Parents: How did you find out about scholarships?

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<p>Greetings CC Parents,</p>

<p>I will be a rising senior this August and I’ve started to consider the different colleges that I might want to attend. These schools range in price range and I’m not sure if I can afford many of them. I attend a well-known boarding school, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, which offers a tuition grant for students who are accepted to any of the public UNC schools. UNC-Chapel Hill is a school that I’m considering very strongly because of the tuition grant and its strong chemistry department. However, I don’t want to disregard the other schools because of tuition. </p>

<p>The other schools I am considering are Duke, NC State, Stanford, Drexel, Brown, Berkeley, and University of Chicago. </p>

<p>I am interested in pursuing a chemistry or chemical engineering major and do attend graduate school for medicine and biochemical research. </p>

<p>My stats are not stellar, but I believe they are competitive enough to attend the schools aforementioned, since I was selected to attend NCSSM. Since attending, I have improved upon weaknesses, such as improving my mathematical abilities to qualify for AIME this year. I have also done research in biochemistry and placed third and first in two different competitions. If there is anything else you would like to know about me, feel free to ask.</p>

<p>My question is: How did you all find various scholarships for your sons/daughters? When did you start searching and what approaches did you take when applying for them? How do scholarships that are not awarded by a specific college work? For instance, if one has a scholarship from an outside source, but also gets offered a scholarship from a college, does the college reduce the amount offered? I’ve heard about websites, such as Fastweb.com and ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■, but don’t know how reliable they are. Any assistance would be wonderful.</p>

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<p>Take a look at the sticky threads at the top of the ‘Financial Aid and Scholarships’ forum…</p>

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<p>Collegeboard.com has a list - does not show all of them, but it is a good start. </p>

<p>Also, your High School Guidance Counselor should have a list of scholarships.</p>

<p>Also, think about you and your family. </p>

<p>What is your heritage (there are many scholarships for “x” heritage. Replace “x” with Italian, Hispanic, German, Chinese, etc.). </p>

<p>What does your father and/or your mother do? (there are scholarships for children of “Y”. Replace “y” with Firefighter, policeman, Engineer, Union worker, Ironworker, Nurse, etc. etc.</p>

<p>What clubs do you, or your parents belong to? (there are scholarships for children associated with “Z”. Replace “z” with Elks, Lions, Rotary, Masons, etc. etc.)</p>

<p>Do you play sports? (there are babe ruth, pop-warner, etc. scholarships).</p>

<p>Do you play in instrument?</p>

<p>What are you interested in, or involved with?</p>

<p>Collegeboard.com will ask you these type questions, and when you have answered yes or no, they will show you a list.</p>

<p>Also, there are some common ones (that are hard to get, but there is some good money in them: BestBuy, CocaCola, etc. etc.).</p>

<p>If you are internet saavy, then start doing “google searches” and put in scholarship + <something that=“” is=“” related=“” to=“” you=“”></something></p>

<p>Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>Most scholarhsips come form the colleges themselves.</p>

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<p>There are lots of kids trying for the general scholarships. You can submit a pile of apps and end up with nothing. Most end up relying on need-based or merit scholarships from the individual schools.</p>

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<p>The Elks have a scholarship for kids with families NOT affiliated with the Elks. D has one. I got online and checked the websites of the various fraternal organizations. We found the rest through the GC, who issued a list every month of the current deadlines. I also asked at our credit union, which had one, and D applied, and got it. For anyone wanting to go overseas their junior year, and do not qualify for FA or have it paid through their college, the Rotary has $25K scholarships under their Ambassador’s Program. You must apply your freshman year, and go your junior year. Contact your local Rotary Chapter for deadline info. Each chapter handles this differently. A member told us about it, because many chapters have hardly anyone applying, and have the $.</p>