NY Times article on hard-to-fill scholarships

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<p>I posted this in the Financial Aid & Scholarships forum, but I figured that parents would enjoy reading the article too. I always thought that this type of scholarship was apocryphal.</p>

<p>What's in a Name? Some Obscure Scholarships Often Go Begging</p>

<p>Every year, millions in scholarships and financial aid are awarded at more than 4,200 colleges and universities. But other scholarships, amounting to perhaps several million dollars more, are tied up in endowments that have rules so obscure and restrictive that they are rarely tapped - even as the cost of higher education soars.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/n...cholarship.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/n...cholarship.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>If you Google
"What's in a Name? Some Obscure Scholarships Often Go Begging"
you will get the link to the article</p>

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<p>I don't know why the link isn't working! Here it is again. It seems to be working, at least for now.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/nyregion/03scholarship.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/nyregion/03scholarship.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>That story was run locally because the Leavenworth scholarship apparently works at U. of Michigan. However, the financial aid director said they have no record of it.</p>

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<p>interesting, anyone got a list of these obscure scholarships?</p>