<p>Hello, </p>
<p>I am a college student and I am going to school 3/4 full-time right now and taking 9 credit hours. I didn't know how many scholarship opportunities were available to me until I went to the home page and saw this thing called the "Sally Mae" college scholarship search or whatever. Anyway, according to that, I am eligible for a boat-load of scholarships that I didn't even know about. </p>
<p>The problem is that before when I searched for scholarships, it said that you have to go full-time in order to get the scholarships. However, for all the scholarships that I have looked at in the Sally Mae scholarship search, none of them specified whether or not you have to go full-time to get the scholarship. </p>
<p>Are there many scholarships out there that will let you go to school slightly below full-time? I ask this because the way that my college schedule works, I'm not really sure if I'm going to be able to go full-time. After all, a lot of these classes in my major (which is information science) tend to all have prerequisites to taking the next class. For instance, I can't take comp structures until I take business calc, I can't take Web Access and System Design until I take Comp Structures and intro to visual and procedural programming, and I can't take Data Structures until I take intro to object oriented programming and comp structures.</p>
<p>It's not only that, but I'm absolutely petrified to take both comp structures and data structures in just one summer semester where they will both only be 8 week classes. I'm afraid that if I do that, I'm setting myself up for failure. So can you get scholarships if you take less than full-time classes?</p>
<p>Also, how do scholarships even work? I mean, technically the Pell Grant that I receive and the hardship grant that I receive right now pay for all my schooling in full (except they do not pay for my summer semester though, I have to pay for that and take out loans for it). I’m just looking to get scholarships that will help me to pay for living expenses, so that I can take more classes and not have to work. It’s not that I don’t want to work, it’s just that I could be finishing college a lot faster and be going into a lot less loan debt if I was able to afford to take more classes.</p>
<p>It will depend on the terms of the individual scholarships. Yes, many of them do have full time conditions as well as gpa conditions and maybe even other conditions.</p>
<p>There ae loads of scholarships out there, but getting substantial ones are not easy. My one son with near perfect test scores applied to a lot of them and ended up getting only one, it was only a small one time award. It was wonderful to get and made the apps for money worthwhile to him, but it was not the windfall we were hoping for.</p>
<p>Still apply for all you have time for getting but you might want to sort some of them by categories. once you get them, you can rearrange fin anid perhaps and have some summer covered. Maybe apply PELL to the summer or do other mix and match to get the maximum punch out of what you get. But the trick is to get them.</p>
<p>So how it works is that you get the scholarship award and can apply it to any semester that you want? In other words, if I wanted to use it for the summer classes, then I could? After all that would help the most because they cut the summer Pell.</p>
The OP has probably figured out the answer since this post is over a year old. Closing.