I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture obtained from the University of Malawi. I would like to study a Masters Degree now but have not secured a scholarship. What should I do. Please help.
Education is the best thing you could ever have in this world. Learning different things in this world will give you a big pleasure. It is nice to know that you are familiar with your surroundings.
As long as you have a sufficient learning, other people cannot fool you. However, it is not that easy to have an education. You have to enroll first in an institution or somebody who is professional enough to discuss certain matters.
Sending someone in school is also hard obligation.
It is not easy to send your children to school. Especially in terms of financial needs. Parents do not know where to get the sufficient amount of money they need to finance their children’s education.
Parents are very thankful of the institutions and organizations offering scholarships especially for deserving high school students. They are much beset with financial problems that these institutions offering such scholarship programs for high school students are a great help to them.
Indeed these scholarship programs have an objective of helping people who are really in need of assistance to finance their children’s education.
Before you could avail the scholarship, make sure you have excelled in academic subjects and extra curricular activities during your elementary years. This is one of the criteria you need to pass in order to avail the scholarship.
Once you are already an honor student during those days, it will not be difficult for you to avail of the scholarship. Many high school scholars are honoree during their elementary years.
On the other hand, high school level is really difficult and different compared to their elementary years.
When your child enters the high school level, many things need to be paid. It is too expensive to send a child in high school. The very option for this is to get your child a high school scholarship so that he/she can pursue the studies and dreams he/she wanted.
High school scholarship will be a great help for a family especially to the one who is spending money like the parents. It will also make your parents proud that you are a scholar, as well as yourself.
Scholars are more determined to study in order to retain their scholarship and not let their parents disappointed. Scholars want their parents to be proud to them.
Being one of the scholars in your high school years is something to be proud of. Out of the millions of high school students all over the country that are dying to be a scholar, you are one of the lucky students to avail the scholarship.
There will be a lot of offer inside your school once you are a scholar. Most of the time, scholars are the main priority of the school rather than the regular students.
High school scholars have many responsibilities to fulfill. It also gives more pressure in terms of their studies compared to those who do not have scholarship.
Being a high school scholar, you should excel in both fields of academics and extra curricular. Missing either one of this may affect your grade and make you loose your scholarship.
Therefore, what are you waiting for! Study hard now and get a scholarship in order to assist you in achieving the bright future you have been dreaming of.
Before you apply for Coca Cola scholarship, here are the things you should know:
Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation programs
There are two types of Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation programs:
· 2-Year Colleges Scholarship Program
· Scholars Program for high school seniors
1. 2-Year Colleges Scholarship Program
· Eligibility
Permanent residents or U. S. citizens;
Has a minimum of 2. 5 GPA during time of nomination
Has a minimum of 100 hours of community service within the period of 12 months before the nomination; with a plan to enroll in at least 2 courses through the next term at a 2-year degree granting institution.
This type of scholarship is given to 350 eligible students planning to register in any credited two-year institutions anywhere in the country. Each scholarship is worth $1,000 to utilize for their tuition and educational expenses.
2. Scholars Program for high school seniors
· Eligibility
To become a Coca-Cola scholar, the applicant must be a high school senior in any school throughout the United States who can meet the requirements. Applicants are given 1 of 250 four-year merit-based scholarships. The applicant must submit his application from September up to the last day of October in his last year in high school. The person should not be a high school graduate before he/she applies.
· Requirements
To become a Coca-Cola scholar, you must be:
A U. S. National; U. S. Citizen; Temporary Resident; U. S. Permanent Resident; Asylee; Refugee; Humanitarian Parolee; or Cuban-Haitian Entrant;
Presently enrolled as a high school senior and anticipates to graduate at the end of the school year during the same academic year when he or she made his or her application;
Has a minimum of 3. 00 GPA at the end of the junior year in high school;
Has a plan to pursue degree from an accredited U. S. college institution ;
A Coca-Cola scholar must not be grandchildren or children of officers, owners or employees of The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola bottling companies, or other Company subsidiaries or divisions.
· Submitting Application
High school senior can apply his or her application during between September 1 and October 31. He or she can apply online.
· Scholarship worth
Each year, Coca-Cola awards 250 senior students with a merit-based scholarship. 200 of these are awarded with 4-year $4,000 scholarships ($1,000/yr for 4 years). The remaining 50 are awarded with 4-year $20,000 scholarships ($5,000/yr for 4 years).
Application process
The Coca-Cola scholarship program has preliminary application process that only requires online application. One problem here is that, there are fewer spaces to mention your activities.
