<p>Could anyone explain to me about this organization? I went to their website, but it didnt tell me anything for students matter. Do we recieve some sort of grant or scholarship? At my school, they told me to sign up at the end of every semester and renew the membership by paying $5, which i did since freshmen. (senior now) Now I havent recieve any word from the advisor about this for seniors. All I know, which they told me that its good on your college apps/ and scholarship entry or something.</p>
<p>At my school it makes you eligible for a lot of school scholarships.</p>
<p>Our local h.s. participates in CSF, and I feel like it is a scam. You must pay $3.00 each semester to become a member if you meet the GPA requirements, but as far as I can tell (and our GCs don't even seem to know much about it), it does next to nothing for you except allow you to list it on your apps, and wear a tassel at graduation.</p>
<p>Thats what i kinda felt about that...just wearing a tassel and SHOWING OFF your in CSF</p>
<p>lol CSF at our school is a joke. $2 per app, no meetings after the informational meeting.</p>
<p>Sure seems to vary by school. At DD's school there are meetings, community service, scholarship opportunities. And all the stuff for graduation tassels, etc.</p>
<p>Mom2M or Hollylove,
Can you elaborate on the "scholarship opportunities" offered by CSF? The website mentions only one, which is awarded to 50 students out of over 1,000 chapters of CSF.</p>
<p>Bay - mine are school specific. For instance, I'm in AVID and the program gives a scholarship to a graduating senior every year, but they have to be in CSF. There are a couple others along the same lines.</p>
<p>hm. At my school, the CSF club is quite different. I am one of the board members, and every member has to pledge at least 10 hours of unpaid tutoring as a community service requirement. We also have booths and have volunteer opportunities. It kinda stinks that other schools are treating it as a joke...</p>
<p>Wow, $2-3? We pay $10 and have a 3 hour required tutoring.</p>
<p>for us, we just pay membership and were in. Kinda feel special, since its the only organization held in my school</p>
<p>Most of the scholarships are local, CSF is a requirement because the organizations know that here it requires both community service and scholarship.</p>
<p>we don't have a community service requirement, just a (fairly low) academic requirement.</p>
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<p>At my school, the fee is $5 per semester. Besides the tassels and the brag rights for applications, we have a community service and academic requirements, which, unfortunately, are no enforced.
CSF does community service around the school, like we have a tutoring program, and we clean up at basketball games. Also, we fundraise.
Scholarships are given to seniors, but not to all of them. The advisor basically gets to pick who she wants to give money to</p>