Federal Student Loan Official Quits

It looks like the Federal Student Aid office has been lax in overseeing the student loan industry. Details...

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) have two scholarships that are over $10,000. You can click on the title of today's post to find out about the written essay.

The other is somewhat unique in that it is an audio essay.

http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=cmty.leveld&did=150

The link is directly above and the following paragraphs are taken from the site with only minor editing.

Created in 1947, the Voice of Democracy (VOD) scholarship program is an audio-essay contest for high school students in grades 9-12 that annually provides more than $3 million in scholarships. The first-place winner, who competes with all the first-place VFW Department winners, receives a $30,000 scholarship that is paid directly to the recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school.

Besides competing for the top scholarship prize, as well as other national scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $16,000, each Department's first-place winner receives an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C..The VOD program is endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals' contest criteria and is designed to foster patriotism by allowing students the opportunity to voice their opinion in a three to five minute essay based on an annual theme.

Students can enter by submitting the required entry form, along with their essay and recording to a local VFW Post.

Those in Reality Changers might find the following UFW post information useful:

Post 5431
Col. Frank M. Brezina Post
411 N Hwy 101
Solana Beach, CA 92075
United States
(858) 259-7348

You can find a post close to you by visiting the site below.

http://emem.vfw.org/findpost.aspx

This link takes you to the most recent winning essay as of this posting.
Read Winning Essay

Allegheny Is A Hidden Gem

I know someone who just decided on Allegheny - a pastor's kid no less. I'm told that this school has all kinds of really incredible stuff going on. U.S. News & World Report's 2007 Edition of America's Best Colleges says biology/biological sciences, psychology, economics, political science and government, and English language and literature are the most popular majors.

Some people might say, "I've never heard of it." Well...now you have. Allegheny College looks reallllly good. They say that they're changing lives.

Check it out by clicking on the link above or the title of today's post. Really. Take a look. You never know. You might enjoy Pennsylvania.

Finding My Way From RealityChangers.org To ScholarshipAmerica.org

I just recently met someone while I was volunteering at Reality Changers who sent me a list of scholarships sites to check out. While in the process of doing that, I ran across a Tylenol Scholarship. I had some difficulty getting to the scholarships from the Tylenol site, but found ScholarshipAmerica.org after realizing that they had changed their name from Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc. to Scholarship America.

These are a couple of the sites that got me there.

http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subptyschol.inc

http://www.collegescholarships.com/scholarships_63.html

Researching scholarships isn't always easy as not everyone is making an effort to improve the usability of their site. This blog is just beginning for me. If you have scholarships sites you want to let others know about, email me. I prefer links to the actual scholarship, like this one:

http://www.zonta.org/site/PageServer?pagename=zi_issues_programs_ywpa_application

That way, you can see if that particular scholarship is for you and then you can click on a link to see more about that particular organization.

Click on the title of today's post to see another way to search scholarship sites.


Here's an article on the organization that became Scholarship America:

http://www.connectbiz.com/stories/csfa.html

DrNetwork's Scholarships For Women Trail

I made a trail of scholarships and scholarship-interest sites for you to follow at Trailfire:

Scholarships For Women Trail