Why U Miami when got accepted in UF ??

rankinr
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:04:26 +0000

I look for scholarships on a website called [Fastweb : Scholarships, Financial Aid, Student Loans and Colleges](http://www.fastweb.com/) - as new scholarships become available, they will automatically send you e-mails. When you register, you fill out a profile which includes all the things typically used to classify scholarships (race, economic status, country of birth, sports you play, special talents you have, etc.) and they pull up everything for which you are eligible to apply. Unfortunately, lots of the scholarships they show you are the giant ones that everyone across the country is applying for.

I know that the Elks offers some good scholarships (I have two from them) so if anyone in your family is an Elk, you can take advantage of that. Not many people apply for those, so they’re not too competitive, and you can go all the way up to the national level where I think they pay quite a large amount. Also, building on that, local scholarships are a great place to look. I bet the rotary or some other organizations in your local community offer scholarships. They’re great, because you’re not competing with 20,000 other people to try to get one scholarship. And, if you add a bunch of these scholarships together, it really covers a lot.

And I also agree with CPR777 - the small class size and small university population is definitely worth a bit of extra money. I mean, this semester I have two classes with 7 people in them. Half of our classes have less than 16 people in them, and 75% have less than 25. In the communications school, I think the classes have a maximum size of 16 people, and in the philosophy department, I know that the classes are limited to either 8, 16, or 25 people, depending on the course (usually 16). But it’s up to your son to decide just how much it is worth to him.