Scholarship

I recently received some information on other scholarship opportunities available that I thought would probably be important to many of you who like me have family/relatives in college or getting ready to attend. I suspect they came my way because of the existing scholarship links on the website already...

The following come from an organization called, scholarship@studentscholarships.org. You can click on the link for more info- They're are a ton of other scholarships listed here by category, etc. Another link provided by Mike Carranza, Dean of Financial Services at South Texas College is, http://fastweb.com (see his comments below).

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2010 Independence Day Scholarship (Deadline: July 2, 2010). This $5000 scholarship is open to students of all national backgrounds that are currently studying in the United States or in an American military school out of the country.
Website: www.joefoss.com/programs/scholarship-program

Castle Ink's Green Scholarship (Deadline: July 31, 2010). This $2500 scholarships is for students who are United States citizen or permanent resident with a minimum 2.5 Grade Point Average. Website: www.castleink.com/_ink-scholarship.html

Society of American Travel Writers Scholarship (Deadline: August 1, 2010). Applicants must be ages 13-18 and attending grades 8-12 as of May 15, 2010. The travel experience you write about must have occurred within the last three years. Website: www.travelbigo.com/scholarships/SATW

Pfizerâ€™s Scholarship Award (Deadline: June 15, 2010). This $2000 scholarship is available to high school senior who has applied to college or a freshman, sophomore, or junior in college. Website: www.epilepsy-scholarship.com

Mike Carranza, Director of Financial Aid Services of STC does offer this "heads up" about the Student Scholarships. org site and offers another site that is completely free. See Mike's comments and link below:

Good morning Dan,

I also checked the sites and they do look legit. However, there are some sites that require credit card information used for donating or to purchase items so be careful when students are filling out the applications.

Another good tool is http://fastweb.com which is a free website but it does have some advertisements. Students can just indicate they are not interested and continue in creating their profile. The profile will be used by the website to collect scholarship information for students which they can review and decide if they are interested in applying for the scholarship or not. Students don’t have to navigate through the thousands of scholarships, the database will use the students profile to match it with the scholarships out there and populate them on the students account for their review

Thanks

Mike Carranza, Associate Dean

Student Financial Services