Problems with College / Scholarships...?
Question:
Any suggestions? And please, do not recommend Fastweb or any related sites, they have proved useless so far.
Answer:
Have you looked at journalism-specific awards, grants, work-study programs, fellowships, and scholarships? Sometimes, the money comes from organizations that have little to do with the university itself.
Here are two sites, one with a grant, and another that lists journalism-related scholarships:
http://chronicle.com/help/milleraward.ht...
http://www.ajr.org/awards1.asp
Try to get some local scholarships. I applied to 10 and got them all. Then went to a community college and get about all of them a semester. Well the reason why i chose the community was because it had better engineering programs but i plan to transfer to a four year later.
Anyways try some local scholarships if not go to the college ( if its in reach) financial aid office and talk to them about the different scholarships.
If you can't get scholarships or grants, don't forgo your education. Your dad knows the value of the investment.
Why don't you go to a Junior College and take out the loans there? They are a lot cheaper. Then after 2 years, you can transfer to a University and maybe by that time you'll be eligible for what you're looking for.
Good luck. you sound like a great gal!
Join the military, go to war, and four to five years later you can go to school for free.
Have you gone to: http://www.scholarships.com/ ? They do a free search for scholarships. Check out the site, it may help.
This site has several listings for scholarships and grants that are allready out there and other interesting infor: http://collegeapps.about.com/od/payingfo... It also has a free newsletter for which you may request.
This site is for fathers, but it has some good links at the bottom of the page for other subjects. It just may help you or your dad find scholorships or grants for which you may be eleligible: http://fatherhood.about.com/cs/fatherhoo...
This site is for MSU, but they have some really good links for detecting scholarship scams, personal scholarship searches, and a link to other sources of financial aid: http://www.finaid.msu.edu/sships.asp...
If you have an ethinc background you may wish to visit this site: http://www.2futuro.com/english/students/... It is listed for Hispanics so you may want to read carefully. The suggestions may not apply to you, but this site does have some very good insights in searching for scholarships.
I don't know if you have looked into the Education Services Foundation in your search for financial aid, if not, you may wish to peruse this site: http://www.esfweb.com/scholarships.html...
Most colleges offer their own scholarships but sometimes you just don't meet their requitements. Then you have to go out for corporation scholarships like Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Business Reporting Program. Here is the site: http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund... Their table of contents to the left may prove to be informational. I hope so.
RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association and foundation has a good site you may wish to visit: http://www.rtnda.org/asfi/scholarships/s...
I hope something here can help you, good luck.
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