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Seniors... You're
the leaders of our school!
Allow Jesus to lead you in the days and
weeks ahead.
Scholarships: click on "College Scholarships"
College
Applications *Apply to your favorite
colleges and universities online-----------most schools prefer online
applications. Many schools have early
application deadlines in October if it is your first choice
college or university. **Send your college
applications by November 30th for best consideration from colleges
and universities.
Apply for scholarships from
colleges immediately after being accepted. Money is often
given out on a first come, first served basis.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Info on scholarships will be found
this year on our web site under Guidance Office and College
Scholarships. Please check the college scholarship page often!
Scholarships are added weekly as they are received.
College assistance web
sites
Finance and scholarships:
www.finaid.org
www.fastweb.com
www.scholarships.com
College info and searches:
www.christiancollegesearch.com
www.collegeview.com
www.wiredscholar.com
www.collegenet.com
U.S.
Department of Education Announces Student Eligibility
Options for New Academic Grants
This week,
the U.S. Department of Education announced
guidelines and eligibility options for high school
seniors to apply for new Academic Competitiveness Grants and
for college students to apply for National SMART Grants for
the 2006-07 academic year. Students who completed rigorous
coursework in high school or who are pursuing degrees in
math, science and critical foreign languages are eligible
for a portion of $790 million in new federal funding for
higher education.
Academic Competitiveness
Grants
Under the
Academic Competitiveness Grants program, grants will be
available to students in their first and second years of
college. Congress has established that an eligible
first-year student may receive up to $750 and eligible
second-year students may receive up to $1,300. In order to
be eligible, students must have completed a rigorous
secondary school program of study and be enrolled or
accepted in a two- or four-year degree-granting institution
of higher education. First-year students must not have been
previously enrolled in a program of undergraduate education
and must have graduated from high school after
Jan. 1, 2006. Second-year students must have
graduated from high school after Jan. 1, 2005, and have had
at least a cumulative 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) during
their first year of college.
Students in
public or private
schools, home-schooled, or enrolled overseas in
Department of Defense schools
have several options
by which to demonstrate successful completion of a rigorous
secondary school program of study, thereby establishing
their eligibility for
Academic Competitiveness Grants. For the 2006-07
academic year, the Department will immediately recognized
four options as demonstrating successful completion of a
rigorous program of study:
Advanced or
Honors diplomas conferred by States;
State
Scholars Initiative requirements;
A set of
courses similar to those under the State Scholars Initiative
(four years of English, three years of math, three years of
science three years of social studies, and one year of a
foreign language); and
Advanced
Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB)
courses and scores (two AP or IB courses and passing scores
on the exams for those courses).
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