Outside Scholarships for students without financial need

mathmomvt
Thu, 10 May 2018 23:16:55 +0000

My DS19 has placed highly in a couple of contests this year netting him $300 in cash, a graphing calculator, a book, and a scholarship to a summer math program. But 300 ain’t gonna cover textbooks for a semester, and there’s not much else available to him in terms of scholarship dollars locally (this year or next). If he’s valedictorian, he’ll get offered full tuition at our state flagship, and he’s in contention for that, but obviously not something he can count on. (They used to offer full tuition to all in-state NMFs, but now offer nothing explicitly for that, and the maximum merit one can get in-state is $7K.) Our awards ceremonies include lots of awards without money attached (honor roll, recognition by a subject teacher, etc.) so getting invited doesn’t tell one much.