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The majority of students and parents believe that the only way you can get a scholarship is if you are at the top of your class, with mostly straight A’s, and high test scores. Obviously, it’s true that helps, but there are a variety of scholarships you can receive that are not based on academic achievement. Here you can explore the different scholarship opportunities that are available.
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
Academic scholarships, better known as merit scholarships, are usually given to students with high GPAs, who took part in several extracurricular activities and have well-rounded applications. These scholarships are the most sought after because they typically have the highest payouts and are considered very prestigious. If you know your grades and test scores are not the best, applying for these scholarships is probably a waste of time, seeing as how the competition is very stiff.
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS
Are you good at basketball, football, cheerleading, tennis, or any other sport? Then you may want to consider applying for an athletic scholarship. Emphasis is not focused on your grades, but more on how well you excel in the sport in which you participate. To be honest, you can basically find a scholarship for almost every single sport you can conceive. So, if you are at the top of your sport, an athletic scholarship is the way to go.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
If you love to give to others or back to your community then you definitely need to consider a community service scholarship. If you haven’t already, you should consider signing up for a community service project or do some volunteering. These actions will help bolster your chances of being rewarded with a scholarship based on your philanthropy and humanitarianism.
You can learn more or apply here.
You can learn more or apply here.
You can learn more or apply here.
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Personal background scholarships are awarded to certain groups of people usually based on criteria such as gender, race, or sexual orientation. For example, there are scholarships that only men qualify and ones where only women qualify. To take it even further, there are scholarships that only black, gay, disabled women can qualify. These scholarships can be hard to find, but if you use utilize a scholarship finder, and you enter as much specific, personal information about yourself into the search engine, you might be surprised at the results for which you qualify.
You can learn more or apply here.
AFFILIATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Affiliation scholarships do consider things such as academic merit and community involvement, but the main criteria is that you or a family member must be affiliated with a certain group, whether that be a specific company, club, union, community, etc. Now would be a good time to see if any group of which you are a member provides funding for college.
You can learn more or apply here.
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