<p>Our S has several nice, non-renewable scholarships for freshman year. Where should we look to find scholarship programs for current undergrads? Is there a spot here on CC that I should check?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help you can give!</p>
<p>Mafool, within his college is a good place to start. There may be departmental awards, athletic money, etc. - probably they're performance based but if his grades are very good he may be able to apply for some in second semester.</p>
<p>Most college departments have endowed scholarships which are reserved for current students. Look at the college catalogue and/or call finaid for a list of availabe scholarships. </p>
<p>Posters here will correctly advise you that if your student is getting need base aid it will not make any appreciable difference because it should increase accordingly if one yr scholarships and that is probably true. But having earned recognition through a departmental scholarship is a nice thing for prospective employeers and grad school adcoms to see.</p>
<p>Whoops-I tried to post this already...I wonder if it ended up in some other thread?</p>
<p>Any way, the point about financial aid is well taken. Scholarships don't change the EFC, but his current outside scholarships go to reduce the self-help portion of his aid: loans and work/study, which is nice.</p>
<p>I don't think his school has the internal, departmental schoarships you mention (though the school he decided against did--big time!).</p>
<p>Sometimes these things aren't well-publicized, though I'm not sure if it's intentional or not. My D was invited to apply for two this summer; she was approached directly by professors. Well - actually - the entire CLASS was approached by the professor, in each case. But only a handful of students in each so not many people competing for it, and fewer still probably filled out the paperwork - perhaps your son could inquire of the department head or professors in his major? </p>
<p>With other funds, sophomore year, she has been approached by a coach, and by a professor, and they said "we have some unspent funds", so she got that money.</p>
<p>In all the above cases, nothing was ever listed on the college's website or publicized anywhere (that I know of).</p>
<p>Most undergrad scholarships are for students entering freshman year and for students entering their senior year in college. While other scholarships exist, they are much rarer. The best place to look would be at your student's college.</p>
<p>There are some undergrad scholarships available, but many of them are ULTRA competitive merit based, and receiving one is considered a great honor. A few of these so called national scholarships are the Truman, Goldwater and Udall. These you can't even apply for, the student must be nominated by the U.</p>
<p>You can get an idea by looking at some U websites and browsing around a bit:
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/iefp/%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/iefp/</a>
<a href="https://frogs.uchicago.edu/fellowships/search_results.cfm%5B/url%5D">https://frogs.uchicago.edu/fellowships/search_results.cfm</a></p>
<p>As others have pointed out, and you will see on the websites above, many of the scholarships are local to that school, from endowed funds usually.</p>
<p>There are also some very interesting new ones, such as theDepartment of Homeland Security Undergraduate Scholarship. Find it on the Chicago link. But it has a catch...</p>
<p>Late,</p>
<p>What scholarships was your D told about?</p>
<p>Let's see - this past summer, it was an academic scholarship for the Art History department, and something from one of the honor societies. She didn't complete the paperwork for the first (ugh), and was not selected for the second. </p>
<p>Sophomore year, she got a small internal scholarship from the Biology deparment, and then the athletic department picked up everything not already covered from junior year forward. Freshman year started out with me owing about $8K of about $40K, after all scholarships. D has been collecting refund checks since junior year - I haven't had to pay anything since, although, it looks like for the second semester of this year (her fifth and final), I will have to pay maybe $4K, since she has maxed out the permissible number of credit hours under some of the scholarship provisions. (Two degrees - B.S. Biochem, B.A. Art History.)</p>
<p>Edit: I should have said I haven't had to pay for anything during the regular school year. Summer sessions are not covered by any of her scholarships, or by the athletic department - so - I do have to pay those, but, the cost per credit hour is lower, or at least that's what she tells me. I suspect interim sessions aren't covered either, but, thankfully she hasn't needed or wanted to enroll for any interim classes.</p>
<p>There's the nationally known Goldwater scholarship. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship was created to award students with outstanding potential in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Students interested in medicine are eligible only if they intend to have a research career. The scholarship pays up to $7,500 a year for the junior and senior years (if won as a junior, the scholarship covers only the senior year). Usually 300 scholarships are awarded a year. </p>
<p>Eligibility :</p>
<p>Be a full-time, matriculated sophomore or junior majoring in the natural sciences, engineering, or mathematics
Have a B average, top 25% of class
Be a U. S. citizen, resident alien, or U.S. national </p>
<p>For more info, go to: <a href="http://www.act.org/goldwater/%5B/url%5D">http://www.act.org/goldwater/</a></p>