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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:34 pm
I'm currently looking at a ton of scholarships. Why? Because my parents aren't paying for college. Will not, and cannot. Though they buy boats and motorcycles. rolleyes So, this is my Scholarships thread, to discuss scholarships, where to find some, get help working on scholarships, college tuition, things like that. I'll probably be getting help on the essays in here once I decide on a topic (maybe I'll get you guys to help me find a topic...) A helpful website for scholarship searching is
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:36 am
I s'pose it's easiest to ask first, how much do your parents make? My mom makes very, very little money, so the school basically threw cash at me. Depending on what school you want to go to, simply having good grades and being poor can get you an almost-free ride.
Outside of that, I used FastWeb. Mein gott, it's a useful website. Absolutely free; you just put in some personal info and it'll shoot you back with lit. dozens of possible scholarships. And it'll keep updating them as new ones come in.
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:51 pm
Let's see, my mom makes minimum wage (hairstylist), but my dad works at Dell, so he makes pretty good money. However, our expenses are way too much for what we make. And we just barely make it into the next tax bracket, which basically means my mom's job pays for the taxes that we get from the combined income (almost just makes more sense for my mom to quit her job).
Since we're in that tax bracket, we aren't poor, apparently. My parents don't make enough to pay for college or private schools (found out they almost went bankrupt from my middle school), but they make too much for me to get financial aid.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:43 am
That's pretty doubtful. Depending on where you go, even higher-income families will get financial aid. It's all based around taxes; which means that when you apply for financial aid, they'll look at both gross and net income, before- and after-taxes, and see how high your expenses are.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:44 pm
Hmm... possibly.
When I turn 18, I'm making sure I am no longer considered a "dependent" so I can get financial aid. If you are still a dependent, your income will be seen as yours + you parents' income, which doesn't work because at college, you no longer get to mooch off of them (for the most part). Sure, they don't get as many tax benefits, but I'm gonna be a starving college kid- and then a starving artist. The least I can do is get financial aid.
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:48 pm
Starving artist? I take it you wanna go for an art degree? (Have I asked you where you're applying to college?)
If your parents are making under $40,000, you can get into most Ivy league schools on a free ride. I'm sure other schools could make similar deals, and like I said, many schools offer financial aid as it is.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:29 pm
Well, I wanna go in for lots of stuff. Art, writing, and probably architecture. I've gotta find out if it's "for me" or not. But hey, I had fun with the physics building projects, so you never know.
As for what college I'd like to go to, um.... I don't know. I'm looking into UT (since it has good art and architecture and it's really close) but apparently I wouldn't be able to take art and architecture classes at the same time if I went there. (I was all, "well that's poopy!" -pouty face-). I'm also gonna look at Rice and Texas A&M and some out-of-state colleges, but really, I need to do some looking-in and college visits.
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:15 pm
Well, to do that stuff you really need to go to a liberal arts school. I don't really know much about the colleges in Tenessee, but if they're anything like the ones I'm familiar with, there's a big distinction between art schools and tech schools. The biggest advantage to a liberal arts school is that they'll offer lots and lots of degrees, and most people end up switching majors several times before settling (I know I did - aerospace engineering to ecological biology to environmental science to physics to math).
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:22 pm
yeah, I'm looking for schools that have good architecture, art, design, and theater and film departments. Quite a bit of things I want there. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:29 am
Yeah, that is, but you shouldn't expect less out of an institution you plan on giving $120,000 to. But any large liberal arts school should have all of those; you'd be hard-pressed to find a small one offering that, though.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:34 pm
Yeah, I guess that's my problem. I really don't want to go to a huge university, but it looks like I'll have to.
I'm gonna look at Rice University sometime soon. Another good college in Texas.
I got angry at UT, because I wouldn't be able to take art classes and architecture classes in the same semester. Plus, their buildings are on opposite sides of the campus.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:24 am
Ouch...I know the building problem. But why wouldn't they let you take art and architecture at the same time?
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:56 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Ouch...I know the building problem. But why wouldn't they let you take art and architecture at the same time? Apparently, the studio classes for Architecture are at the same time as the studio classes for Art... I'm not sure if I buy that, since I thought there would be more of a choice for the time slot for classes.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:12 pm
All right, so here's my first official start on scholarships. My first scholarship is an essay scholarship. It's called the First Freedom Student Competition. (website is ) The Essay Topic is: Is the constitutional protection of religious freedom as important today as it was in the past? To which I answer: HELL YES. There's a bit more, where they give you the hypothetical situation of a bill in congress that weakens constitutional protection for religious freedom, and you are invited by the senate to prepare this essay to read at a congressional hearing. The points I have decided to talk about so far are: >Discrimination still goes on today, and always will go on (gonna get LOTS of examples for this) >There is much more religious diversity, and therefore, more minorities that need protection >Weakening protection practically invites people to oppress others based on religious beliefs >The people must always be protected in as many ways possible, weakening this protection means the government is consciously not doing its job >If there are few problems with religious freedom, the system is working, why try to ruin it? Perhaps I should argue that Congress SHOULD change the ammendment... and add MORE protection. Hmm.... This scholarship is also very a**l about research. Basically, free websites such as Wikipedia are not acceptable, and they prefer books, news magazines, newspapers, government documents or publications, or academic journals. There should also be sources that give hearing to more than one side of a discusion. I probably would've done that anyway, just to disprove them. blaugh So, if anyone can help me by suggesting other points, or resources, or hey, even arguing against me, that would be greatly appreciated!
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:16 am
Sure, I'd play Devil's advocate on this point. But first, a few notes about the essay itself.
I applied for (and got) the same scholarship 2 years ago, albeit under a different topic. You have to ask yourself: are you a good writer? It's not enough to have good ideas, like it is in Novos. You have to striate them with logic, present them in an increasingly complex and interdependent pattern, yet still remain cohesive and focused. I think one of the *best* things you can do for this argument is consider the pros of the other side - as well as the motives and possible outcomes - while still maintaining your own position. By adding in these bits of complication, you show not only that you understand your opponent (and thus all sides of the issue) but have painstakingly researched the issue thoroughly to come to your own conclusion, which disintegrates the opponents' arguments.
Basically, I want to hear you argue for the other side before you argue your own point. It won't turn out that way in the essay, for sure, but it's a great writing excercise.
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