Well it is the scholarship season. And yet if you are a highschooler working close to full time (40+) hours a week, your getting nothing. Why is that? I work my butt off at work, and school, and the millions of activities I'm in. And yet students in my same g.p.a. section are getting scholarships for nothing. I mean if i knew now that high school activites and my job would be ruining my chances at a scholarship, I would have been lazy like everyone else. I mean it's not that I don't love my activites and job, I do. It is that schools and scholarship programs are like I make too much or my parents do. Guess what? I'm not going to ask my parents to help with college. But yet that option is not even considered a choice when filling things out. What about the students who are willing to take their own future into their hands? All that those kids are getting is massive student loan bills. Like college and life is not stressful enough right now, majority of accepeted college bound people are freaking out about how to pay for it. Who wants to bet there will be bright college accepted students who don't even go to college in the fall because their parents make to much but yet still can not afford college. What about rewarding people who worked so hard in highschool for their academics and activites vs. those still in their gpa bracket with no activities to speak of? There is something wrong with how things are done.
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i feel your pain... i'm currently working in an after-school daycare and i'm also looking for another job... i'm applying for jobs that would put me in an environment with the people and the terminology i will need to know and be around in my career... not to say that finding such a job is an easy thing... i've applied for two jobs and one scholarship every week for a little over a month now, and i still haven't found an opening, or any more money for college.
my parents put me through private school... which i loved, and i got an AWESOME education... but they spent all the money saved up for college on my school tutition. so now i'm putting myself through college. i did have a scholarship to get me through my first year of college, but now that my second year is quickly approaching, i'm seeing big bills and small resources.
i know it would be a lot of work, but couldn't there somehow be a way to take scholarship applicants on a one-by-one basis?? look at what we're doing to help pay for college... look at all we did in high school to help all that out... look at EVERYTHING and determine who should benefit??
i don't really know how to solve it, but i guess instead of complaining, i'll just keep working my tail off to find a little extra money here and there.
*sigh*
good luck in your search as well!
~bgetteb
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes..."
The crunch is on, for college acceptances and scholarships. Everyone can feel the pressure. Its hard. Keep trying. See my blog about teen working and school. It is hard to balanbce the too.
http://www.progressiveu.org/190320-working-teens-not-always-a-good-fit
- Jennee
" You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might get what you need"
I totally agree with you there! If I had known that non-working students got more financial help than the tax paying working ones. Well, I would have to say that I would have happily fallen into the other category. lol
But alas is the fate of me
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