<p>Can someone please tell me what constitutes a good scholarchip for Graduate School?</p>
<p>I’ve been offered a scholarship that covers almost all of my Tuition from USC. Is it a good scholarship?<br>
I’ve heard a few people getting scholarship that cover tuition as well as living expenses. How Often does that happen?</p>
<p>You have done extremely well if you have a scholarship that covers your tuition for graduate school. Very few if any schools will give you money for living expenses because the cost varies according to what a person wants/needs as a standard of living.</p>
<p>If you are a single person, you can check into the possible of becoming an area director or Graduate assitant in the dorms to lower your living expenses.</p>
<p>Thank you, sybbie719
May I ask what is your source of information. Is it through experience? The reason being:
I am getting pressure from my “parental units” about grad school expenses. They insisted that their friends’ kids all got full rides that covered tuition and living expenses. It’s making me (the only child in the family and 4.0 student through my entire education) feel like a total looser.<br>
I’ve always understood a full ride as tuition free only.</p>
<p>I am currently a grad student for the 3rd time (completed 2 masters program, now on PhD program). If you are in a Masters program, let your parents know that you are extremely lucky to have gotten any substantial amount of scholarship money, let alone a full ride because at the master’s level the majority of the aid is given as loans and full tuition is given to PhD students.</p>
<p>Even though I am a grad student, I go to school for “free” due to a partial scholarship from my school (don’t have the time to do the whole fellowship thing) and through my company’s tuition aid plan (I work a full time job). I don’t live on campus, so I pay to keep a roof over my head and I have a daughter in college, where my being in school does not change her EFC (however, her being in school lowers the EFC that I have to pay).</p>
<p>Your parents must understand that other people tell you what they want you to know and at the end of the day there are many ways to “spin” a story.</p>
<p>Yes, a person could essentially be working 20 hours a week as a graduate or teaching assistant and getting a stipend for doing so, getting tuition remission (free tuition for working those hours), working as a RA in the dorms (so they are essentially “working from home”) and getting free room and board, but the only thing the parents are saying is that they are getting a free ride, not the whole back story.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is doing bilinugal school counseling. Becasue it is a shortage area, the board of education is paying for her masters. She is a RA in the Dorm, so she is getting free room and she has an off-campus job. When some asks her, hwo much she pays to go to school, she says -nothing, I go for free. While on the surface this is true, but if she changes programs- her scholarship is gone, if she doesn’t become a RA next year, she will have to find a place to live and pay rent and if she doesn’t work, she doesn’t eat.</p>
<p>My sister got a scholarship to grad school for masters - tuition was covered and her scholarship for living expenses was a work study job. I remember her tution scholarship being a big deal - especially when my other sister went to grad school for education and there was zero scholarship money inspite of her having a much better undergrad record and GRE scores. I don’t know if that helps at all - but it sounds like you did get a great scholarship.</p>