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Course: College admissions > Unit 1
Lesson 3: Access to college- Who can succeed in college?
- Student story: Overcoming cultural obstacles to college
- Student story: Overcoming anxiety around not fitting in as an obstacle to college
- Student story: Overcoming time management obstacles to college
- Student story: Overcoming social obstacles to college
- Student story: Overcoming lack of high school support as an obstacle to college
- Student story: Overcoming immigration obstacles to college
- Student story: Overcoming financial obstacles to college
- Student story: Overcoming the financial aid process as an obstacle to college
- Student story: Overcoming family obstacles to college
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Student story: Overcoming financial obstacles to college
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Hi i am a freshmen in highschool im wondering
how do you get scholarships for college
Do AP classes help pay for college
How do AP classes benefit a student(9 votes)
You apply for scholarships. AP classes do not pay for college directly, but often taking AP courses will qualify you for scholarships, and getting good grades in AP courses will have colleges wanting you.(9 votes)
Hey, I am wondering, how do you apply for scholarships at school?(9 votes)
It really depends on the school. Some schools automatically consider you for a scholarship when you send in your freshmen application, or require that you fill out a separate scholarship-specific form in addition to your acceptance application. Furthermore, some colleges offer a variety of scholarship types, and have certain requirements, prerequisites, and forms that go along with each (usually high GPAs and demonstration of leadership/extra-curricular activities for the highest scholarships). Also, there are many, many scholarships available outside of the school made available by the government, local institutions, and school boards. These almost always require an application to be considered.
For the school scholarships, it would be best to check their website for exact details regarding their requirements; for the outside-of-school scholarships, also check their websites, and talk with a high school counselor or college financial-aid officer to find out about the scholarships and how to apply for them.(11 votes)
Is Khan Academy information on colleges only pertinent to the USA?(6 votes)
Mostly yes. Outside the US, the process is luckily much simpler: follow your school system and do well in each class. Keep going to the better schools and study hard. Education will pay off. If you do very well, you will continue to university by a streamlined process.
Inside the US, colleges look at more than simply grades and the application process is also much more variable, as is the culture about going to university. College/university in the US for good students is almost an expectation, while this is much less the case for non-US countries because there are other sort of professional schools and traineeships.(5 votes)
- The process of getting a Financial Aid does take many steps to get it right. Also why is there so many steps to it you don't need lot of information I really don't completely understand .(4 votes)
how can I apply for college(3 votes)
Just contact the college that you want and they'll send you an application. Your school counselor can help you with filling out the application and giving advice.(2 votes)
- What if I don't stand out academically enough to get academic scholarships and our income is not low enough to get financial aide? I also am not a shining star in any extra curricular activities.Am I too average for scholarships and college?(3 votes)
How get a financial aid (that is not a loan)?(2 votes)
Schools don't give out financial aid in the form of loans. Loans come from banks. Instead, they give out reward packages, grants, and scholarships. They can all add up to thousands of dollars, if you're a good student!(3 votes)
What are the benchmarks one would need to qualify for a fee waver?
Is this solely based on family income, is there some academic threshold needed to demonstrate you are worthy of consideration, is it based on your ability to come up with some sob story about how desolate and down on your luck you are, or do they wave anyone who asks making the fee something that only the uninformed pay?(2 votes)
It's solely based on your family's financial situation.(2 votes)
what is the best way of getting scholarships when you have already graduated when i was 16 with a 2.7 GPA with 26.50 credits?(2 votes)- Hello i'm a junior in highschool, I live in Belgium (europe)
I really want to study in the us but i don't know where to start. If you guys have advice it will really help me.(2 votes)
Video transcript
- So I think when I was first
thinking about university it was probably my junior
year of high school. The scariest part about the process for me was definitely going to be the cost of actually applying to schools. I did a preliminary search and saw that it costs up to 80 dollars to
apply to each individual school and so one of my big concerns
going into the process was definitely about whether or not I'd be able to afford to
apply to a lot of schools. No, I was actually not aware
of fee wavers at the time until of course I found
out through Quest Bridge. The way I found out about
this process actually is the summer after my
junior year of high school I attended a Quest Bridge
conference actually here at Yale University where
kind of the Quest Bridge team talked to low income students about, not only the process of
actually applying to schools, but also about the different benefits that you can take advantage of such as fee wavers that
you could usually get from your guidance
counselor or via contacting the admissions office for universities.