...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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...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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...“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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...| 2013 | | Donisha BrewerProfessor Stuart English 102 | [Junior rotc] | | Growing up I was never the person to be interested in joining the military. I actually frowned upon the idea. In my junior year of high school I was enrolled in the JROTC program. I didn’t last two week in the program before I had my mother come and withdraw me from the program and enroll me in P.E. At the time I didn’t know what ROTC and the benefits the program had to offer. As I have gotten older I have found out that there are many benefits for the students who are in the JROTC program. There is more than one branch of the JROTC. It has just as many branches as the United States Military. If I had had some prior knowledge on JROTC when I was in high school I may have giving it a chance. Junior ROTC is a part of a federal program that is sponsored by the United States Armed Forces. Junior ROTC is located within High Schools across America. Many students who enroll in the JROTC are more likely to enlist in part of the United States Military. The Reserve Officers Training Corps also known as ROTC began in 1916 on the campus of Yale University. Hundreds of thousands of cadets have trained there since then. Approximately 70,000 ROTC cadets train at over 300 campuses (Wissing 39). The latest branch was opened in 2011 when the secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus joined with Yale President Richard Levin to re-establish the ROTC on its campus. It had been 40 years since the last ROTC class graduated...
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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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...Star College – CyFair Honors Program Honors Scholarship Proposal Presented by: Jacob N. Qurashi and Tashara A. Frasier I. Title (Honors Scholarship Proposal ) II. Purpose To create a scholarship for LSC-CyFair students actively enrolled in honors courses or taking honors by contract which will aide students enrolled in these courses and serve as a recruitment and retention incentive to both the honors program and the college at large. III. Introduction a. Background As part of an ongoing student outreach campaign for the LSC-CyFair Honors Program, the Honors Student Organization has participated in many campus events this last year. Interested students frequently ask whether or not the Honors Program offers a scholarship to its students. At the present time LSC-CyFair does not offer a scholarship to its honors students. We believe creating a scholarship will not only help students taking honors classes which typically require additional materials or expenses in addition to those already incurred in the regular section, but can used as a marketing device for the honors program and the campus. Over the last couple of years, representatives of the Honors Student Organization have meet with Student Outreach to encourage publicity of the Honors Program at Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District high schools and local National Honors Society advisors; the addition of an honors scholarship would be a powerful selling point to both students...
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...Many students around the world today focus mainly 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 yearn? The answer is education several countries are known for their exceptional 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 bright students and a very rigorous education system that showers students with pressure from parents to perform exceptional in school. Anita Desai, who is the author of Studies in the Park, shows us how the 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 nagging at them to study. Anita Desai’s Studies in the Park undoubtedly connects with the importance of education worldwide, pressure placed on students for education and the pressure for incentives...
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...From the academic school year of 2000-2001 to 2015-2016 there was about an average $7,900 tuition, fees, room, and board fee increase in public 4-year colleges in the United States (Tuition and Fees and Room and Board over Time). According to The Department of Education, about 40% of college students in the middle class achieved their bachelor's degree within 8 years. That is about 60% that dropped out because of financial issues, low grades, or illegal behavior. The cost of college education is rising, which is why it should be free. Students often cannot attend college because not everyone can qualify for federal help, the tuition and housing cost rising each year, many students having to pay their phone bills and be able to pay for other...
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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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...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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