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6 College Scholarships That Award Leadership
Tweet Share on Facebook July 28, 2011 Comment (5)It's no secret that colleges look to students' leadership and volunteer experience when determining who they select to join their ranks. If you're serious about getting into college, you know that your applications should cover the leadership skills you've acquired and volunteer work you've done while in high school. What you may not realize is that there are a lot of people out there who will pay you back big time for all the free work you've done over the last four years.
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If you don't have any volunteer experience under your belt, these scholarships should be the ultimate motivation to get yourself moving immediately. On the other hand, if you've thrived by paying it forward, consider a job in public service upon graduation. After 10 years of full-time public service work, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program will forgive whatever outstanding principal and interest remains from your federal loans. Who doesn't love free money?
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Help the Economy: Donate to a Scholarship
Tweet Share on Facebook July 21, 2011 CommentAt Scholarship America, we hear time and again from students who receive scholarships through our programs that they benefit from both the financial assistance and the knowledge that their community believes in them enough to subsidize their education. Some students have shared that earning a scholarship was the catalyst for going to college, and to persisting in their studies to earn their degree. Some tell us that if it weren't for scholarships, they wouldn't have attended college at all.
[Read 5 reasons why scholarships are essential.]
A new study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, The Undereducated American, confirms the importance of helping more students get into and complete an education beyond high school. The study's authors, Anthony P. Carnevale and Stephen J. Rose, found that over the past 30 years, the demand for college-educated workers has outpaced supply—and we will need to add 20 million postsecondary-educated workers to the economy by 2025 if we are to regain our No. 1 global position in college graduates.
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Consider These Rhodes Scholarship Tips
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2011 Comment (2)There are thousands of scholarships out there for students at every level of academics, and they can all make a huge difference in the right student's life. But when it comes to prestige, name recognition and financial impact, there are a few that stand out—none more so than the century-old Rhodes Scholarship, whose recipients have gone on to become presidents (Bill Clinton), prime ministers (Canada's John Turner and Jamaica's Norman Manley), senators, Supreme Court justices, Olympians, Palme d'Or winners, university presidents, NFL stars, Nobel Prize recipients, and more.
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The scholarship was founded in 1902 upon the death of Cecil Rhodes—a British diamond magnate so wealthy he had an entire country named after him—as the first large-scale international academic exchange program. Its mission is simple but wide ranging: funding prestigious programs of study at Rhodes's alma mater, University of Oxford, for qualified students from outside the United Kingdom. Each year, regional selection committees pick 32 Rhodes scholars from the United States from a field of around 1,000 applicants; there are 80 Rhodes scholars worldwide each year. Those selected receive tuition and living expenses for at least two years, with a third potentially available depending on programs of study. To apply, students must be ages 18 to 24, and must have a completed bachelor's degree prior to entering Oxford. And, just like in 1902, those recipients are selected based on criteria laid out in Rhodes's will:
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5 Reasons Why Scholarships Are Essential
Tweet Share on Facebook July 7, 2011 Comment (2)Since we launched The Scholarship Coach in December 2010, we've tried to give you as much advice as possible on how to seek out and apply for scholarships, and also highlight the best ways to boost your chances of receiving a scholarship. We also think it's important that you understand the bigger picture as to why scholarships have become so essential to the majority of students who want to graduate with a college degree—and why it's imperative that you understand that scholarships can be vital to your post-college success. Here are the top five reasons why you can't afford not to apply for scholarships in 2011.
