What's the Best way to get Scholarships Money?

Paying for College
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<p>leadership roles? research position w/ a professor at a university? contests/competitions?</p>

<p>what do you think are the best things to do in order to get a good scholarship, and how do most colleges see it?</p>

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<p>bump bump bump!</p>

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<p>please help me :(</p>

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<p>All three… I had quite a few leadership roles in high school along with a lot of community service and have at least $15000 in merit outside scholarships over my four years in college</p>

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<p>“What’s the Best way to get Scholarships Money?”</p>

<p>Apply to lots of scholarships. Hopefully, well before now.</p>

<p>There is no scholarship fairy that will email you $$ when you ask somewhere. Lots of apps, lots of essays, typically. Think local. Lots of rejections, and some wins.</p>

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<p>The best way? Get the highest GPA and Test scores possible then apply to schools that give merit aid.</p>

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<p>Well I recently got the chance to do research w/ a professor at UT and was wondering how much benefit that would create for college admissions/scholarships… does it depend on the type of research? the results obtained? publications? etc…</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>i need to make this decision soon so anything will help…</p>

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<p>I think your question about scholarships has been answered.</p>

<p>If you have an opportunity to do research with a University professor, take it. It will benefit you in many ways. Whether it will lead to a scholarship nobody can predict.</p>

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<p>alright, thanks. the only problem was i wasn’t looking for the best ivy league schools to apply to. perhaps upenn, columbia, cornell, but not harvard, princeton, or anything like that. i might apply to some notable public schools as well. but i guess it’s still a good idea.</p>

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<p>ok i guess my last (final!!) question is: what if the research i do proves inconclusive? I know that it’s a good thing if the results prove something, but what if the data doesn’t lead to any useful results?</p>

<p>how would collges see that kind of scenario?</p>

<p>Thanks everyone for your help</p>

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<p>You’ll likely be helping do some basic work on one portion of a larger research project, and if the research is ever published, it’s unlikely your name would be on it. Also unlikely that you’ll be able to determine in a year or so whether the research ended up with conclusive, or significant results. Most research is pretty boring, and often inconsequential.</p>

<p>So you do it for the experience. And you can include on your scholarship app that you did it.</p>