I’m primary looking for prestigious scholarships and good ft scholarships to apply for a junior planning on applying for very competitive schools. Does anyone know of any I should look out? Personally, I’m looking for status/fit over monetary value. Thanks and I appreciate the help!
Checking for clarity. You are looking for a scholarship that is prestigious but you don’t care about the monetary value?
Please explain.
@CourtneyThurston might have some suggestions for you.
But I’ll give mine…I think you need to drop the need for prestige if you need scholarships.
It’s not necessarily about the money it’s about putting it on my college resume. Awards or scholarships. I welcome any help paying though!
I just didn’t want people to only comment really big ones.
Yeah you’re coming at this from totally the wrong perspective.
And, luckily, the universe will save you from yourself because there aren’t really scholarships for kids younger than HS seniors.
Also, as a side note, when I was a senior I won a number of the country’s top scholarships. I sent my semfinalist/finalist/awardee status to many colleges, as did everyone else. Exactly 0 colleges cared.
Colleges will care about the same stats that the scholarship itself will care about – not the fact that you won the scholarship.
Thank you. That’s helpful.
My D won a Carson Scholarship as a sophomore, it was $1,000 and based on academics and volunteerism.
I’d suggest you focus on what you are doing to explore areas of interest, volunteering, working, school extracurriculars and the like. Don’t worry about prestige, worry about you - what you put into something, not what you hope to get out of it (i.e. prestige). You are young and there are so many areas out there to explore - go - do - learn 
Maybe along the way you’ll get some material you can use for a powerful essay, hopefully that will spring from your heart and experiences. Good luck!
thank you for the help.
I don’t know if they still have Nordstrom scholarship, but it was a good one for my DD : $10,000 plus free Mac Air.
Wow cool! I’ll check it out
Please…it’s not the scholarship itself that will gain you additional college application recognition…it’s the accomplishments you did to GET that scholarship that should be important to you (whether younget thr miney…or not).
Thank you for your help.
Nordstrom no longer exists IIRC.
Carson/Hamilton require significant financial need IIRC and may be already closed. Coolidge is merit though, but only like 2 kids get chosen (or did, previously, I think).
I am applying to coolidge. last year three were chosen and that was its first year. I have a deep respect for President Coolidge and for the Head of the Coolidge foundation so I hope that shows in my application. the only thing that will be bad about my application will be my poor PSAT score hopefully my GPA, which is super high and my AP test scores discount that though. Do you have any advice about increasing my chances or what they are looking for?I can send you privately the resume I am submitting to them if you want. I think I have a good chance considering the large amount of charity work I do, my leadership positions, my involvement in debate, and my involvement within politics.
@CourtneyThurston Carson Scholarship did not have a need component at all or my daughter would not have won it. It was based entirely on volunteerism and grades. Applications were due 1/6/17,so that has passed for this year.
http://carsonscholars.org/scholarships/prospective-scholars/
What do you excel at? If you aren’t concerned about the money, you could be targeting contests and awards in an area you think you might be highly competitive at. There’s a competition for everything and anything it seems.
I am a very good writer and am highly interested and involved in politics. @SuburbMom
For writing, look to enter next year’s Scholastic Art & Writing contest. It’s too late for this year, but it’s one of the better known writing competitions. Are you doing any public speaking or involved in MUN? Make it a point to try to win awards when you are at an event with those? Since you consider yourself to be a good writer, you should look to enter scholarships that require written papers and/or speeches. There are a ton of these, and now would be a good time to research them to see what the requirements and deadlines are so that you don’t miss any that come up early in the school year.