Scholarships For Rising Sophomores

Paying for College
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This may come across as harsh, but I think you need to take a hard look at yourself. You seem to have an awful lot of requirements for a job and a lot of excuses for why you cannot work.

You are young with no qualifications, naturally the jobs you are going to get are low level, grunt work with crap hours or may be “too fast paced”. They are not going to be fabulous jobs you’ll want to do, but they will help you earn money, which is what you need. Working a job like this myself helped me stay nose to the grindstone to do exceptionally well in college so I never had to work a job like that again.

Get going wizman, let’s hear fewer “why I can’t” and more “what I’m going to do” from you.

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Check out the permit renewal process – mine expired while I was learning and I was able to renew it by just filling out a form and going to the DMV. Maybe it’s similarly easy in your state.

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First of all…the Target suggestion was just that…a suggestion. The same idea would apply to a number of other stores that stock up for Back to School and Back to College.

Also…seasonal businesses like ice cream shops, and froyo places hire more during these times.

You said that you applied to 15 positions…did you go INTO these places and ask to speak to the manager? If so, did you present yourself as a mature, well-groomed, responsible person?

How would you have gotten to THOSE jobs if you had been hired?

Secondly…frequently, new workers don’t have their own cars to drive. They often try to get hours that will allow a parent to drop off or pick up…or borrow a parent’s car on their days/nights off.

Lastly…if none of the above works out, then you need to get creative. Maybe let your neighbors know that you’re available to dog-walk or pet sit while they go on vacation, babysit their kids, mow their lawns, etc.

Your earlier post indicates that your parents EXPECT you to earn some money to contribute towards college. How much do they expect you to contribute? How do they expect you to get that money? How did they expect you to get to the job that would PAY that money?

It’s mid June. Unless your major dept somehow, MIRACULOUSLY, has some extra money, and YOU are the best candidate (unlikely as a rising sophomore), there’s an extremely small chance you’re going to find any scholarships for this fall, at this point.

Frankly, even if this were last Dec, there are FEW awards for continuing students. During my kids’ college years, they each only won ONE scholarship from their major dept, and that was as rising seniors.

You need to be resourceful…

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So…you have to apply to jobs that are what? Within walking distance of your house?

Or are you expecting someone else to drive you if you get a job further away?

Having younger siblings to drive are in is NOT the only reason to have a driver’s license. If you would have a car available from your parents to get YOU to a job, this would be a good reason to have a license.

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@wizman631 Go review sample DMV tests on Youtube…get yourself to the DMV asap to take the exam & renew your permit…become your parents’ chauffeurs/start driving them everywhere that isn’t their workplace…take the driving exam near the end of summer

I also let my permit expire…ended up getting my license summer before soph year as well…it’s never too late! lol

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Go get your license. Do it ASAP. While you do, talk with your family about sharing transportation. This summer we have four people with jobs, three cars, and no nearby public transportation. Both kids landed a job within driving distance and we make it work – sometimes one daughter takes me to work and arrives early for her shift, and the other daughter or my husband picks me up. Sometimes one daughter will provide transportation for the other, and they know they have to wait to be picked up. Transportation is not an excuse; you should be able to get a job wherever there is one.

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Hey, she and her family may not have the money for her to get a license. We waited for my kids because I could not afford the additional insurance - $3000 per year for two teen drivers! When they finally got licenses, the could not drive my car because they weren’t insured for it.

It might be a good thing for her to have a license, but not practical for her situation.

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At 19 you should have a license unless you are from Manhattan.

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My brother is 54 and doesn’t have a license by choice. He drinks. He knows it is not a good thing for him to drive so he doesn’t have a license. He’s had them in the past (and at one time did live in Manhattan and still had one) but knows it is best not to have the temptation to drive, or the expense to maintain the insurance. Uber is his choice.

My kids do have licenses, but I wish one (20 years old) didn’t. She’s not a good driver and I wish she didn’t have the option to drive. She does sometimes driver her friends’ cars but I wish she didn’t. She doesn’t know how to drive my car (manual transmission).

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Lack of a license will severely hinder your ability to get internships and jobs unless you can count on your parents as chauffeurs in the years ahead.

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I didn’t have a driver’s license until two weeks before I graduated from college. We lived where there was excellent public transportation. I did my internships and student teaching assignments without ever having a parent or anyone else chauffeur me.

If I had planned to stay in that city, I really could have lived without a license, maybe forever.

But I took my first job in a more rural area…and I needed a car.

This OP sounds like she doesn’t have public transportation readily available. But it also sounds like she doesn’t have a car.

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I agree that she may not be able to afford to have a license because of insurance.

However, the parents expected her to get a job and save money to contribute towards college costs, so they must have had something in mind…maybe parents drop the student off? Or maybe there are possible jobs within walking distance.

If the parents were just demanding w/o thinking of the logistics of how this student was going to actually get to a job, then the student needs to deal with that first.

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Adding a female driver, with good grades to an auto insurance policy, in what sounds like a suburban, or se rural area…will NOT cost $3000 a year.

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Well, adding two of them did! Insurance for just me was about $800, but when I asked for a quote on how much adding them would be it was about $3000 additional. The guy even said "Are you ready for this? $3000."when I asked for the quote. He couldn’t believe it either.

When I moved I changed companies, and it is a lot cheaper because now they are ‘away’ at school so i get a discount. It is a different state and I have a few different coverages (medical) so even my portion is cheaper, but it really was $3000 additional to add two female teen drivers, both with good student discounts. I might have been able to get a little bit better deal by changing companies, but the one I had was the cheapest when it was just me, so it wouldn’t have dropped enough to afford.

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Thanks, everyone. I just submitted my application for a museum clerk position at a Historical Society Museum not too far away. It was convenient and ride up my ally since I’m already a Junior Docent at a nearby museum and have been for over three years. Sorry if I haven’t responded in the past few day, been busy with personal issues.

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Good luck!!!

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So I am currently looking into volunteerism outside the Prudence Crandall Museum since it doesn’t occupy enough of my time, and I am just going to assume I won’t find a job this summer.

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Update: I’m temporarily doing some landscaping in town and I was called back for a phone interview for a Tractor Supply not even 5 minutes from home. Sorry for overreacting, but most people I know in high school or college who are working this have found weeks or even months ago so June will seem relatively late.

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Good!!! Best to you!

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@mom2collegekids
Thank you.