Scholarship Detector

Hello again! I promised to talk closely this is my bear post and so here it is!\n\nLooking and befooling for experiences is one of the of import preparation activities that has me re all toldy mobile! Filling emerge(a) FAFSA and formulation my visit dates to the campus of my dreams be the chief(prenominal) things that I keep up been cogitate on for the New Year. I confine too gotten the probability to be an intern in a local aliveness studio, which gives me a small compensation that I am sparing up for university.\n\nI would take there are ii main things you need to be aware of with scholarships: how to go around ascertaining the ones you are qualified for and how to organise the various scholarships. When I first started spirit for scholarships I went scholarship happy and wrote all the scholarship names follow up in a detailed notebook or on gety notes on my computer. I had to read by the unscathed list to figure out when the scholarships were due and then had to solemnize on revisiting sites for the hirements. Recently though I found an amazing thing! A experience Organiser Worksheet. You cigaret buoy descry various ones online or you can make your own found on how the others are structured. They are the crush- at a contemplate you can see when the scholarships are due, how much $$ they offer, notes on what you wear to do to apply and website and cope with info. It has really helped me thats for authorized. If you want, you can cede a planner for all(prenominal) calendar month. I just have mine in a general list. However, I have colour coded the months so January scholarships are highlighted in blue and so forth\n\nNow thats how to organise them, moreover one of my intitial problems was ferret outing the scholarships and grants in the first place! Heres about bullet points to help :) (Now I am planning to moot in America as I said in earlier posts so this mogul be more usable for those who want to go t o the U.S merely wantfully if you dont thi! s get out unchanging help you.)\n\nScholarship ascertain for sites: CollegeBoard, SALT, Niche Scholarships and, of course, International savant which I found more helpful than others when it comes to finding a scholarship that doesnt require you to be an American citizen. Make sure and BE SPECIFIC when weft out the information for these sites, slight info= less relevance. Do It.com is also another upright one.\n peeping the Internet yourself: When looking for scholarships without aid of a site, look for specific categories that apply to you. When I say that I imagine categories like these: if you are a specific ethnic convocation (asian,hispanic,african, etc) having diversity on campus is a plus for Universities image so take advantage of these scholarships, if you are female (sorry, no offense guys) especially if you are a female pursuing an IT or Engineering degree, if you know what your study is- some scholarships are inclined based on a course of study, if you are a missionary kid, a tiddler whose parents worked for the U.S Military. All these categories help speciate your search so you system have to wade through hundreds of scholarships and only find 15 that you are eligible for.\nSearching through the School Website: If your high civilize gives scholarships to students who want to study abroad- go for it. However, in my country scholarships from the highschools are usually limited to the highest achieving students. However, I found that searching the University I plan on pass to for scholarships really helped. Most Universities shove along about being inexpensive based on their grants and pecuniary aid. It is almost a event that you would at least find scholarships for doing well on your SATs.. there should also be a financial aid counsel or someone who kit and boodle in the school who can walk you through stipendiary for it. Now the only problem is that this option might require you to have filled out FAFSA which is limited .\nOkay, so I hope that was helpful. there might be ! more ways to find scholarships, but these are the ones Im utilize so far and I have quite a few to apply for. unrivalled more thing about scholarships, always put your best effort forward, know that thousands others will be applying for the same scholarship so you are not guaranteed to win. Make sure and apply to as many as possible. If you can get a full scholarship from the school GO FOR IT! Stay international from loans as much as possible unless you have a plan for paying it buns and KNOW you can stick to it.\n\n(The thing about Trinidad)\n\nI think I forgot to keep open this in my last blog- I wanted to share a bit of my culture in each post. February is Carnival month in Trinidad and I cognise to watch the Ole Mass. In Trinidad we come up up as variant ethnic groups that made our history. There are Red Indians, Chinese Dragons, Dame Lorraines (girls dressed up in old forge dresses with added padding at the bunghole to imitate how the French women use to dress when th e french colonize our country) and many other characters. My favorite are the moko jumbies. They can also be called dancing booze (as jumbie means spirit or ghost).