LOCAL SCHOLARSHIP

It is typical for persons to find scholarships in their home region. Information on these can be found by asking local persons and organization. Typically, these are less competitive as the eligible population is smaller. 

• Guidance counselors: When starting to explore scholarship opportunities, most high school students check with their guidance counselors. They can be a reliable resource for local scholarships.
• Non-profit organizations and Charitable trusts: Most non-profit organizations have at some point of their history founded scholarships for prospective students. The Good School Guide, a guide to schools in the UK, states "Charitable grant-making trusts can help in cases of genuine need," and goes on to outline several instances where this may be the case, including an "unforseen family disaster" and a "need for special education".
• Community foundations: Many counties and cities and regions have a local foundation dedicated to giving money in the form of grants and scholarships to people and organizations in the area.
• Music teachers: Some music teachers offer reduced-cost or free lessons to help low-income children gain access to an arts education. In addition, some local non-profits provide free music classes to youths.
• Foundations: Certain Foundations in the United States offer scholarships for Entrepreneurial Endeavors.
• Labor Unions: All the major labor unions offer scholarships for members and their dependent children.
• Houses of Worship: The local house of worship may or may not have any scholarships for their members, but the religious organization or headquarters may have some available. Of course, theology study is highly encouraged.
• Chamber of Commerance: Many chambers of commerce offer (usually small) grants to students in the community, especially those planning on careers in business and public service. Even if they do not offer any themselves, one can usually get a listing of members, and many of them may offer small scholarships to local students.
• Other volunteer organizations: Many organizations offer scholarships or award grants to students whose background or chosen field overlaps the field of the organization. For example, local chapters of professional societies may help the studies of exceptionally distinguished students of the region. Similarly, charity organizations may offer help, especially if the late parent of the student was a member of the organization (e.g., a Masonic lodge might help the orphan of a lodge brother.) This kind of scholarship is mostly ad hoc.
• School: Old, well-known schools are often endowed with scholarship funds.
• University: Old, well-established universities may have funds to finance the studies of extremely talented students of little means. To be eligible, a student often must belong to some special category or be among a nation's best. However, universities have information available on scholarships and grants, possibly even internship opportunities.
• PSAT/NMSQT: In the United States, students are offered the opportunity to take the PSAT/NMSQT test, usually in their junior year of high school. Not only does it help them to prepare for the SAT later on, but National Merit Scholarship programs are determined, in the first step, by the scores received on the PSAT/NMSQT test. Some private scholarship programs require applicants to take the PSAT.

Other sources of information on scholarships are libraries, newspapers, the yellow pages, and Internet search engines.

adopted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarship

HOW TO GET A SCHOLARSHIP

There are things you can do to get a scholarship :

Increase your score. Your lesson score determined whether you get scholarship or not. Study hard in order to get good score. Higher score is better.

•  After got your lesson score, a good score, you may request your transcript. Higher your score, your chance to get scholarship is bigger.
   
• Request a certificate that tells you an active student. As a college student, you have to be diligent in attends the lecture. Because it also determined whether you proper to get a scholarship or not.
   
•  Make a letter recommendation from neighborhood association where you live. This is also for determining your family financial condition, you are reasonable to receive scholarship or not. If you a rich, the chance to get scholarship is lower.
   
•  Find scholarship resource. There are various types scholarships source but you have to accurately to find the info. Usually source of scholarship come from government, company, foundation or corporate. You can also find scholarship info by internet.

What Do I Think About SCHOLARSHIP?

SCHOLARSHIP , yeah. What do I think about it? Maybe that word isn’t strange in your ears. Especially in High School, so many scholarship offer  to join at university.  What is the mean of scholarship? Scholarship is education fund that is given by government or instantion to someone as appreciation of their achievement. For example, Andreas Dwi Marianto Gunawan. He got a gold medals in Mathematics Olympiad in Milan as representatives from Indonesia and he got a scholarship to continue his university lecture at NTU, Singapore. WOW!
 

There are many things you can get if you get a scholarship. First, you can pay less or even FREE for the university fee (Wow! It of course will lower your financial responsibility). Second, you can get a lot experience (Especially for you who get the scholarship to another country, is like Singapore, Perth, Meulbourne, etc.). Third, you can get more knowledge. The scholarship which are available usually given by high standart university. And of course, skills that’s given there are very different that in standart university. And the last, for you who get a scholarship will get a job easily. Why? Because, usually if an instantion want to employee someone, they will look at your background, especially for your education. If you have ever got a scholarship, of course you have good point too.It ‘cause the instantion will think that you are achievers and your ability have been qualified.

But, some scholarship require a contract that obligate you to work for the instantion. While, with your skills and ability you got, you can get better job. It’s not easy to get a scholarship. Many test have to do, academics and non-academics.

Okay all, that is my opinion about scholarship.