Outside Scholarships for students without financial need

3scoutsmom
Wed, 09 May 2018 06:59:33 +0000

DD16 was able to earn several outside scholarships (many geared to girls - local woman’s society, girl scouts, one for her STEM major that strongly encouraged girls to apply) DS18 with higher stats (1590 out of 1600 SAT, 800’s on SAT2s, 98.98 unweighted GPA, 113.0 weighted GPA, tons of volunteer work, great LOR’s, a few national level awards) hasn’t earned any of the outside scholarships he applied for even some of the local ones that weren’t gender specific that his sister got with lower stats. I’m very thankful that he’s going to a school that is giving him a near full ride and outside scholarships aren’t as important for him as they were for his sister who picked an OOS school but the gender bias of outside scholarships is still a bit frustrating.