Supplemental scholarships?

gandalf78
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:16:57 +0000

@landturtle makes a good point about Purdue Alumni chapters that award scholarships to local students who will be attending Purdue. A caveat – our local chapter awarded a $1000 scholarship at the end of the summer to a student from a local high school who was matriculating at Purdue; unfortunately, the local chapter did not have the names of all the high school students from our area who would be attending Purdue, so the award was made considering only about 50% of the eligible student population. When asked about this omission, the local chapter president said that he wasn’t provided all the names by Purdue.

I don’t know the obligation of Purdue to provide those student names to the local chapter; but I would be proactive and inquire with the local chapter early, and be sure that it has your child’s name if he/she will be matriculating at Purdue.