Scholarshipzone

If money for college is tight, some experts recommend taking on an apprenticeship while working on classes if you're interested in joining the skilled-labor workforce after graduation. According to an article appearing in the Hechinger Report, the strategy is currently working out pretty well for one-time armed robber and current Bates Technical College student Jesica Bush of Tacoma, Wash.
The news report outlines how the 30-year-old Bush was sent to prison for seven and a half years following her conviction at age 19.…

If you're hoping your college experience will include a stint in a fraternity, you may want to look at U.S. News and Report's list of the 10 colleges in the nation with the highest percentage of students in fraternities as tips for college enrollment.
Granted, some students view fraternities merely as organizations that throw parties to meet members of the opposite gender outside of the classroom.…

Actor and director of classic silver screen dramas like Quiz Show, A River Runs Through It and The Horse Whisperer, Robert Redford has joined forces with the Santa Fe University of Art and Design to provide college scholarship opportunities to promising creative students.
According to The Santa Fe Reporter, Redford will personally select which students he feels deserve one of these scholarships for college in pursuit of creative excellence.…

Giving back to your community through helping the disadvantaged or putting time into making your neighborhood a nicer place to live can lead to more than a personal sense of fulfillment. It could result in being awarded financial aid for college.
An article appearing on U.S. and Reports points to Scholarship America Dollars for Scholars, an organization with chapters throughout the country that looks at academic achievements and volunteering when it decides who to award a scholarship for college.…

More than 25 percent of young people are skipping the chance to receive a higher education for reasons other than not having enough money for college, according to a study newly released by management consulting firm McKinsey and Company. This information comes despite 2011 statistics from Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce showing that young people with at least a bachelor's degree generally make 85 percent more money in their lives than those with only a high school degree.…

By developing an algorithm that allows robots to navigate their way around various obstacles, 17-year-old Kensen Shi has been awarded a $100,000 scholarship for college from the Siemens Foundation, according to an article from the Associated Press (AP). The A&M Consolidated High School student told the news source that his invention could also be used in the development of driverless cars, and to create more naturally moving characters in animation and video games.…

According to data released by the Census Bureau in the spring, employed women are slightly more likely than men to hold college degrees. According to an article appearing on the ABC website, the agency states that 37 percent of the female workforce have earned at least a bachelor's degree, compared to 35 percent of men. The Census numbers indicate that the number of college-educated working women officially surpassed men in 2006.…

Almost every state in the country requires students to pass standardized tests in math and English to receive a high school diploma, and impressive scores never hurt students' chances to get scholarships for college. Meanwhile, the Brown Center on Education Policy has released a study that estimates that, by combining the estimated $65 spent on testing per student and adjusting for states not included in the study and spending anomalies, the nation spends a total of $1.7 billion per year implementing these tests.…

Often considered crucial for college enrollment and sometimes necessary for applying for a scholarship, SAT tests are no longer required at more than 800 institutions of higher learning in the U.S., according to research published by the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. The organization released an extensive list of schools that either don't require presumptive students take the SAT, or pay closer attention to other criteria when deciding whether or not to enroll a student.…

Because it costs substantially less money for college, online college courses may be becoming a more attractive option to people of so-called "Generation Y" born during the mid-1980s, according to a study newly released by Northeastern University.
A follow-up report from the Huffington Post states that almost all of the more than 1,000 study respondents felt getting a higher education was generally a good idea.…