<p>What scholarships can I get?</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.6
Class Rank: Top 7%
Grade: I am a sophmore. I'm taking 9 more APs.
Leadership: Public Relations Chairman of Key Club. Teacher's Assistant of SAT Chinese. Teacher's Assisant of AP Chinese. Teacher's Assistant of Pre-K Chinese. Youth Leader of Church.
Clubs: Key Club, French Club member. Environmental Club member. Human Rights & Justice Club member. Environmental Club member. Youth & Government. ...NHS next year (Junior year)
Awards: Awarded in chinese & piano
Volunteer: Yes, I do a lot.
SATs: 2000+</p>
<p>PLEASE help. I'll really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Oh please…the title of your thread implies that your accomplishments are rather ordinary. You have great SAT scores and a great GPA. Search schools for scholarships for students with those kinds of stats. If you are looking for merit aid, you will want to apply to schools where YOUR stats are at the tippy top of the accepted student pool.</p>
<p>Thank you thumper1 for the compliments, and I’m sorry for the title, I really do view myself as a regular student. Does anyone else have advice? Thank you so much.</p>
<p>There are three main kinds of scholarships available. </p>
<p>First are the national scholarships, ones like Coca Cola Scholars or Gates Millenium Scholarships, for example. These are often big money scholarships, but very difficult to win since you are competing with people from all over the US. You would apply for these in your senior year.</p>
<p>Second are local scholarships given by local businesses and groups, ones like the local Kiwanis group or a local service organization. These often have special requirements–you have to be 1/8 Japanese or have financial need or audition with your musical instrument or your parent has to work for a certain company or you have to write an essay about the wonders of renewable energy. These usually aren’t very much money and they are one shot deals-not renewable. You apply for these when you are a senior. Your counseling department at high school is where you would find out about these scholarships.</p>
<p>The third place to get scholarships is from the college you are going to attend. If you are in a group that the college wants to attract to their school, and this school is one that gives merit scholarships, then you can get significant $$ from them. These scholarships are often multi-year or renewable under certain circumstances. This is the easiest way to get scholarships that really can make a dent into the cost of college attendance. BUT you have to be in the tip top group that the college wants to recruit, whether academically or talent-wise. You may have to fill out a special application or the $$ can be awarded to you as part of your financial package. Again, this will happen when you are a senior.</p>
<p>As a sophomore, you can probably win some $$ entering contests that require an essay. But most of the scholarship push will come when you are a senior.</p>
<p>So what can you do now?</p>
<p>I would figure out who at your school handles scholarships. At our local high school, the college and career center collects all information about scholarships and prints out a monthly scholarship bulletin. Next year when you are a junior, you should look at those scholarship bulletins, get an idea what people are looking for in applicants and see which scholarships you can apply to as a junior and which ones to be sure to apply to when you are a senior.</p>
<p>This post is getting a little long, so I’ll put the other hint down in the next post.</p>
<p>One avenue that you can pursue is to try to become a National Merit Semi-finalist. This requires getting a high score on the PSAT that you will take as a junior in October. Every state has a cut off, and if you score above that cutoff, you’re a semi-finalist! There are schools that give gobs of advantages to these NM semi-finalist (that go on to become finalists, which is not difficult). The tip top schools don’t give any scholarships to NM finalists. But schools farther down the food chain can give full rides. And all you have to do is do very well on an SAT like test.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!
I really want a KEY CLUB scholarship…I’m an active member as well as a leader on the executive board…do you know anything about a key club scholarship?</p>
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<p>Have you already taken the SATs as a sophomore with these scores…or are these estimates?</p>
<p>I have already taken the SATs and got 2010. The reason why I put 2000+ is because I am planning on taking the SATs again and again until I get at least 2100. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>