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Scholarships for college students Applying for scholarships for college students As you continue your studies and try new extracurricular activities in college, you might be eligible for more scholarships you weren’t originally qualified for. Don't forget to revisit college scholarship opportunities regularly as you continue college or get more involved on or off campus. Considerations If you get more college scholarship money, it might affect your other student aid. All of your student aid added together can’t be more than your cost of attendance at your college or career school. You’ll need to let your school know if you’ve been awarded a scholarship, so the financial aid office can subtract that amount from your cost of attendance. Benefit Remember, scholarships for college students are free money, so you’ll still be paying less for college. How are college scholarships awarded Many scholarships are awarded for academic or athletic excellence. But scholarships aren’t just for st...

There are diverse sorts of grants to enable you to pay for school  In case you're a secondary school seniorIt's about time to begin choosing which grants you need to apply for. When you discover a rundown of grants you like, ensure they're for secondary school understudies.  Grants for secondary school seniors  As you intend to take your SATs and ACTs, and are booking your school visits, add looking for grants to your school agenda. Only one out of every odd grant for secondary school seniors depends on scholarly execution or money related need. There are grants for secondary school understudies dependent on ethnic foundation, field of study, and even extracurricular exercises. Your side interest or premium may get you cash for school.  Begin your scan for grants for secondary school seniors with Scholarship Search. It's free and gives you a chance to modify your inquiry dependent on your interests, age, review level, and the sky is the limit from there. You can even...

Introduced in 2008, How America Pays for College typically focuses on the current academic year, spotlighting yearover-year changes in behavior. This year’s How America Pays for College report, marking the 10-year anniversary of the study, takes a deep dive into differences in payingfor-college attitudes and behaviors over the past decade. Notably, the balance of contributions from source categories has shifted. While some up-and-down movement is expected annually in the proportion of contributions from various resources, scholarship and grant contributions have grown into the leading position. The proportion of costs covered by scholarships and grants shifted up or down frequently in the early years of this study but, since 2011-12, this source has increased each year but one, and the average amounts contributed have increased steadily since that same year, regardless of total average spending. Parent income and savings contributions have been uneven. This is particularly notable ...

Harvard is full of surprises. If you told me during my freshman year that I would be a part of a theater group, I would have said no way! Don’t get me wrong - I love the arts. One of my favorite things about Harvard is all the incredible shows that are held on campus and in the area! And I personally love to create via photography and creative writing. However, my experience with being in theater is limited (and should probably stop) with a middle school performance as a singing gingerbread cookie in Hansel and Gretel. Sometimes the song about veggie stew still gets stuck in my head… Flashforward to spring semester of junior year, and I am on Cabot Theatre Board! I joined after going to some of their events, which were so fun, my sophomore year. Cabot Theatre Board is a group within Cabot House where I live. For a quick overview of Harvard Housing: all upperclassmen live in one of twelve Houses on campus.  Each has their own dining hall, laundry facilities,...

Looking for ways to enhance your students' learning and gain valuable professional development opportunities? Here are four ways you can with freely available online content from HarvardX.  1. Learn cutting-edge content from Harvard faculty Are you looking to deepen your content knowledge and learn new teaching strategies? High school mathematics teacher Kris Kelsh found both when she audited CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science to prepare for teaching her honors-level CS course. “I took CS50x to get content ideas for my new course, but I also appreciated how Professor David Malan teaches by using examples.  So I learned some instructional strategies, too.” Kelsh plans to integrate into her class several course videos that explain different Internet protocols and use Malan’s strategy of purposely typing an error into a program to help students better understand debugging.  2. Connect students to new viewpoints When students interact virtually with o...

All of your Harvard journey has culminated in this completely optional task which you could have –not done- -, but instead of taking the easy way out and enjoying senior spring, you decided to commit yourself to about 6 months of utter suffering. Your MacBook is staring you down; Microsoft Word is shouting at you, “Look at all these blank pages you haven’t filled!” You begin to think to yourself. C’mon, you can do it. You can tackle that paper; it’s just roughly the length of 30 response papers in that one class you took Freshman Year. You cry. Where has Freshman Year gone? You get nostalgic. I miss the Harvard Yard. I miss Annenberg. I miss Freshman Dean Dingman’s corny jokes. You peruse old Facebook pictures and remember that your time at Harvard does have purpose. You steel yourself and make a commitment to begin working. But then your brain realizes: your room is a mess . You certainly can’t get any work done in these conditions, so the only way to make...

Senior spring. The allusive, yet so deeply cherished set of months that every Harvard student dreams of. At this point, you know every campus shortcut, the best dining hall creations and study spots, and the coffee shops with reliable WiFi and even better drinks. So what’s more to do? This is me. I am a Senior, concentrating in Government and set to graduate in May of 2018–just three months away. I can’t count how many times I’ve started a conversation topic with “remember when” or looked longingly at places across campus where I laughed with friends. I’m studious by day and nostalgic by night. With the end of school near, I wanted to reflect on the “must do’s” of Boston and Harvard, interweaved with some fond memories. 1) Explore local music Cambridge, Somerville, Allston, Brighton. These smaller, neighboring towns are home to an array of concert halls and festivals. Here, you’ll find musicians ranging from local “up-and-comer’s” to arena stars. Museums and...