I want to know how to get scholarships and what are available to me.
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The best scholarships come directly from the schools. If you give us more information such as your GPA and test scores we can help you.
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How much can your parents pay each year for 4 years?
My current GPA is 4.0 I don’t have my test scores yet, I’m a freshman. I would like to know how scholarships are obtained
You apply for outside scholarships directly, scholarships from colleges may or may not require a separate application form you need to check with each college you apply to. Most scholarships are applied for in your senior year, you should talk to your guidance counselor to get more information. If you are asking about how to find outside scholarships to apply for, you might try a Google search.
Study for your PSAT to make National Merit.
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Do lots of community service, take on leadership positions, continue to make good grades.
As a freshman, your main goal right now is to do the very best you can in terms of grades. You can and should take the PSAT at the beginning of your JUNIOR year…so you have a little time to get ready for that one.
As noted by others, the best scholarships come direct,y from the colleges to which you are accepted…but really…you don’t have any SAT or ACT scores, and really no HS GPA (you aren’t even done with one semester of HS).
If your school allows it, see if you can take the PSAT next year. It won’t count for scholarships until junior year but it’s good practice.
If by scholarships you mean “free money for college” there are two general types:
Need-based money is given based on your family’s assets and income. You can use the college board EFC estimator to see how much need you “demonstrate.” Not all colleges meet full need, and colleges that do meet full need will determine your need based on their own formulas which may be higher or lower than the EFC estimator, but this will at least give you a general range for your EFC.
Merit-based money is given for stats, essays, extra curriculars, etc. The most common ones are given by the colleges themselves to students they want to recruit away from other schools. The best way to get those is to be near the top of the applicant pool, and to apply to the schools that give lots of it. This changes from year to year, but websites like collegedata.com can help you figure out what percentage of kids at a college are getting merit awards and the typical amount.
Finally, if by scholarships you mean “free ride” - something that covers tuition and room and board: There are only a few of these out there. You can start hunting for those on the lists in post #1.
Each college will have a net price calculator (NPC). Run the NPC to see what need based aid you will get, and in many cases, your merit aid for your stats as well.
To the OP…you are a HS freshman. Just keep in mind…the net price calculators are currently set using college formulas for students beginning college in fall 2017. You won’t be there for a couple of years after that. The college need based formulas could change, and very likely so will your family finances.
So…anything you do now…would just be to give you an idea…not really even a good estimate. Just a ballpark.
In addition, criteria for merit awards change as well. For example, it is highly likely Temple University will be adjusting its guaranteed merit awards because this year, the school is in the hole because too many students acceoted those awards.
Actually, most of the calculators are set for the students who just entered school this fall. The schools don’t even know their tuition or budgets for 2017 yet.
I do think OP is doing the right thing as a freshman in high school. Find out about scholarships. Find out what is required. You don’t want to be a senior and discover you would have been eligible for a scholarship if only you’d taken another year of foreign language or you need 200 hours of community service to apply -by next Wednesday! Start a notebook with all your community service hours, your awards, your clubs and sports. Keep the programs from musical or theater shows you perform in. Keep the names and contact information for advisers and teachers you may need to contact. You’ll save yourself a lot of time when it is time to do applications for scholarships and colleges
You might start looking at the local scholarships in your area. Are there civic or private groups that give out small awards? There were a lot in our area that gave them out for art work, being in a military family, writing an essay about Memorial Day, cleaning up the beach. We had some boys at our school get $500 (each I think) for doing a safety video and they did one about pointing lasers at airplanes. It was awful, but no one else submitted a video so they won. Usually the counselors at the high schools have information, there might be a webpage for the area high schools. We even had a small column in the newspaper.
If you have your eyes on a certain college, look at their FA page and see if there are special scholarships from alums, from departments, and what those require.
@WanderLing Are you a U.S. citizen?
If you are a freshman, then you likely started high school about 6 weeks ago so how can you have a 4.0 GPA if the first semester doesn’t end for 2-3 more months?
The NPCs are at to be used with the current applicants…who are the ones starting in fall 2017. No, that budget hasn’t been set…yet…but that is no different than in the past.
Even so…this OP is a HS freshman…so the info is way premature for her.
Scholarships are obtained by meeting financial need requirements (need-based grant aid is sometimes considered “scholarships”) or by meeting merit qualifications. There is a load of information on this website about both avenues for getting money for college. Google is your friend!
Scholarships come from the colleges. Excellent grades, course rigor*, and test scores are the primary factors.
Scholarships can be given because your family 's I come is below a certain threshold - 40k, 75k, more rarely 125k or 180k at super elite colleges. The difficulty is getting in. Only 80-90 colleges follow this model out of 3,700.
Other colleges offer scholarships based on your test scores or academics in general.
So, what you needed to do is try to do as well as you can in school.
@Madison85 I calculated my GPA with the current letter grades I had. It totaled out to a 4.0 