, since these also tend to be more lucrative.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is important to remember that scholarship sponsors are evaluating applications, not applicants. You need to ensure that your application and the supporting materials contain all the relevant information the committee needs to evaluate your candidacy. The committee only knows what your application and your letters of recommendations tell it. Write an application that highlights the aspects of your background that match the sponsor's goals. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most common types of scholarships may be classified as:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* <b>Merit-based:</b> These awards are based on a student's athletic, academic, artistic or other abilities, and often factor in an applicant's community service record and extracurricular activities. The most common merit-based scholarships, awarded by either private organizations or directly by a student's intended college, recognize academic achievement or high scores on the ACT and SAT standardized tests.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* <b>Need-based</b>: These awards are based on the student and family's financial record and will require applicants to fill out a FAFSA to qualify if the scholarship is a federal award. Private need-based scholarships will also often require the results of a FAFSA, which calculates a student's financial need through a formula looking at the expected family contribution and cost of attendance at the intended college.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* <b>Student-specific:</b> These are scholarships where applicants must initially qualify by race, gender, religion, family and medical history, or many other student-specific factors. Minority scholarships are the most common awards in this category, and not all are based in the United States. For example, students in Canada may qualify for a number of aboriginal scholarships, whether they study at home or abroad.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* <b>Career-specific</b>: These are scholarships awarded by a college or university to students planning to pursue a specific field of study. Often the most generous awards are given to students pursuing careers in high-need areas such as education or nursing. Nursing students are in high demand, and many schools will give future nurses full scholarships to enter the field, especially if the student intends to work in a high-need community. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some scholarships have a "bond" requirement. Recipients may be required to work for a particular employer for a specified period of time or to work in rural or remote areas; otherwise they may be required to repay the value of the support they received from the scholarship. This is particularly the case with education and nursing scholarships for people prepared to work in rural and remote areas. The programs offered by the uniformed services of the United States (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration commissioned corps, and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps) sometimes resemble such scholarships.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many parents opted to save in the banks college funds to be used for their children when they enter college. Some invests in educational plans to surpass the heavy burden they might encounter later on. Good for those who have prepared for the college schooling of their children but how about those who have not? Can their child still go to college even if they lack finances? By all means yes.Here are some tips on how to find college scholarship:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1) Ask the academic guidance counsellor. The school where you enrol your child in High School is sure to have list of scholarship grants. You may ask for it and compare the grants that are offered according to the capability and the needs of your child. This is the surest way to find a college scholarship grant for your child thus avoiding scams.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2) Universities and Colleges offer special scholarship like academic excellence and athletics. This is one way to search for your child's college scholarship. The Universities and Colleges that offer this may require your child's effort academically (if awarded academic scholarship) and effort in athletics while maintaining a ceiling grade (if awarded athletics scholarship). There are also financial aids given to a child if he intends to join a club or organization in the University or College that he intends to join. One example of the clubs is the theatre arts clubs.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3) The internet is the widest and the biggest tool you may use in order to find a scholarship for your child. There are list of scholarship that you may find in the internet. This scholarship may be funded by people or private organization who aims to support deserving students in their college schooling. There are requirements that you may need to accomplish. That includes the application and other papers.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4) The most scholarship grant that can be trusted is the scholarship grants that are offered by the government. There are government agencies that offer college scholarship grants but limit the course a student may take up. One advantage of having a government scholarship is the job that waits after your child finishes college. That is because, most of the time, the government is the one that looks for the child's job after his schooling. Sometimes that is included in the scholarship grant contract.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These are the four major institutions where you may find a scholarship that best suits your child's ability and needs. Scholarship is a great help not just on the part of the parent but also on the child's. <br />
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In addition to making sure you are eligible before you apply for scholarships, understanding the requirements also helps guide you through the application process. Failure to follow the application requirements correctly when you apply for scholarships will almost certainly result in denial of the scholarship. This can include failure to include a specific form or even filling out the forms with the wrong ink color. Therefore, you absolutely must read all of the requirements and guidelines when you apply for scholarships. If you do not, all of the work you put into the scholarships will be wasted because your application will not even be considered.<br />
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If you have heard about a particular scholarship and you are not sure of the requirements, it is perfectly acceptable to write to the company or individual to request an application packet. Even if you do have application guidelines, be sure they are the most current versions before you apply for scholarships. Scholarship guidelines routinely change from year to year.<br />
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After you apply for scholarships, be certain to follow up with a telephone call. At the very minimum, you should call to make sure the application has been received. This is a time consuming part of the application process, but well worth the effort. The companies or individuals offering the scholarships most likely have dozens or even hundreds of applications to sort through. Making a follow up phone call is one way to make sure your name is remembered. Therefore, making sure the applications have been received is an essential step when you apply for scholarships.<br />
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If a particular post-secondary institution has already accepted you as a student, you might also apply for scholarships offered through the college or university. To learn about possible scholarship opportunities, contact the financial aid office of the institution. Once again, be certain to follow the guidelines exactly as they are described in the scholarship packet and personally check up on the scholarship application if possible.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742476502347942576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614418678280605873.post-67602017234311318232009-09-23T09:59:00.000-07:002009-09-23T16:30:51.653-07:00Common College Scholarship Mistakes<div id="body" style="text-align: justify;">Every semester college students all across the country are pursuing scholarship money to help pay for their college education. Some are very successful in getting scholarships, and others aren't. So here are the most common mistakes that are made when pursuing college scholarships, and how you can avoid them.<br />
1. One of the most common mistakes that students make when applying for college scholarships is to only apply for one or two at a time and then hope for the best. Instead, think of scholarships as a numbers game, where the more scholarships you apply for, the more you are most likely to get.<br />
2. Another mistake that you want to avoid is not following the directions that are clearly stated for applying for the scholarship. Some students seem to just send off generic packets of information to every college scholarship program they can find, but this would usually only guarantee failure.<br />
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3. A scholarship application mistake that is often made is in filling out the form itself. Scholarship reviewers like to see the entire form filled in, so if there is a blank on the form make sure that it has something in it. Even if that particular section does not apply to you personally, just note that on the space provided.<br />
4. Another deadly mistake that will almost guarantee failure in applying for college scholarships is sending out a sloppy application that is hard to read. If you put yourself in the place of the scholarship reviewers who will most likely be looking over several scholarship applications at the same time, you can understand why they will most likely not spend much time with applications that are very hard to read and understand. The best way to avoid this is to type in the information on your application, but if that is not possible be sure to write it in clearly and legibly instead.<br />
5. Closely related to neatness is spelling and grammar. Even if the information in your scholarship packet appears neat and easy to read, it can still reflect badly on you if it is filled with spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. So before you send off any scholarship information packet, be sure to have someone with good writing skills review the entire packet beforehand looking for all spelling and grammar mistakes that they can find. Also, it's a good idea to ask them for any suggestions on how to improve your essay at the same time.<br />
6. Of all the mistakes that are commonly made each semester when students apply for scholarship money, perhaps the worst is simply not getting the application and packet in on time. This usually indicates that there is a failure to organize your schedule enough to get the job done. So don't let all your hard work go down the drain because you miss the scholarship deadline.<br />
7. A common mistake that is growing in popularity these days is falling for college scholarship scams that are designed to separate students from their hard earned money. So if any scholarship program promises to do all the work for you, or asks for money or credit card information in advance in order to qualify for the scholarship, it's best to avoid this scholarship program altogether if you don't want to get taken.<br />
These are some of the most common mistakes that are made when students apply for college scholarships, and hopefully by being aware of them you can avoid falling victim to the same mistakes yourself.<br />
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