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Financial aid and scholarships.
I am a senior in high school and I'm trying to prepare for college. I already know that I want to attend ASU if I get accepted (I have back up schools ready though). I want to go for education (high school math). I'm looking for websites with scholarships I can apply for or any financial aid information. ASU costs a little less than $10,000 per year and I am paying for college myself - no parental help.
I'm already a member of college board, fastweb, and cfnc.org. I live in NC if that helps. My gpa is a 3.3 and will more than likely go up by the end of senior year. I'm an honors student (english, math, history) and I'm in Multi-Culture club and Interact club. I was in FCCLA for about a year and a half. The only club I'm an officer in is Multi-Culture (public relations officer). I'm 17, Caucasion, Italian and French.
I'm not really sure if all of that matters though. I've googled a lot of websites and my school councilor gave me some. I was just wondering, from experience, if any of you have any really good websites for scholarship, grants, financial aid, etc. I was going to apply for teaching fellows but the deadline passed so it's too late for that (redundancy, I know). I have applied for about 10 simple scholarships on fastweb but that's about it (I don't think I got any of them, I would have heard by now). I'm good at writing so anything with an essay won't phase me. I'm not trying to talk myself up because, despite my difficult classes, I'm not really that smart. Also, if I don't get scholarships than I would like some information on student loans and such. My parents can be really frustrating and I really ike being independent and hate having them help me. So now they're being really in-my-face and refusing to cosign any loans so I don't know what I'll do without scholarships. I have about $3,500 in the bank right now and if I'm lucky I may have up to $5,000 by the time school would start next year So that will cover about half of tuition. I know that once I get there I can get some sort of student job to help myself out but until then I really don't know how I can get the other $5,000. My grandparents say that whatever I earn in scholarship money they will give me half (so if I earned $1,000 they would give me $500 making me half $1500 total... )
I know this was a lot to read and probably confusing so I do appreciate any help given to me! Thanks!
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I would recommend contacting the financial aid office at ASU. Helping you pay for college and letting you know of all the financial aid opportunities that you have is their job! They will be able to give you information on scholarships that you are eligible to apply for, let you know all about work study, and give you recommendations on student loans. I think that setting up a meeting and actually going in and talking to someone will help you the most, though phone and e-mail are always options too. Talk to your guidance counselor at your high school as well. There may be local scholarships that you can apply for. Good luck! :)
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