...Junior year of high school comes around and you’re sitting at the dining room table with your parents discussing how you are already halfway done with high school and almost ready to start your college education. Wow, college, just thinking about it makes you excited, but extremely nervous. So many questions come along with college and the education you will be receiving. What are you going to study, what college will you attend, and most importantly how are you going to afford it? You’re not in the top ten, but still an average student. You are on athletic teams, but not the superstar athlete of your high school by any means. Students believe that they need to be the best at everything to receive a scholarship of any type, but that’s where a lot of them think wrong. Scholarships are available to almost any student and can be granted to students for more than just grades and athletics. The possibilities for scholarships are limitless and give you the best way to have some or even all of your college education paid for. Growing up many students think they need to be in the top ten or getting straight A’s and passing every test. Which isn’t completely wrong because when you do fall into that category it can make receiving scholarships an easier process. Although, if you don’t fall into that category scholarships are nowhere near impossible to receive because of the hundreds of options provided by companies and colleges in every state. Academic scholarships often called...
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...fund for their own college education. By graduating high school, students may feel overwhelmed especially when their parents do not have the expenses to pay for their child’s college education. Some students can earn scholarships and others expect the government to help pay for their college expenses. In the excerpt, “Students Should Not Expect the Government to Help Pay for College Expenses”, Gary O’Neill claims that students who are seeking a higher education, and do not have the expenses to pay for it, should not expect the government to help them. Indirectly, the government already helps pay for college expenses through services such as fire departments, medical assistance and police protection. Also,...
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...“Why Education is Important to Me” By: Hernika Alridge Many students around the world today focus mainly on one thing while they are in school; Career and income, but how do you achieve that? How does one get the career they want and the income they desire? The answer is education several countries are known for their superior performance in academics and the pressure related to their education. Among those countries are China, India and Japan. These three countries share a lot in common; exceptionally smart students and a very strict education system that flood students with pressure from parents to perform extroadinary in school. Anita Desai, who is the author of Studies in the Park, shows us how much education is important in India. Studies in the Park is about a young man named Suno. Suno is ready to apply for college, but before he goes into college, he must pass the entrance exams for his college. Suno undergoes pressure from his parents to study hard and pass the entrance exams. Suno is always reminded from his parents that he expects good results from him and he should just be studying. Suno starts to get fed up with all the talks and his loud home, so he tries and find a new place to go and study; The Park. At the park he meets other students who are just like him; tired of all the noise at home and fed up from their parents fussing at them to study. Anita Desai’s Studies in the Park obviously connects with the significance of education worldwide...
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...most well-rounded students in the nation. All through High School teachers, loved ones, and friends constantly remind you of the looming decisions to be made in the near future with their constant questions. Where are you going to apply? What are you going to do? What are you going to major in? How much money will that major make? Most importantly, what school will accept you? Colleges look mainly at grades, SAT or ACT scores, and service hours. The sign of a well-rounded, complete student is a high level of achievement in each of these three categories. Service hours play a major role in getting accepted into college as well as receiving scholarships. On top of college acceptance and scholarships, there are a couple benefits to serving in the community — work and life experience, connections, and a broader worldview. At this point in my life, these can be an essential part of my college career as well as after college in finding jobs. Work and life experiences are important in trying to find something you love to do. Without those experiences, your decisions about a major can become pointless. Secondly, connections can result in job placement, friendships,...
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...THAT MONEY HONEY! TOP 101 SCHOLARSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OTHER MINORITY STUDENTS (More Than $50 Million Dollars in Financial Aid Available!) Published by Urban Ebooks/ Dante Lee Publishing www.urbanebooks.com This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) SCHOLARSHIPS WITH JANUARY DEADLINES #1 - Ron Brown Scholar Program for African Americans: The Ron Brown Scholar Program provides scholarship awards to African-American high school seniors who are excelling in their academics, exhibiting exceptional leadership potential, and actively serving in community service activities. For more details, visit www.ronbrown.org #2 - Gates Millennium Scholars Program For Minority Students: The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (also known as the Bill Gates Scholarship) awards scholarships each year to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American students who plan to enroll full-time in a two-year or four-year college or university program. For more details, visit www.gmsp.org Copyright © 2016 All Rights Reserved. This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) #3 - Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship: The Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship awards a full scholarship to one student to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors with high academic records. For more...
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...Scholarship Matches (January 22, 2013) Visine Students with Vision Scholarship Program Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products Purpose: To assist students who have a vision and communicate their vision through an essay or video. Eligibility: Applicants must be a high school senior or a college freshman, sophomore or junior and demonstrate involvement in school activities and/or community service. Students must also demonstrate financial need and have a clear vision and be able to communicate their vision through a well-written essay or video presentation. A minimum GPA of 2.8 is required. Deadline: March 1 Amount: $5,000. Awards: Up to 10. Renewable: No. How to Apply: Applications are available online. Contact Information: c/o International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc. 1321 Murfreesboro Road, Suite 800 Nashville, TN 37217 Phone: 855-670-ISTS Email: contactus@applyists.com SanDisk Foundation Scholarship Program SanDisk Foundation Schoalrship Program Purpose: To assist students who have demonstrated leadership or entrepreneurial interests. Eligibility: Applicants must be a high school senior or college freshman, sophomore or junior and must attend or plan to attend a full-time undergraduate program. Students must also demonstrate financial need. Up to 27 $2,500 renewable awards will given to students from the general public, up to three $2,500 renewable awards will be given to dependents of SanDisk employees and two students will be chosen as SanDisk Scholars and awarded...
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...Julia Bunnell/ Mile Cristobal /Caleb Pippins/ Luke Byrd ENG II-3 Mrs.DeGrood 2/15-22/18 School Sports School sports are an extracurricular activity offered in most school. According to Teen Magazine 46% of students play a school sport during their four years of highschool. The most common high school sports are baseball, basketball, and football, but some schools may offer others such as bowling, tennis, volleyball. School sports may open doors for student athletes. School sports are beneficial because they can keep students in shape, help with social and team player skills, and offer scholarships. School sports are important because it can often help keep high school students stay in shape or get in shape. They can help with maintaining...
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...UsA-PeopleWorking At AboitizJob SearchFuture TalentsGetting HiredContact Us If there are no positions that meet your preferences or match your qualifications, click here to create your profile. Future Leaders Business SummitScholarship ProgramOJT Program The Aboitiz College Scholarship Program Championing Academic Excellence To Shape Tomorrow's Leaders Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) believes that a good education is the powerful foundation that exceptional leadership is built on. In line with this, AEV has created a scholarship program designed to support and inspire students to value, appreciate and make the most of their education. The Aboitiz College Scholarship Program (ACSP) is currently open to outstanding undergraduate students pursuing degrees in Accountancy, Business / Management, Information Technology, and Engineering. The scholarship provides the students with financial assistance to defray tuition and miscellaneous expenses, book requirements, and transportation needs. The scholarship is renewable every semester, for as long as the student maintains the 85% GPA requirement (or its equivalent) and makes normal progress toward a degree. Program Eligibility To apply for the Scholarship Program,the applicant must: * Be a full-time 1st to 4th year incoming student of an eligible college or university; * Be pursuing a degree in Accountancy, Business / Management, IT, or Engineering; * Have a final average grade / cumulative overall GPA not lower...
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...If you want to play sport you should have to have a good grade. But Colleges care, Colleges care about every grade to make their school stand out, and help you succeed in life. Another good grades reason to have good grades is that Colleges are most likely to scout you and want you to play for them. Let me just say you will not get into college if you have low grades. Especially when you take your ACT’s and SAT’s in High School. They critical to get into college and if you’re not prepared and have bad grades you will do poorly. If you want to play sport in college but a college can’t give you a scholarship for sport like Division 111 for example, and you can’t afford it. You can still earn one academically. According to (get real on scholarships by the washington post) it says, “only about 19 percent of high school students with a grade-point average of 3.5 to 4.0 (on a 4.0 scale) get the awards...the odds of gaining an athletic scholarship are just 0.7 percent”. If you want to be in that 19 percent you have to get a good grade. Plus, if you do get into a school with an academic scholarship you could walk onto a sports team. Have you ever heard the saying “school comes first”? It’s true, for all of these reasons school is needed to get into college and if you want to be on the sports team! Nothing in life just works out perfectly, you have to work for it. What Virat Kohli says, “Self-belief...
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...Athletic Scholarship A couple years ago many talented athletes did not have the money to attend college after high school. This is still a problem in today's society. On the other hand, young men and women who are eligible to get a athletic scholarships are closer to reaching their goal and controlling sufficient funds to better educate themselves. Many pros and cons could be argued for and against academic scholarships, but the real question is does Athletic Scholarships benefit college athletes and the university's ? The first reason athletic scholarships can benefit the university is by being able to help build a strong athletic program . The college has to decide on whether or not to give out scholarships to their athletes or just...
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...What is a college education worth? Is it worth more than books, tuition, room, and board? Some people think that college athletes should get more than this. College athletes shouldn't be paid for playing college sports because some already get a full- ride scholarship to the college. Many people think they should be paid above and beyond their scholarship to play their sport, but the athletes are already receiving the benefit of a free education. Why is it that some people feel college athletes should get paid above and beyond their scholarship money? Some say the extra money will be used to pay for meals they eat off-campus, clothes, or a trip over spring break. The college athletes believe other kids get money from their parents on top of their scholarships, so why shouldn’t they? They can get jobs because they do not have practice to attend, so they can make money on the side. Some people feel like it would teach the kids financial responsibilities before they can receive the big contract in the NBA, NFL, or MLB. That is something every kid needs to know but what about the kids that do not get forwarded scholarships how do they learn. They...
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...Granville T. Woods was. Not being able to accept my partial (65%) scholarship to Howard University did hinder me from my original plan but I chose not to give up. I chose to continue to work my way up in my education and career at BCCC instead of taking the simple way out by joining different groups such as the work force, or the military. My goal is to abide at this school for two years and to transfer to a 4 year university. The main component of my goal is the money, and this scholarship would help in achieving this. My family is a normal Middle class family that makes normal middle class wages, and just like most middle class families we have debts that seem to never end. This is the reason why I could not attend Howard University. With the debts that my parents still have they chose to not add on anymore anymore stress by taking out more loans but to instead give me another option, Community College. Even though they have said they can pay for Community College I would prefer them not to have to deal with anymore hassle. Me receiving this scholarship would eliminate the worry of my parents paying for my education and would enable me to focus solely on doing well in school. I am a graduate of Oxon Hill High school's science and technology program. This entails that I had to test to get into the school and if I was accepted I would be agreeing to a more difficult curriculum than a normal high school student. This programs goal is to give students a general education...
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...At every school in America, there are students that go to school and work their hardest each and every day. They take the hardest classes and challenge themselves more than anyone in their school. At most schools these students are rewarded for deciding to take the difficult route and challenging themselves by means of a weighted GPA. However, there are also students like this who go to schools that do not have a weighted GPA, and the difficult classes they take weigh the same as a general level class. This is why state governments should introduce a statewide high school GPA, so that equality is provided to every student, especially when it comes to applying to college. Applying to college is important and a statewide GPA scale would positively affect this because, “Honors and advanced-placement classes and also can positively affect an admissions decision” (Weaver 1) and with this said GPA system each student would have the same opportunity as those who go to a different schools across the state. Grading systems have been around since the very beginning of schooling. Instructors needed some way to rank their students so they had an idea of how their teaching was affecting them.“In essence, grading is an exercise in professional judgment on the part of teachers. It involves the collection and evaluation of evidence on students' achievement or performance over a specified period of time, such as nine weeks, an academic semester, or entire school year” (Guskey 2). In the beginning...
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...scholarships are prestigious awards for student athletes. More times than not athletic scholarships are rarer than academic scholarships. It says a lot about an athlete if they can accomplish competing at the next level in college, but it says more when they are awarded with a scholarship. Most athletes work a substantial amount of their lives to have an opportunity to earn an athletic scholarship. ` Typically, most athletes that are in college, have received some type of athletic aid. Approximately there are 300 hundred total varsity athletic scholarships available in Division 1. Athletes have to work toward a scholarship since they are a freshman and sometimes even younger. It is not easy to get the attention of college coaches. Therefore, scholarships are not as easy as people make them out to be. On average, the amount given to each student is roughly $13,800. A lot of people think athletes get full ride scholarships but in reality it is not enough to cover for the full cost of college. If they were to receive more than the average cost they would be able to actually afford to buy the necessities that an average day college student may go through. The average cost of college in the United States is estimated to be around $33,000. And if we base this number on the amount that we had stated above we would get the amount of $19,200 and multiplying this by four we would have the typical college student leaving with $76,800 dollars in debt if they were on track...
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...This school year has been a roller coaster ride for me, It seems as if just when everything was going wonderful for me life just took a left turn. Not to long ago in February I was just blessed with an opportunity for an advertising scholarship, out of a various amount of students only me and another student in my school was lucky enough to get an internship. Many say I am blessed to have gotten this opportunity out of a large amount of students, but I just looked at it as If I just did what I had to do when the time was right. Since I’ve gotten this job I feel like I’m at home, this job allows me to be me and experience life of the advertising world. Since I junior high school I’ve always had love for advertising and music. Both music and...
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