<p>I live in South Texas (more specifically, the Rio Grande Valley), and need help finding some local scholarships. So far, I've only applied to national ones on Fastweb, but I would like to apply to some "Safety" scholarships and not just "Reach" ones. I am Hispanic so I do qualify for hispanic scholarships (so far I started applying to HCF).</p>
<p>Any ideas on how to find good local scholarships, or if any of you know of any particular good ones? I just saw a thread that suggested a local library, so I'm going to check there when they come back from Christmas break. School doesn't have a scholarship website, and Counseling Dept. gets its scholarship listings from Fastweb... :(</p>
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<li><p>First, go to your school's college counseling office and visit their website. If they don't have anything, then,</p></li>
<li><p>Go to the websites of other school's college couseling office. For example, if you live in Texas, to find the websites of other schools college couseling offices, then do this: type in site:.k12.tx.us into a google search engine</p></li>
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<li><p>Next, go to your parent's workplace and ask them if they can find out whether their corporation offer scholarships for the children of employees. Corporate scholarships are the best scholarships ever because not only are corporations rich and, thus, willing to dole out lots of money. But they're also great because they're not very competitive--usually not that many people apply.</p></li>
<li><p>Then, visit your local church--do they offer scholarships</p></li>
<li><p>Then, try to find out whether your local community foundation has scholarships. For instance, if you live in Nashville, then find out whether the Nashville community foundation offers scholarships.</p></li>
<li><p>And last but not least, what kind of clubs are you involved. Are you in NHS--they have scholarships. Are you a girl scouts--Do you know that there's a scholarship for Girl Scouts--<a href="http://www.cjsfoundation.org/">http://www.cjsfoundation.org/</a></p></li>
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<p>I might add that you should follow number 2 regardless of whether your school has a college and career website. The wider you cast your net the better.</p>