Do schools ever offer any travel expenses for attending a scholarship competition? My daughter has been invited to compete for a Capital University scholarship for multicultural students, but our financial situation is such that a round trip of 1500 miles would be a serious hardship. And yet we really need her to take this chance, however small, at winning one of these full tuition scholarships.
You can certainly ask
Some do. It doesn’t hurt to ask if they have any travel allowance.
Some also will allow a skype interview or some other method. They want to make it work too.
Ask. If it can work out, great. If not, know that Cap will generally offer strong students merit and need-based aid in an amount probably equal to or greater than full tuition, if the need is there. Maybe more than full tuition.
I think there’s only one of the full tuition scholarships available so frankly I wouldn’t spend a lot of money getting there to compete for what is really a day-long pitch-Capital-to-you event (I went when my son was up for it in 2012.).
Her invite said approximately 20 students win full tuition, but maybe that is across all scholarships and not just this specific Capital Scholars award? I’m going to contact them, but also anticipating what our preliminary scholarship award says that is expected to arrive this month. According to the NPC, she’ll get about $4k under full tuition in scholarship already, but another $4k per year would be huge for us.
Gotcha, they may have expanded. I do know if there’s need-based aid in her package, Cap will likely replace it with any additional merit, not stack it - or that was the case 3 years ago. You might check.
A few years back, IIT offered 50% of air fare for my son to be at its scholarship weekend.
The ones my girls did that required attendance to be considered paid for travel and housing/food for weekend (3 different schools- 1 state school and 2 LACs)