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Have you dreamt yet that your prospective schools received erroneous SAT scores — very low scores!? And that the final essays were full of typos that kept going back to wrong even after being corrected? And the applications wouldn’t go through, one minute before the deadline? First college anxiety dream…
Ron Brown Scholar Program awards $10,000 each year for four years to economically-disadvantaged high school seniors of African descent who demonstrate a keen interest in public service, community engagement, business entrepreneurship and global citizenship. This is a great opportunity for qualifying students who have very high grades and test scores. Students chosen for these scholarships are very impressive: more than half of the Scholars end up attending Ivy League universities.
Ron Brown Scholar Program was established in honor of the late Ronald H. Brown, an attorney who worked for Senator Ted Kennedy, then as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and finally as Secretary of Commerce for President Bill Clinton. It was while serving in President Clinton’s cabinet that Brown perished in an airplane crash while on a mission to Eastern Europe.
According to the website, recipients may use the renewable scholarships to attend an accredited four-year college or university of their choice within the United States. Ron Brown scholarships are not limited to any specific field or career objective and may be used to pursue any academic discipline. Since the Program’s inception in 1996, more than 300 students have been designated as Ron Brown Scholars.
FINAL DEADLINE: usually first week of January.
NOTE: this scholarship is one of the few that requires a paper application to be MAILED! So make sure your materials, recommendations, test scores etc are all ready BEFORE Thanksgiving so that the package arrives in the RBSP office in plenty of time to be considered.
All high seniors and parents have gotten their FAFSA PIN numbers and have drafted their Financial Aid forms, right? HS seniors should try to send their forms out ASAP, using parents’ tax forms from usually a year before last year. With your parents’ permission, FAFSA, being a government service (the website ends in “. gov”), can connect to the IRS and download the data from your 1040. This makes the form even easier to complete. Some people may need to manually type in the numbers themselves; usually they have complicated investments and businesses. They might want to ask a financial advisor for some advice as to what is supposed to be added into the form. But bottom line: the earlier you file, the earlier you get in the line for financial aid.
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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation was created by a philanthropist and funded by his estate. About 115 high school seniors receive scholarships that cover “unmet need”, meeting expenses after Pell grants and college grants. This means that some students can get scholarships up to $40,000 a year as long as they maintain a good average in college! Applications are filled out via the Common App and deadline is usually the first week of November.
From the website, among the criteria used in the selection process are:
It is a competitive process, but if you’re not in it, you can’t win it!
https://www.jkcf.org/our-scholarships/college-scholarship-program/
A top college can receive way more than 22,000 applications for 3,000 seats! Or even waaaay more! How can the school get through that in only a few months? Instead of one person reading an entire application, a committee can split parts of a application: one person reads the application, another the teacher recommendations, another looks over the grades and test scores, all supervised by someone familiar with the region in which an applicant lives, and hopefully familiar with that high school. It’s called “Committee-Based Evaluation”. Yeah, one person doesn’t get to entirely know a student, but they express support or defend that student for the part that they read.
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BOTTOM LINE: no matter where you are, do better than your best in high school and do interesting impactful things outside of class in order to stand out among thousands of applications.
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The reason many students don’t finish and earn a degree is because they run out of money. Financial aid doesn’t cover all their expenses and many families are unaware of all the expenses beyond tuition and the dorm. Strategize and plan your scholarship applications so that you find some to apply to each year.
Time to focus on scholarships that are looking to help Hispanic Students:
Check the deadlines and put them on your calendar. Don’t wait until last minute to apply!
For some scholarships, many will apply, and few will win one. Regardless, it could be you; you’ve go to be in it to win it! Good luck!
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The Gates Scholarship was founded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates founded the Microsoft Corporation. 300 Scholars are chosen each year and will receive funding for the full cost of attendance that is not already covered by other financial aid and the expected family contribution (EFC). Cost of attendance includes tuition, fees, room, board, books, and transportation, and may include other personal costs. Basically that means the scholarship should be the amount after Full Cost of Attendance minus Pell Grants, minus college grants, minus EFC. That is the grey area that would require families to take out loans to meet the difference!
Deadline is the first week of September — work fast! Click Here: https://www.thegatesscholarship.org/about-gates
According to the website, to apply, students must be:
This is a competitive scholarship, so according to the website, the selection committee is looking for:
Click Here: https://www.thegatesscholarship.org/about-gates
