SCHOLARSHIPS!
The best way to finance your studies
Lesson Summary
- What Is a Scholarship?
- There's a scholarship for YOU
- What Do You Need to Do?
- How Can You Go About Getting a Scholarship?
- Some sample Scholarships
What IS a Scholarship?
A Scholarship is defined as a financial award
for a student scholar for the purpose of furthering their
education.
Education can be expensive. Very expensive. If you're rich, you
shouldn't have a problem paying for college. If you want to work
while studying, you should be ok. If you feel like borrowing money
to pay for university, that's fine. But there's a better way.
Schools, institutes and companies want to give you
money.
Yes, that's right. Scholarships attached to successful students
can raise a school's reputation, create productive representatives
of institutes, and help nurture future ideal employees for top
companies. That's why scholarships exist, and they're out there for
you to take advantage, so don't be shy - apply.
There's a Scholarship for YOU!
If you're thinking, "I'm not special, why would anybody give me
money?", you're wrong. There's a scholarship out there just
for you, you just have to find it. If you have
good marks, if you volunteer, if you help out in your community, if you participate in extracurricular activities, even if you have a
disability- you're eligible for something.
Take a look at these stats from Scholarship Canada. Of the
7,363 individual scholarships listed in the 2004
ScholarshipsCanada.com Entrance Awards directory there are:
- 17 that require some kind of agricultural involvement
- 262 that require athletic involvement
- 631 that require some sort of extracurricular activity
- 615 that require some sort of leadership role
- 1115 that require school or community service
- 80 that require the student to have a general disability
So you see, anybody can get a scholarship. It's a relatively
simple way of getting money
What Do You Need To Do?
To get a good scholarship, you should start early and focus even
while you're in high school. Here are a few things that will look
great on your application and can help you secure a good
scholarship:
- Study, and study hard. The better your grades
are, and the higher your academic standing is, the better chances
you have of getting a scholarship.
- Get involved. Join a sports team, get a role
in a school play, or become part of a choir. Anything that can show
your skills- time management, communication, teamwork, creativity,
etc. This will help you a lot when you apply, since showing off
your skills is quite important.
- Be a leader. Create your own school club, or
gather friends and organize a volunteer session in an animal
shelter. There are countless ways to show initiative and prove you
can be a leader of tomorrow, which will look great on your
application.
Whatever you do, make sure you don't spend your time sitting on
your couch and watching TV.
Make your time count by doing meaningful activities that can
help you improve your skills and demonstrate the fact that you can
make a difference in the world if you get a scholarship and a solid
education.
How Can You Go About Getting a Scholarship?
All you have to do is… apply!
These are the steps you should take to find and
apply for scholarships:
- Do your research. Use this LearnHub community and other
websites to look for scholarships that interest you.
- Analyze yourself. Figure out whether you fit
in with academic-based scholarships, leadership ones, or maybe
agriculture ones. Write down your strengths and what makes you
special and find out which scholarship fits you best.
- Work on your applications. Start early and
watch the deadlines. Be sure to fill in the entire applications.
Scholarship applications can require you to fill out information
forms, questions about yourself, essays, portfolios, and more.
There's a lot of work involved, but luckily there are also a lot of
online resources to help you. You can find some great tips
here.
- Send your applications in and hope for the
best. Good luck!
Some Sample Scholarships You Should Look At
The best scholarship we at LearnHub know of is… well, the
LearnHub Dream
Scholarship of course! You can get $2000 just by being
a part of LearnHub, and it'll also help you get into great schools.
Isn't that amazing?
Here are some examples of other well-known scholarships you might
have heard of:
Don't forget to check out our scholarship community for
more information!
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