4 The Hampton Roads Messenger Editorial There is such a thing as ‘free money’ We all have heard about or Silicon Valley the
incredible options for graduates in the STEM field such as Defense Department dollars for cybersecurity training
venture
capital for internet startups. However, what many people may not realize is that there are just as many options for those who have chosen other career paths.
BY ANGELA JONES Graduation season is upon us
once again and along with the fragrant smell of May flowers, the sweet hopes and dreams of graduates permeate the air, as well. Whether still in search of the perfect job, making travel plans for that graduate school destination or making plans to matriculate to a local university after finishing high school, graduates should be aware of the many options that exist to fund the next stage of their life.
It does not matter if a graduate is age 17 or 57, there is a plethora of options to finance their high hopes, big dreams or lofty goals.
Scholarships,
essay contests, fellowships and crowdfunding are just a small sampling of the many ways to make a graduates’ goals achievable. There are stock piles of money just waiting for the right candidate to come along and pluck off their portion.
It is important for high school students to prepare for and take the PSAT prior to taking the SAT. The PSAT is more than just preparation for the SAT; it gives scholarship awarding organizations a glimpse into who the most promising college candidates are, similar to the information an athletic scout might take back to a football coach. If one does well on the PSAT, scholarship offers will find them, saving them the time consuming effort of having to search for scholarships on their own.
There exists an innumerable
amount of scholarships intended to ease the financial burden on students who want to further their education after graduating from high school. While some students may not mind needlessly hard-earned
spending their money, dipping
Fellowship. There are essay contests that offer
the winner as much as $20,000 like the Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest and the Chipotle Essay Contest. Aside from what students learn in school about writing essays, there are many tips available online that will assist them in
writing a contest-winning contest essay.
Often, essay success is only a matter of reading the essays that won that particular
previously, which
will assist in determining what will impress the judges.
It is important, when beginning a new stage in one’s life, to bring as little baggage as possible from the previous stage. That goal will not be accomplished if debt or financial insecurity
is looming. The name
of the career funding game should be “Debt Free.” Believe it or not there are students who leave college with considerably more money than when they began. Free money, from sources like scholarships, fellowships and essay contests, is there for those who are bold enough to claim it.
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May 2017
parents’ into
their study time at a low-wage job or haphazardly getting into debt with a student loan, other students plan for the financial rigors of college well before
submitting their college graduate school applications. or These
forward thinkers, applied for college scholarships like the Gates Millennium Scholarship and the Buick Achievers Scholarship or fellowships like the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the GEM
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