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To start, make sure you have a notebook for College and Career Success. Each post/activity starts with a quickwrite (QW); you will complete your quickwrites in this notebook, and share them with your EF at your meetings. For each quickwrite, spend about 10 minutes writing down whatever comes to mind in response to the QW prompt. Try to write for the entire 10 minutes.

You can also use this notebook for any thoughts and reflections you want to jot down while completing the activities, and when we get to the college and career planning, you can keep your college list and other notes about college and career interests in your notebook.

If you are new to the course, start at the bottom and work your way up. New posts/activities will appear at the top.

Monday, February 25, 2019

Scholarship Applications

QW: What are some of the benefits of scholarships?


Think about this for a minute.  Imagine you listened to your college advisor and applied for all the scholarships you were eligible for.  And let's say you received a scholarship for $1,000.  That might not seem like a whole lot, but let's think of it in terms of time.  If you're trying to avoid loans, without that scholarship you would have to find a way to come up with that money. If you're working for $10 per hour, that's 100 hours you need to work (probably more, if you factor in taxes and other payroll withholding).  That's 100 hours more over the course of the year, or 10 hours per month, or roughly 2.5 more hours each week that you have to devote to studying, spending time with friends, or trying to catch your breath from you busy life as a student.  Or if you do take out loans, at an average 5% interest, that $1000 would be $1221 you owe after 4 years - so that scholarship is worth even more than $1000. 

Now imagine you could get $5,000 in scholarships.  Using the numbers above, that would be an additional 12.5 hours per week you can study instead of working; if you were to take out that much in student loans, you would now owe $6,107 upon graduation.

That was kind of a long-winded way to convince you that free money is good.  Obviously, we all could use some free money to help with our college expenses.  Why then, do so many students not complete scholarship applications?

Watch this video on scholarships from Khan Academy

Assignment:

Part I: After reading the information above and watching the video, answer the following questions and turn them in to your EF:

  1. Why do you think a lot of students don't apply for scholarships?
  2. What would you say to a friend to convince them it is worthwhile to apply for scholarships?
  3. What is something you learned about scholarships, how to search for them, or how/why to apply?
Part II: Using some of the scholarship search strategies discussed in the previous post, identify several scholarships to apply to.  Complete at least one scholarship application and turn in a copy to your EF.
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