Outside Scholarships for students without financial need

LoveTheBard
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:05:01 +0000

Outside scholarships are hard to get without financial need and/or a lot of community service. As @itsv points out,t here are a number of scholarships for women in STEM out there; a lot fewer for humanities kids, though…Many scholarships do have a need-based component.

The scholarships that I can think of that don’t have strict financial eligibility criteria are Elks, Coca Cola, Cameron Impact, and the Coolidge Scholars (too late to apply to that one, I’m afraid). There are also some niche scholarships out there and lots for STEM.

My D did much better with institutional merit aid than with private scholarships; she got full tuition scholarships at a number of top 20 schools, but not a lot of private money.