The Prairie Meadow Scholarship

Receiving this scholarship will be really helpful and will relieve a lot of stress for me financially.

If I am award the funds I plan on using it to help pay for the textbooks I need in different courses. Textbooks can be very expensive, and I have spent on average $900 dollars this year on textbooks. This scholarship would help lift another financial burden off my shoulders. I would also use the funds to help pay back my student loans. My goal is to finish college debt free and this scholarship would help me to achieve that goal. If I am award the scholarship all the funds will be used towards my

This scholarship would greatly aid in my ambition to become a Dental Hygienist. With it, I will be able to afford to attend the University of Arkansas in Fort Smith and to provide myself with the lifestyle that I want. It means that I will make my parents proud that their child has achieved her life goal.

I am very interested in pursuing a college degree and earning the Prairie Meadows scholarship would help me greatly on the path to my future. Receiving this scholarship would make it more feasible to attend the school I would like to attend. Drake university is a private college so it is more expensive than other state schools. I want to go to drake because I really enjoy the trumpet professor and facilities Drake has. This would help provide me with the things I need to be successful in a music major.

These Scholarships could truly help me in a great way. Both my sisters have been in college for the past two years, one being in it for four. It has caused some cut backs to be done over the past years. Along with that, my family has gone through many financial issues and setbacks. With this scholarship, it could help me to lessen my thoughts

Going to college has been a dream of mine growing up. I am the first ever in my family to go to college but figuring out how to pay for it has been a challenge. I desire to achieve my academic and career goals and this scholarship can help me succeed in my journey.

Receiving a Phi Mu Foundation scholarship would help ease the burden of tuition, which would provide a cushion of relief towards pursuing my academic goals. As a graduate student all of the money I earn at my assistantship serves as my only source of income during the academic year. In addition to paying all of my monthly living expenses, I am also paying both my undergraduate and graduate student loans. I am financially independent and making sure I have enough money for tuition is stressful. Receiving this scholarship would allow me to pursue graduate school without worrying about my tuition.

I should be the recipient of this scholarship because I have worked hard throughout my high school career so that I could be accepted in to the college of my choice and pursue a career in nursing. Since I have been accepted to my chosen college, I am now trying to pay for my college education with the fewest amount of student loans possible. With the help of this scholarship I would be able to take some of the stress of paying for college off of my parents and I.

I will be the first generation in my family to attend college. a post-secondary education is something that my family and I cannot afford even with the salary that we are gaining now. I'm a person that believes in education since I was little in Haiti where I had to pay for k-12 education and that brought me to really appreciate education and to not take it for granted. I want to become a civil engineer and architect to build houses and bridges around the world, one day I want to open my own firm and to help build houses for the unfortunate. This scholarship would help me a lot because I don't want to be a student that takes loans and become in so much debt that I cannot pay back when I finish college. Through this scholarship, I would be

I will use this scholarship to assist me in paying for my hardback college books. I see these as a necessity compared to online books because I learn better when I have the material physically in my hands. Online books can be very convenient, but that is not the best way I learn. College book fees are raising and are very pricey these days, especially with going into a nursing major, which is why this scholarship would help me a ton to reach my true learning potential.

The formal definition of a community, is a group of people living in the same vicinity while having a common characteristic(s). However a community is much more than that, a community is a place that everyone can benefit and gain from people around them, as well as learn from experiences that they have faced and share it with others to avoid the same mistakes. In adittion to that, it is also a place where you can count on in times of trouble and dire need.This philosophy of a community is what allows individuals and eventually groups of people to be better off and achieve their goals while helping others in the process. If selected for the Forty Acres Scholars Program I hope to contribute my time, energy, and brain power to the essential scholar

school through volunteering at cancer walks, the hospital, teacher assistant, and the many community events through band. This scholarship would tremendously decrease college cost and help support my mother and myself pay

Receiving this scholarship would assist me in my post-secondary career because it would allow me to focus on my studies, rather than having to dedicate the limited free time I will have, to working as much as possible. One of my main concerns for my education are my finances. Given that I am coming

This scholarship would mean a lot to me, because I would be the first out of my family to graduate college and I was the first to graduate high school out of 3 generations. My father was a Marine for 10 years, he choose a different path instead of going to college or finishing high school. He joined the war overseas to serve his country and I am proud of him. He always told me to never join any branch because he saw a future for me that he wanted me to invest in an education and better myself in everything I do. My brothers and sister chooses horrible paths and yet I was different than the rest of the family. I wanted my mother and father proud of me and I wanted my country to be proud of me. Instead of doing drugs, drinking and partying. I was the odd kid growing up that invested myself into books and dreamed of the endless possibilities that I can become. I thought different jobs of what I can do to help my community and not fall into the evil path as my brothers and sister did. Dad always told me that I was his shining star, I didn’t really understand what was going on with family until I got out of high school. Drugs and alcohol can really screw up peoples ' lives. I am living proof that you can choose the right path to become a better citizen.

I plan on attending Loyola University or Valparaiso University who both have cost of tuition at a staggering $36,000 a year alone. My family and I would benefit greatly from this scholarship because it will allow us to take a burden off our shoulders financially. My family started planning early for my education, creating a Indiana 529 College Savings Plan and contributing money into CD’s for my schooling. This alone is not enough to pay for the high cost that it is to attend college. If I were to receive this scholarship I would use it to pay for my high tuition costs. Whatever my family and I can not finance, I will have to take out student loans.