In this post, I will be discussing scholarships for average students that are available out there. As we all know, not every student that desires to attend college is a brilliant, straight-A student that is immensely involved in extracurricular activities. Some of you are students that manage to get by in school with decent grades, but lack that “shine” that gets the valedictorians accepted into elite universities and endless scholarship awards.
For the more “average” student that is looking for financial aid scholarships to help pay for college. Believe it or not, scholarships for average students actually do exist, and there are quite a few of them out there. These scholarships usually don’t include high GPA’s as one of the requirements, given that you are an “average” student. However, that doesn’t mean that brilliant students with high GPA’s and the rest can’t apply. These scholarships usually use criteria, such as community service and essays to determine who the award will go to.
Thus, if you plan to apply to scholarships for average students, you must be sure to be involved in community and extracurricular activities and spend plenty of time on your application essays. In fact, your scholarship application essay will be the key to winning this sort of scholarship. That is the chance where you will really have to chance to stand out and show the scholarship committee who you are. Even if you are an average student, if you put enough time and effort into the essay, you will still be able to stand out from the applicant crowd and shine, which means you will have a great chance of winning the scholarship.
Dec 16, 2009
