Scholarships Resources
AG
I am researching scholarships and grants in the hopes of locating funding
for my education. I intend on completing my Bachelors in pre-law, and
ultimately, attending law school. I have posted my student profile at
www.universityquest.com to help college recruiters find me, and have started
the FAFSA processing via the web. As you can see, I have started the ball
rolling, and am serious about it.
If possible, I hope to avoid a lifetime of student loan payments. Do any of
you educators, faculty, or students know of excellent resources online or
via the web?
Thanks,
AG
Steve
>I am researching scholarships and grants in the hopes of locating funding
>for my education. I intend on completing my Bachelors in pre-law, and
>ultimately, attending law school. I have posted my student profile at
>www.universityquest.com to help college recruiters find me, and have started
>the FAFSA processing via the web. As you can see, I have started the ball
>rolling, and am serious about it.
And you've actually *applied* where again, dear?
>If possible, I hope to avoid a lifetime of student loan payments. Do any of
>you educators, faculty, or students know of excellent resources online or
>via the web?
This isn't exactly what you were asking for, but it may be of some
help. This is from the Internet Tourbus ( http://www.tourbus.com ), a rather
excellent twice-weekly e-zine of cool stuff on the web; written so a novice
can utilize it, interesting enough that a "netizen" (who would probably never
call themselves that) will find it useful.
Here's a repost of the resource "BrokeScholar" which may be of help.
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BrokeScholar
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You know how schools have a dean's list for students with exceptional grades?
Well, I am here to tell you that your fearless bus driver's name never graced
such a list. My grades in college were utterly atrocious ... so atrocious that
I am all but certain that I graduated from the University of Alabama with a
*NEGATIVE* GPA. The only reason I received a degree in the first place was
that I had been a student at the University for so long that the University
was left with only two options: give me a degree or give me tenure. The
degree was cheaper. :P
Well, cheaper for the University anyway. I still had to pay my own tuition.
[Here begins the worst segue in the history of Tourbus. Please accept my
apologies ahead of time.] Had I been a more diligent student, I might have
been able to take advantage of the services offered by BrokeScholar at
<A HREF="http://www.brokescholar.com/">
http://www.brokescholar.com/ </A>.
Put simply, BrokeScholar is a free search engine that lets you search through
a database of more than 900,000 college scholarships. Just go to the
BrokeScholar Web site and click on the blue "Start Free Scholarship Search"
button in the middle of the page.
In order for BrokeScholar to find scholarships for which you are eligible, you
need to provide the site with some personal information. Clicking on the blue
"Start Free Scholarship Search" button takes you to a six page form. Page one
asks for your name and email address, page two asks for your date of birth and
address, page three asks for the name of your college (or the names of the
colleges to which you applied) and your expected graduation date, page four
asks for your demographic data, page five asks for your activities and
interests, and (sadly) the final page tries to sell you some magazines. Just
click on the blue "no thanks" button on the magazine ad page to continue.
This dumps you to a preferences page that asks you if you would like to
receive email updates and how you found out about BrokeScholar. Complete this
page and then click on the blue "Finish>>" button.
This takes you to your profile page and at the bottom of this page is a blue
"Search using my profile" button. Click on it and BrokeScholar shows you all
of the scholoarships that match your profile.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! :)
BrokeScholar shows you each scholarship's name, how much money is available,
and the application deadline. Click on the name of any scholarship and
BrokeScholar shows you more in-depth information about that scholarship
including applicable majors and schools, contact information, and even a link
to the scholarship provider's Web site.
Cool, huh? :)
By the way, even if you don't use BrokeScholar's free search engine, do take a
minute to read the site's "Scholarship Q&A" page at
<A HREF="http://www.brokescholar.com/articles/160004.html">
http://www.brokescholar.com/articles/160004.html </A>.
This page debunks a lot of common misconceptions about scholarships such as
- Is there such a thing as a guaranteed scholarship? [No.]
- Should I have to pay an application fee for a scholarship? [No.]
- Are there billions of dollars worth of unclaimed scholarships every year?
[No.]
The scholarship industry has its fair share of con artists. BrokeScholar's
Scholarship Q&A page gives you the information necessary to hopefully protect
yourself from becoming a victim of one of these con artists.
Steve
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Despues de derramar su café en su pierna, "AG"
<agfre...@hotmail.com> golpeó su cabeza contra la pared, crujió los
nudillos, refunfuñando "Qué voy a comer?", sacó un revolver y disparó
por el techo, y escribió
>Hello;
>
>I am researching scholarships and grants in the hopes of locating funding
>for my education. I intend on completing my Bachelors in pre-law, and
>ultimately, attending law school.
That's unfortunate. Por qué no haces algo util con tu vida?
>If possible, I hope to avoid a lifetime of student loan payments. Do any of
>you educators, faculty, or students know of excellent resources online or
>via the web?
It took me about a minute to find some good sites through Google.
And to mehsc: This post would have been culled out by a bot that
filtered messages with excessive crossposts. Quantify excessive? A
plurality. It's too late to vote for Goldwater in 64, so let's vote
for a moderating bot.
La vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida.
My ancestors swung by their necks, not their tails.
I suport publick skool
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