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Should I try the scholarship?
Um, so, I'm 15 and currently in the first year of highschool. I always checked online about university scholarship so I can just apply for it and stuff like that. But then I stuck on a website that hands over a scholarship, but it's not for university instead it's a scholarship for highschool. So if I apply for that scholarship, and everything goes well, I'll repeat my first year in a compeletely new school, but it's free tuition. There's some reasons why I feel some doubts in applying. First, I'll be away from my parents cause it's like in a different state and I know they wouldn't let me apply easily cause I get sick often and my parents can be a little overprotective somehow. Secondly, in the requirement column they said it's for students who has a good academic records. And it's not like I'm stupid, but it's not like I'm smart either. I guess my records were only in the state of "OK". And I'm more good in non academical subjects like art and literature. I'm afraid I would look dumb in the entry test. Well, I'm certain I'll look dumb while taking the tests. There's like a huge differences in my math and art score. And I don't know if I'm really suited for this? And the last thing is that even though the tuition is free, I still have to pay the dorm and the extracullicular events. And I don't know if my parents would be able to take that, since it's such a expensive school, I know they'll have crazy yearly activity like going to other countries for all of the students or stuff like that. Even though that the scholarship it self has paid such a huge money for monthly tuition, still I don't know if I should take this chance. I feel stupid, really, but for once I just wanted to do something different from anybody else and just go out from my comfort zone, I think. I don't know, does that sound childish? Well, I am somehow late in puberty so yeah :) I'm hope I don't use any mean words in this and any advice is welcome.
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I don't understand why you think you need a scholarship for HS. I have never heard of it. Its college where it counts having a scholarship. If you are the average student, as you said, you will not be considered possibly for even college scholarships if you were interested. Until you are 18, you are a minor and under your parents care. You are not thinking this out, being away in another state, needing health care, and your parents are to do this all long distance and pay out of pocket for you to have a place to stay. Now if you said they won the lottery yesterday, then maybe they could swing it. Otherwise, if I were you, I would attend the local HS and think about what I want to do after I graduate. Before you think college for a white collar job and all the tuition that takes, forget getting a scholarship because chances are slight and if it happens great but don't count on it. Count on having to pay back all your tuition after you graduate and the cost of Universityes has risen higher and faster than anything else in the entire world. The cost of car, houses, rent, food, any thing, has not risen as high as getting college degrees. SO unless you have a burning desire to be a doctor, nurse, psychologist, lawyer or anything of that sort, you might consider a job to b ring in income without having a giant school loan to pay back. both my daughter and husbands from another marriage got their degrees and neither one is working in the field they got a degree in. My daughter was in medical field and though I have heard it said its the fastest growing job opportunity with needs of many positions to fill, apparently it is an outright lie or stretch of the truth or it may apply only to one state, not all 50. A blue collar job can pay the bills and if you decide after working a while this way that you really know what you want to do, lets say since you are more artistically inclined as am I or one of my kids, you may want to bring in money from a job while working on your art or whatever in your spare time, and see if you can make a name for yourself. If painting, and you end up in galleries with items selling to the rich who can afford it and it happens often enough, then you can quit your blue collar job and focus full time on expanding your art. I know that over the next few years, you will be pushed and prodder towards focusing on an expensive 4 yr college. Why pay a high tuition afterwards when there is a lack of job positions available and payments needing to be made on school loan. Most school loans are being paid off by folks taking on whatever job they can get, Taxi driver, delivery driver, salesperson, daycare worker, coffee barista, etc. all to pay off a loan for a job you never could get. Its a racket. If you want a clear perspective of the other options, then I suggest you watch the following video of interview with Mike Rowe actor of Dirty Jobs fame, who has a foundation to help people get through the shorter term college for blue collar jobs. Here it is:
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