A minority scholarship may be exactly what you require if you are a minority and are looking at the mountain of literature about the colleges you want to attend, where it seems like every little thing has a fee associated with it. What happens is that the total cost seems to add up to an astronomical figure, one that you could only afford if you were to win the state lottery.
Seriously, the cost of a good college education is very expensive these days. The problem with this is multiple things. First of all, many people are electing to only go to a two year college, or may elect not to attend college at all. This is a drastic mistake, especially in today's economic and very competitive times. Your college degree is your admission ticket to today's job market, and without that degree, your chances of getting the job you want or a good job are very minimized.
But this presents another problem. If not going to college is not an option, how are you going to get the money to fund your college education? Good question, and surely your parents have mentioned that money does not grow on trees these days. The option most prospective students take is to get a federal student loan. The interest rate is low, the rates are extremely competitive, and you don't have to start paying it back until after you graduate.
Aha! The key problem is that last part where it says "you start paying it back". Even with a student loan, it needs to be paid back. After you graduate and start looking for a job in your field of study, perhaps relocating to a different city and then also having to find an apartment or place to live, you have more than enough to worry about without having the additional stress caused by your student loan payments being due.
The beauty of a minority scholarship is that it does not need to be paid back, ever. It is money that is given to you and they do not expect repayment, not ever. And the additional beauty of it is that there is no law or regulation that prevents you from having several college scholarships all at once.
You see, most people realize this but they think their chances of getting a minority scholarship are minimal. The reality of it is that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, there are hundreds of scholarships available every year that simply are not awarded simply because nobody applied for them! The sponsors of those scholarships would have happily given those scholarships to people who applied for them, but NOBODY applied for them, so they had to take it back and do NOTHING with it.
How sad is that? Prospective students need to be familiar with what scholarships are requiring these days, since it is very different from what it used to be. For example, it used to be that the vast majority of college scholarships were only awarded to the academic geniuses or the football jocks or the chess club champion. It used to be that you would only get a scholarship if your financial situation was so bad that you could not even feed a parking meter.
Those days are long past. These days, college scholarships are awarded to people who APPLY for them. Most do not require any particular financial requirement or need on the part of the student, and have very reasonable academic requirements, some even being awarded to students with a grade point average as low as a 2.0. And if you are a minority, there are many minority scholarships available that cannot be awarded unless the applicant is part of a particular minority group.
Remember, the key is that you need to apply for each and every minority scholarship where you meet the requirements. Most can be done online so there is not even the cost of a postage stamp involved with it, just the very simple requirement that you APPLY. Stop wishing and start applying today!
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