The United States Achievement Academy

CRACollege
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:03:18 +0000

This is one of the groups that blanket high schools with unsolicited emails/mail asking for nominations (criteria is pretty low). Well meaning teachers do nominate students. Students get notification and there is a membership fee or yearbooks for sale, scholarships, and even some have started offering t-shirts, honor cords, stoles, stuff mascots. It is so broad that it is for 6th to 12th grade. Sometimes there is an application fee for the scholarships.

Yes, they will give out scholarships–but your odds would be better if you got all the students in your school to throw in $50 and then you drew a name out of the hat to see who got the pot.

Some of these organizations have been linked to identity theft; be cautious giving out your birthdate, address and SSN.