Why I Want To Attend College

My mother has raised my brother and myself as a single parent since the divorce. She has also taken on the responsibility of taking care of her mother after some major health issues depleted her ability to care for herself. Our family has struggled financially with this one income issue causing difficulty to provide just the basic needs. My brother is currently attending Florida Atlantic University, and although my mother helps as much as she can, he has to obtain loans just to survive. I know that my mother will not have the ability to help me through college, so I am doing whatever I can do to eliminate the financial road block that is standing in my way to reach my career goal. Receiving a scholarship would help facilitate my ability to focus on my education instead of focusing on the ability to pay for

I am in a position where I am having difficulty finding the resources I need to finish my degree. I took about a year off from working to take care of my chronically ill father. In addition, I have recently been through a divorce and have a three year old child that I’m supporting. My income is not where it needs to be to say the least. I am also in a position where I don’t have a lot of federal aid in loans left to pay for school. A scholarship would help me to stretch the last of my aid to pay for my education. I would be putting a scholarship to great use and it would allow me to focus more on my education and be the best that I can be. I know that I will get through school one way or the other and that I will give back to Cox and the city of Springfield for taking a chance on me and helping me with my education. Springfield is my home and I plan on working as nurse at Cox for many years to come. A scholarship granted to me would help me to become a nurse and would be served back to the community through the skills that I will have gained through my education. I would be very grateful to receive a scholarship and would make sure that any scholarship granted to me was not wasted. I made the dean’s list fall 2014 and have been keeping good grades. I hope that Cox will consider be as a good candidate to receive one because I have great passion, have a passion to

I have been extremely fortunate to avoid many hardships. However I have faced a financially barrier, especially as I have set the goal to finance college without loans. My family is not poor, but we do not have enough money to put two women through university. I have taken the initiative to surpass this barrier by working and applying for scholarships. I started by attending community college first as it is less expensive. I quickly realized that the lower tuition was not enough and took a job at a grocery store deli. Most of my income has been placed into my savings. I have saved up a decent sum of money, but will still need help to pay for college. Now I am applying for as many scholarships as humanly possible. I have received scholarships

Well in order to describe about my need for financial assistance I am a person who came from a middle class family. My dad works as a lecturer and my mom is a homemaker. I am so happy to share that I was the only person in my family to pursue my graduate studies. For my first semester (fall 2016) it took really hard for my dad to pay for my tutution fee at Eastern because I havent been offered any online course. I have done 3 face to face subjects in my first semester which costed my tutuion fee high. I have also been offered with 4000$ scholarship per semester at Southeast Missouri State University for my masters program but I have applied transfer and came to Eastern for my graduate studies. When it comes to my sibblings I have an younger

Sunday comes again, and it's finally time to continue the weekly interviews with my grandpa. Before we began the interview, he showed me an in-depth family tree that a relative of ours had put together for our family. Being the tech savvy person that I am, I show him how to navigate around the application of our family tree. Then we began talking about our topic, fear.

Currently I live with my family so that I can save as much as possible to afford my college tuition. My brothers are autistic and so my family can’t afford to pay for my college tuition since all their funds are spent on my brothers’ treatments and care. I won a scholarship for 2014-2015 from the superintendent during high school. My tuition costs at Collin college are between $1300-$1400 a semester. During the first year at Collin college I was not employed because I wanted to focus on my studies but now I’m running out of funds and I have started looking for a job to cover for my tuitions bills. I need this scholarship so that I would not overwhelm myself in my job and neglect my studies. I want to stay in a good academic standing and I’m

Being the second of four children to attend college, my parents are not able to help each of us with the financial endeavors involved. To help fund my education, I worked hard in high school to earn scholarships, took on a job at the end of my senior year to pay for books and my bus pass, and continue to strive for excellence in college to maintain the requirements for different scholarships I have received. While I have been fortunate enough to receive scholarships, I have also had to work to pay for my textbooks, campus bus pass, online homework website fees, and laboratory and mandatory fees. I work an average of 25-30 hours a week at Jason’s Deli, while going to school full time. Earning this scholarship will help take some of that weight

College expenses are very high and cause great stress among a lot of incoming freshmen students to get all, if not most, of the cost paid for, including myself. This scholarship will help me to further my education at Missouri University of Science and Technology as a freshman and allow me to one day have a degree for a career that I love. This scholarship will allow me to experience university life without worry of major student loan debt. I hope to one day have a degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering so that I may design new ways of prosthesis. The scholarship would let me comfortably continue to expand my knowledge of my desired major. My overall life goal is to have a career I love and a life where I do

I got 99 problems and money is all of them. In other words, I don’t have the resources to pay for my college. I want to be able to pay for my college by myself. I don’t want my parents to be concerned about my college fees. Even though my parents work very hard, they have bills to pay, and feed my three siblings and myself. As a result, this doesn’t leave enough money for my parents. Sometimes, we just have enough money to buy food for ourselves and gas for our transportation. In addition,I work and I try to help my parents. Yet, some of that money goes into my saving for college. Still, it's not nearly enough to pay my first year tuition. Therefore, I’m applying for scholarship assistance in order for me to afford and obtain a higher

The idea that my parents are going to pay for my college on top of all that hurts me and because of this I know I want to look back on my education and have the satisfaction that I worked for everything I did. The financial burdens my parents already face, are the reasons why this scholarship is important to me. Rather than expected my parents to pay for my college or place myself in large debt I want to work for my future education. Working hard on my education has been my goal going back as far as seventh grade. Throughout high school, I have put in an extensive amount of effort working towards my future success and I hope that through my hardships and hard work I am able to succeed in finding the funding for my college

I’m far from rich, but I believe I have a bright future. I know I can go very far with college, however I’m not sure how I will be able to afford it. However, I won’t give up, because my mom and dad are disabled and can’t work. Two years ago my dad was making a lot of money and had my college money money saved up. I was going to be the first in the family to go to college, however he got hurt on the job, His company took his money. Over the past few years we had to use the college money just to stay off the streets. At seventeen, I take care of my mom, and dad. I also work several side jobs every week. With what the government gives, and what I make each month, we can barely even pay our bills. This is why I believe I should be chosen for this scholarship because I have been through the struggle. I’m motivated, and I have a plan to be successful.

To start, my family is not capable of supporting my education financially. My mother is physically disabled and unable to work. With whatever money she receives in order to take care of herself, she also helps to support my sister and her children. Achieving my aspirations for attending university would not be possible without the scholarships and federal loans that I was able to receive. Financial aid allows me to attend school and live in Athens without worrying about food and necessities while I study. I have been able to effectively utilize the financial aid that I have received, as well as money earned from working, to afford my school expenses. These scholarships were awarded to me not only because of my family’s inability to contribute

I am honored to have this opportunity to even apply for scholarships. I am would like to share the importance of scholarship assistance. To begin with, I am the first in my family to earn an associate degree from college. I was working full-time (breadwinner) ever since my mother and father separated. I was the one taking care of the major bills and going to school full-time. I know that I did great in school while working a full-time job but if I were to receive scholarship assistance my grades would be exceptional. Reason being, I wouldn’t have to work as much most of my time would go towards studying. My dream is to graduate from UNF as a Summa cum laude. In order for that to be possible I am in desperate need of financial assistance. Once

Growing up, college has always been necessary for me to succeed. However, now that the time has come to fill out applications and decide where I want to go, there is only one thing stopping me, the cost of it all. College unbelievably, is expensive for those of us who come from a single-parent household. I didn’t have the luxury of my parents or guardians setting aside money for me to use when I got to this point. We lived off every single paycheck, down to the last penny. Although that has never been in my control, filling out any and every scholarship I can, will make it a lot easier.

In the fall of my senior year, I am planning on applying to a variety of four year universities, but my absolute dream school would be Brown University. The school is located in Rhode Island and is considered to be a highly liberal university with a very flexible curriculum. I believe that the freedom and independence Brown offers would give me the chance to experience spiritual growth because I don’t necessarily know what I want to do in the future in regards to a career. However, I am aware that Brown is an Ivy League and that it is expensive. I come from a middle to lower class family and I know that without financial aid-there would be no possible way I could afford to attend the school of my dreams. After doing some research, I found