NAME DATE PERIOD

COLLEGE/SCHOLARSHIP RESEARCH

***YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO PAY TO APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP***

1.Identify three (3) SCHOLARSHIPS for which you qualify.DUE DATES

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2.Identify who you have asked/will ask to write your LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION. (They should/can be the same as for admissions applications as for scholarships.)

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3.Print off and attach APPLICATIONS for

  • The SW Community Scholarship,
  • or another scholarship application of your choice
  • The “download forms” college admissions application,
  • or another college admissions application of your choice.

4.Print off and attach a copy of your ACADEMIC RESUME

5.Include your day 1 personal essay or an updated PERSONAL STATEMENT (revised after Mr. Egger’s presentation or more specific to a college)

6.PLACE ALL ITEMS INTO YOUR MANILA COLLEGE FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE LABEL.

Student Name

Student contact information (phone/email)

Coursework:

  • AP classes (include score that have been reported)/
  • College Prep coursework(extra math, science, English, foreign language, advanced courses):
  • GPA:

Clubs/Activities:

  • For example:
  • French Club, Vice President in 11th grade, President in 12th grade
  • Earth Corps: Member since 10th grade. City wide trash clean-up 3x’s, Tree planting for Skagit Land Trust, Volunteer at Skagit Land Trust Auction
  • Fidalgo Youth Symphony, principal cello, 4 years, performed Vivaldi’s Double Cello concerto in G minor
  • National Honor Society: Member since 10th grade
  • Football, all four years

Awards:

  • For example:
  • Department Awards in science, math, drama, English, social studies, and world language
  • Eagle Scout, 2012
  • Honor roll, 9th-12th
  • AP Scholar
  • National Merit Finalist

Test Scores:

  • SAT Reasoning: Critical Reading, 660; Math 650; Writing 700
  • (Required for most California schools and selective colleges) SAT 2 Subject Tests: French 800, Chemistry 540, Literature 650
  • ACT: 32 Composite (34 Reading, 30 Math, 30 Science, 35 English, 31 Writing)
  • Will take SAT/ACT on ….
  • Will take Compass/Asset for community college on …

Volunteer Experience:

  • For example:
  • Lincoln Theatre: Volunteered for 2.5 years, once or twice per week, selling concessions, ushering, and cleaning. During live events, handout playbills, take tickets, usher.
  • LighthouseMissionOutreachCenter: Volunteered 2-3 per week during the summer, making meals, cleaning, organizing, folding, arranging donations.
  • March of Dimes: Junior year, Spring, drove to Seattle, “Ask Me” person and served breakfast to runners.
  • Mow the lawn of my elderly neighbor (March-October, since I was 11)

Work Experience:

  • For example:
  • Gap Inc: 1 year, 10-12 hrs per week during school year.
  • Sonic Drive-In: Summers of 2008-2009, 20-22 hours per week
  • Soccer Referee: Every summer since 8th grade
  • Babysitter each summer (8th grade to present)

Other:

  • For example:
  • Fluent speaker in French, Spanish, and Portuguese
  • Documented Cherokee
  • GSA student
  • Foster child
  • Only one parent working
  • Parents divorced
  • Residency issues
  • Dual Citizenship with Germany (US Born, German mother)
  • First to go to college/neither parent with a four year degree

SCHOLARSHIPS SWSD STUDENTS HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN AWARDED…FOLLOW THE MONEY $$$

(Gates Millenium Scholarship:1000 given out each year, Support for the cost of education by covering unmet need and self-help aid, including graduate school funding for continuing Scholars in the areas of computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science. Minimum GPA: 3.3 for African American, American Indian - Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American, Hispanic American who must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident / Foreign National)

The eligibility criteria to be considered for National Scholarships and Horatio Alger State Scholarship Programs are as follows: enrollment full time as a high school senior in the United States, progressing normally toward graduation in the Spring/Summer 2013, with plans to enter college no later than the fall following graduation; a strong commitment to pursuing and completing a bachelor's degree at an accredited institution located in the United States (students may start their studies at a two-year institution and then transfer to a four-year institution. Idaho, Louisiana, and Montana state scholarship recipients must pursue and complete a degree at specific colleges and universities. Please see the individual program description for those requirements); critical financial need ($50,000 or less adjusted gross income per family is preferred, if higher explanation must be provided); involvement in co-curricular and community activities;demonstrated integrity and perseverance in overcoming adversity, a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0; and United States Citizenship. Scholarship is worth $10,000.

Multiple scholarships available from this website:

Costco Scholarship

The Costco Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to highly qualifiedunderrepresented minority students who wish to attend SeattleUniversity or the University of Washington.

College Bound Scholarship

“If you are currently a College Bound Scholar, you probably know it. You signed up for this in middle school and would have received a letter or two lately about the College Bound Scholarship. Mrs. Slabodnik will be meeting with groups of College Bound Scholars in the fall, but feel free to sign up to see her at any time if you have questions about the scholarship.”

The College Bound Scholarship promises tuition (at public rates to the 67 eligible Washington State Institutions) and a small book allowance for income-eligiblestudents who sign up in the 7th or 8th grade, work hard in school, remain a good citizen and successfully apply to a higher education institution when they graduate. The College Success Foundation, in partnership with the state of Washington, and the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC), actively works with districts, schools, and community-based organizations to support College Bound students and families statewide. Click here for a list of College Bound staff members in your area who can help you sign up students.

  • Leadership 1000 Scholarship
  • Students must: Plan to attend, or currently be attending an eligible four-year college or university in Washington State. (Students attending a community or technical college will be considered if they are transferring to an eligible four-year college/university for the fall of 2012, of if they are planning to complete a bachelor's degree program offered at the community college.)ALL students completing the Leadership 1000 Scholarship Application must: Be a WashingtonState resident, (meeting in-state tuition requirements or eligibility for WashingtonState financial aid programs). Plan to enroll as a college Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior in fall 2012. Plan to file or have already filed a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid), if eligible. If not eligible to submit a FAFSA, alternative financial information must be submitted to the College Success Foundation if requested. Have a family incomefor 2011 that does not exceed: Family of 1 - $39,000 Family of 2 - $51,000 Family of 3 - $62,000 Family of 4 - $70,000 Family of 5 - $78,000 Family of 6 - $86,000Family of 7 - $94,000

Maintain a minimum 2.75 cumulative high school GPA through fall quarter/semester, if applying as a high school senior.Maintain a minimum2.75 cumulative college GPA through fall quarter/semester, if applying as a college student.Plan to enroll or actually be enrolled full-time as a college student, 12 credits per quarter or equivalent for semester.

  • Leadership 1000 Scholarship Continued…

Please note: International students, students on foreign exchange or visas and out-of-state residents are not eligible.

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Realize the Dream Scholarship

The Realize the Dream Scholarship is available to 2012 Washington State high school graduates who do NOT qualify for federal and state financial aid programs, but who do qualify for resident student status for state tuition and fees by completing an affidavit approved by House Bill (HB) 1079. On May 7, 2003, HB 1079 was signed into law by Governor Gary Locke. This law allows students who have lived in WashingtonState for three years or more to be considered “residents” but only for purposes of paying tuition fees at WashingtonState colleges and universities. House Bill 1079 does not change a student’s legal citizenship status. The law means that HB 1079 students qualify to pay the same tuition rates that all other resident students pay.To qualify, students must have earned a high school diploma from a Washington State high school, lived in Washington State for three years prior to receiving a high school diploma, lived continuously in Washington State since earning the high school diploma, and can meet the same college admission requirements of all other students. The affidavit that HB 1079 students are required to sign is a confidential statement verifying that he/she qualifies to pay resident tuition and that he/she will seek legal permanent residency when legally permitted to do so. The affidavit is available at any public college or university in the state, and can also be found on the Higher Education Coordinating Board's website. Student Eligibility This application should ONLY be completed by students who meet the following application filing requirements, including:1. Students are undocumented residents of the United States and therefore do not qualify to apply for federal or state financial aid programs.2. Students will receive their high school diploma from a WashingtonState high school in 2012.3. Students have a 2.0 or higher high school grade point average (GPA).4. Students plan to enroll in college full-time and complete an associate's and/or bachelor's degree.5. Students plan to enroll in the fall term 2012 at eligible Washington two-year or four-year colleges or universities.6. Students must be eligible to file the HB 1079 affidavit with public colleges and universities in order to permit them to quality for tuition rates that WashingtonState residents pay. 7. A student's 2011 family size and family income level meet the program requirements (e.g. for a family of 4, the 2011 family income must be $70,000 or less).

WashingtonState Governors’ Scholarship…NOVEMBER DEADLINE

students must: Be enrolled as a Washington State high school senior and on track to graduate from high school during the 2012-2013 academic year, Have a cumulative high school grade point average of 2.0 or greater, Plan to enroll in college on a full-time basis, beginning the fall term of 2013, and complete a program of study at an eligible, nonprofit accredited public or independent college or university in the state of Washington, Have resided in Washington State for at least three academic years prior to high school graduation, Submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), If under 18, students must currently have an open dependency court order that resulted from intervention by Washington State on their behalf and they have been placed in any of the following living situations: Foster Care, Family Foster Care, with non-relative adults, Kinship Care, with relatives, Residential/Group Care, Dependency Guardianship (with either relatives or non-relatives), Guardianship (with either relatives or non-relatives). If over 18, students must have lived in a court-ordered foster care, dependency guardianship or guardianship until emancipation, (age 18) OR The applicant is currently, or was until age 18 in federally-recognized care. The applicant has been classified by the United States Government as an unaccompanied minor refugee, is a legal permanent resident, and is in legal care, (or was in care until emancipation) of a private non-profit agency in Washington State ORThe applicant is currently, or was until age 18, under a dependency tribal court order that placed the student outside the home. Applicants are not eligible if they: Have been adopted, Returned to live with their parents before turning 18, (regardless of whether the court continued to remain involved), Have had their dependency court order dismissed,Were not dependent to federal, state or tribal court prior age 18

Passport for foster youth promise program

Created by the state of Washington, the Passport for Foster Youth Promise Program encourages foster youth to prepare for and succeed in college. Eligible foster youth can receive scholarships and other forms of financial aid that will help pay tuition and living expenses for up to five years of college. Scholars receive guidance from college academic and financial aid counselors, assistance finding housing during school breaks and over the summer, special consideration for the State Need Grant and State Work Study

Passport for foster youth promise program Continued…

financial aid programs, and help finding student employment. To learn more about the program, Application EligibleYou are eligible for this program if: You spent at least one year in foster care after your sixteenth birthday. You emancipated from foster care on or after January 1, 2007. You will be

enrolled at least half-time in an eligible college by the time you turn 21. You are a Washington resident. You are not pursuing a degree in theology.You have not yet earned a bachelor’s degree.

Dell Scholars Program ScholarshipTo be eligible to apply for the Dell Scholars Program scholarship,

you must meet the below listed criteria: Participating in a Michael & Susan Dell Foundation approved college readiness program(AVID)for a minimum of two of the last three years, Graduating from an accredited high school this academic year, earning a minimum of a 2.4 GPA, Demonstrated need for financial assistance, Planning to enter a bachelor's degree program at an accredited higher education institution in the fall directly after your graduation from high school, U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.

Dell Scholars are students who demonstrate their desire and ability to overcome barriers and to achieve their goals. Your application will be evaluated on your: Individual determination to succeed,Future goals and plans to achieve them,Ability to communicate the hardships you have overcome or currently face, Self motivation in completing challenging coursework, Demonstrated need for financial assistance.

ConocoPhillips Dependent Scholarship Program

Bank of American ADA Abilities Scholarship Program APRIL 1.

This scholarship application must be used by any student applying for a Bank of America ADA Abilities Scholarship. Below is a detailed explanation of the program, outlining the criteria for qualification. Please follow all the instructions to complete the application, either on-line or by mail. There is additional information required to complete your application packet. It is your responsibility to request these materials. Deadline for receipt of all applications and additional materials is April 1. The Center for Scholarship Administration, Inc. (CSA), an independent, non-profit scholarship administration service, is the administrator of the program. TO APPLY YOU MUST MEET ALL OF THE CRITERIA LISTED BELOW: Applicants must be high school seniors, high school graduates, or enrolled in undergraduate school under the age of 40. Associates and/or dependents of associates of Bank of America are not eligible to apply. Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 on the most recent transcript and must plan to attend college in the fall of the year the award is made. Applicants must pursue a degree in Finance, Business or Computer Systems AND plan on a career with a banking institution. Applicants must maintain a permanent residence in states where Bank of America has retail locations: Washington. Applicants must have written documentation from an appropriate provider supporting that the candidate meets the definition of disabled as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Applicants must be US citizens.

Champions of Diversity Scholarship…OCTOBER DEADLINE

What to Look For In a Nominee

  1. Demonstrating a commitment to community service and leadership
  2. Demonstrating cultural awareness or unique perspectives or experiences
  3. Demonstrating notable tenacity, insight, originality or creativity
  4. 1st generation college student (neither parent has a 4 year university degree)
  5. Exercising responsibility in a family, a community, employment or through activities
  6. Attaining college prep education in the face of significant personal adversity, economic disadvantage (free or reduced lunch) or disability

Scholarships can range from $1000 to full tuition at participating in-state public schools: CentralWashingtonUniversity, EasternWashingtonUniversity, SkagitValleyCollege, The Evergreen State College, University of Washington, Bothell, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State University, WesternWashingtonUniversity

(SWHS counseling site)

McIntyre Scholarship, Local, due on or around Feb. 12 (full tuition, housing/meals)

  • Must be graduating in June 2013
  • Must be used at an in-state, public, 4-year college

SW Community Scholarship, Local, due on or around Feb. 12 (20ish Community Programs)

  • Must be graduating from SWHS in June 2013
  • ANYONE going on to another school next fall (2013), REGARDLESS of G.P.A. should apply:

4-year college

Community college

Technical college (like BellinghamTechnicalCollege)

Career college (like WyoTech, ITT, Art Institute of Seattle, NorthwestHairAcademy, etc.)

Harrison Memorial FFA Scholarship, Local, by May 11.

Robert Benham Memorial FFA Scholarship, Local, by May 11.

Anne Jackson Memorial Law Enforcement Memorial Scholarship, by May 15 (for anyone, not just going into law enforcement).

Gretchen Heuterman Memorial Scholarship, for WashingtonStateUniversity, by May 18.

Other Ideas:

Steelclaw

Skagit Runners

PSE

Parents’ employers

Banks

Churches

Activities

Personal traits

Career choices

Tribal Affiliations

Health issues

that offers scholarship to Washington students seeking 2-4 year degrees)

(sign up with personalize information to see for what scholarship within Washington you may

qualify)

Post-Secondary Timeline for Seniors

By Mid-October of senior year you should:

  • Have completed your academic resume and asked your 3 people for letters of recommendation

With deadline dates and school names provided

  • Have registered for the SAT’s or ACT’s if you have not already taken them
  • Have finished your college campus visits and know the schools you want to which you want to apply
  • Be starting your college admissions applications if you have not already (recommendation is 3-5 applications)
  • Be aware of early action admissions; some college have restricted early action which means if you apply for early action and are admitted, you have committed to attending that college

By Thanksgiving Break of senior year you should:

  • Have your college admissions applications (including any essay or response questions) completed and ready to submit (University of Washington has a December 1 deadline); the earlier you apply the higher priority you get with selecting on-campus housing
  • Take the ASSET/COMPASS if planning to attend community/technical college in the following fall (because you can retake it in 3 months if you want to try for a better score, i.e. test into 100-level math and English for college level classes rather than remedial, non-credit classes; retakes do have a fee)

After Christmas Break of senior year you should: