Outside Scholarships for students without financial need

itsv
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 02:42:44 +0000

I second the recommendation to contact Courtney Thurston.

My DD is a STEM major and has received over $62K in private scholarships ranging from $500 to $5K over the past 4 years of college. How did we find them?? The hard way by just doing a lot of searches on STEM websites like “Engineering Girl” etc and any other website we came across. Some scholarships we found out about through industry websites like SAE, SME, ASME. Others we found out about on her major’s newsletter which goes out to students which mentioned scholarships by Akins, Palatinir, Shell, Ford etc. Her college also had special scholarships given out by other organizations or companies which her college administered which my DD also received. We also discovered that some companies used scholarships as recruitment tools so she applied to those and received them (Honda, Exxon etc.). I also trolled the engineering departments at other colleges like MIT and found scholarships listed there. Local scholarships were best Every time I thought I found all available scholarships, new ones would pop up so don’t stop researching.

Scholarships were not limited to just money for school but also for attending STEM conferences so don’t forget to look for those too. My DD had her way to the Society of Women Engineers paid for by BlackRock. Amazon paid for her to attend the Tapia CS Conference.

My DD and I developed a system which made applying for the scholarships much easier and less time-consuming. She used Google Docs to create folders and had an essay bank where she could cut and paste her essays together to answer any new prompts. She had two types of resumes, a one page typical one used for job hunting and then a longer 3 page resume that she used for scholarships if they allowed a longer resume to be submitted. My DD kept it constantly updated.