Most college scholarships and tuition grants are based on academic excellence, exceptional athletic skills, and leadership potential. But even college scholarships, serious as they come, do get hit with a jolt of weirdness.
If you happen to be a bagpipe enthusiast, then perhaps the Carnegie Mellon University Bagpipe Scholarship is a fit for you. Sponsored by the highly revered Carnegie Mellon University, this college tuition initiative is yours if you so choose to pick bagpipe playing as your college major.
For hard core Star Trek fans, you could be in luck as well. The Klingon Language Institute's Kor Memorial Scholarship is created to financially aid creative language majors. For those who are not familiar with Klingons, they are big, hairy creatures that have appeared in Star Trek. Fortunately, you do not have to be a fluent with the Klingon language to qualify.
The Starfleet Academy Scholarship is $500 college tuition grant awarded to members of the Starfleet Academy, an organization copied directly from the fictional Star Trek academy. Aside from that, the Starfleet Academy also offers the Gene Roddenberry Memorial Scholarship for Aspiring Writers and the DeForest Kelley/Dr. Leonard McCoy Medical Scholarship to its deserving members.
Another bizarre shot at college education is the Duct Brand Duct Tape Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest. Aside from the fact that you are going to college, the only other requirement is that you and your date should dress in duct tape on your prom night.
There are still a number of weird scholarships and college tuition grants that are out of this world when it comes to weirdness. But if such scholarships can land you in college, then perhaps you better try to internalize and see if you have some weirdness in you.
Watch out for Part 2!
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