Having green eyes, a parent that has been incarcerated and even being Italian can make you eligible to receive all sorts of scholarships. Billions of dollars are given away easily to students to help pay for their college on offbeat websites, www.fastweb.com for instance. Most of them not even needing an essay or any other form of admission to become eligible; “Doodle for Google” $30,000 scholarship’s only requirement is designing an one of a kind drawing of your ‘best day ever’ using the Google template; earning the “Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge”$20,000 scholarship consists of a 14 hour challenge to solve an open-ended, realistic, applied math-modeling problem focused on a real-world issue; even raising awareness to secondhand smoke by simply sending a text to the majority of your friends enters you to receive a $2,000 scholarship.
Though these are quite easy to receive, do students actually know they exist? “Yeah I’ve heard of these scholarship before, they’re really good opportunity to get extra money for school,” commented Bryant Nguyen, 12th grade. Others have never heard of them. Katie Ciandella, 11th grade, said “no I haven’t heard of them, where are they?” They may know they exist but does anyone apply to them? “I haven’t applied yet but I plan on it!”
There are other ways to receive scholarships, Bright Futures for instance. This scholarship in particular requires you to do from 50 to 100 hours of community service, have a 3.0 GPA or higher, and obtain a good score on the SAT. They require more from the students in order to receive one. Learn more about this scholarship here.
