Can you please recommend some scholarships I should apply for? thanks!
About me:
I am currently a Junior and my dream school is Stanford
the school I go (international school bellevue) to ranks 2nd in the state of washington and 41st in the entire countr
GPA (UW): 3.9
GPA (W): 4.3
There is no ranking system at our school
Extra curricular:
Hospital volunteer for 1 year (started junior year, plan on doing senior year as well) 10 hours a week, almost every week
intern for a highly commendable dentist (president of Washington Dental association) during the summer and still am
volunteered at a dental clinic starting 10th grade summer and am still a volunteer (im a junior) 4 hours a week every week
I tutored underprivileged children in my community
I volunteer at the YMCA
I also volunteer at a Blood Bank
I am in a robotics team and am mechanical head and ended up getting a varsity letter
I help mentor a middle school robotics team
I did WANIC (a medical summer program) 9th grade summer
I did a dental program at UW during 10th grade summer
I am going to attend the summer medical program at uc Berkeley
I helped coordinate malaria vaccines to India.
I also adopted a family in India and will continue to financially support them through fundraising
I organize an event every 2-3 months in which we make food for the homeless and deliver it to them personally
I am an accountant for my dad’s businesses
I am currently in the process of building a homeless shelter in seattle
The dentist I interned for gave free dental cleaning to the public (only for a day)
I am in Relay for Life
A Key Club member
I might found a club next year revolved around fundrasing money for ngos
I am in national honor society, french honor society, and science honor society
I currently have around 300 hours of community service and plan to acquire more
AP classes:
AP World History, AP Lang, AP French Lang, AP Chemistry, AP Cal, AP US Politcal History
I plan on taking AP computer science, AP GOV, AP BIO, and AP LIT next year as senior year.
Exams
ACT: 35
Personal Circumstances:
I am the first one out of my family to go to college and am a Sikh Indian who as been racially targeted/persecuted my whole life.
Yes, very hard imo unless you’re only targeting local scholarships.
For high incomes, applying to the full suite of big national competitions is probably going to be a waste of time, as the vast majority have a need component. Coca-Cola is the only one I know of that doesn’t consider need at all.
I would apply to Coke, your round of local scholarships, and target merit scholarships at schools where your stats are in the 75 percentile or above, in addition to whatever reach/dream schools you’re considering. That should set you up well.
What are your parents saying about how much they’ll pay for college each year?
If they say that they will pay $70k for you to attend Stanford or another private, then super. If they won’t pay anything close to that amount then you need a list of schools that will give you large merit.
I highly doubt that the few entities that give large private scholarships will give one to a high income child. I think Coca Cola is only one that doesn’t consider income, and it is extremely hard to win.
How did you do on the PSAT? ARe you a likely NMF?
Are you a pre-Dental student?
You’ve been racially targeted in Washington or elsewhere?
And you say your dad is an entrepreneur which implies he owns a business or is self employed. Is that correct?
If your family income is really $400,000 a year, most of the big scholarships will also be unavailable to you. There are only a couple that do NOT take financial need into consideration.
Are your parents saying they will pay NOTHING towards your college costs?
The best scholarships come from the colleges to which you are accepted. If your parents REALLY don’t plan to pay anything for you to attend college, you need to start looking for schools where you would get merit aid.
University of Washington should be on your list. It’s a large and diverse university. It’s your instate public.
What will your parents pay for you to attend college each year. With a $400,000 income, you won’t qualify for need based aid at ANY college. Your family contribution would likely come up as over $100,000…per year.
$400,000 annual income is 8 times the national family average in this country.
Most colleges aren't going to care about the ranking of your high school. Plenty of excellent prep school applicants are at Stanford, and the other top 20 colleges.
You have great stats. TBH...your activity list is great...but really...it more looks like a laundry list of a lot of things. And...no arts? And no sports? None? Over four years in HS?
@thumper1 My parents have already started saving up for college and plan to pay for college and yes he is self-employed. I don’t need scholorships for the financial aid. I was looking to get scholarships to put them on my app, because at the moment I am lacking in awards/scholarships and yes UW is on my list so are ucla, uc berkeley, and usc. @mom2collegekids he is a franchisee who owns multiple stores
VERY few kids know that they’ve won scholarships during fall of senior year to put on an app. Scholarship announcements are usually AFTER college applications have been sent in.
I can’t imagine any awards that you’d likely get BEFORE the UC apps or Stanford app would be submitted.
You don’t need scholarships on you college application. Scholarships are awarded to help pay for college.
I would suggest that you look carefully at your activity list…there isn’t THAT much room on the applications for all those different activities anyway.
Have you considered 4H? They have awards/scholarships in various categories many that do not involve animals (photography, baking, wielding…)
NSLI-Y is scholarship award you could list on an application if you have an interest in learning in certain languages, I believe applications are due in Oct but not sure if they would be announced in time to put it on an application in the Fall.
@thumper1 I do robotics as a full-time EC and it counts as a “sport” too. Considering how busy I am I don’t really have time for sports. Well I play the violin at school but not so much at home
I seriously doubt any college will consider robotics a sport. It’s an EC, but it’s clearly not a sport, even if your HS may consider it one. My kids’ high school considers debate a “sport” and gives letters for it, but no college would consider it a sport.