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How your kids can get a scholarship
By Deena Waisber
-17,000,000 unclaimed scholarships
AT
www.studentawards.com
www.scholarshipscanada.com
-includes their
academic marks,
-hobbies,
ScholarshipsCanada.com doesn't ask for an address or
phone number.
Studentawards.com requests a parent's address for
scholarship-matching purposes.
Once the applicant is
registered, Studentawards.com sends the matches to a student's inbox on
the site; at ScholarshipsCanada.com, the profile is used to select
appropriate matches when the student searches for scholarships. "It's
convenient because everything is one place, and I did see a couple of
[scholarships] that I'd never heard of," says Edward Choi, 18, who
attends Sir Winston Churchill High School in Calgary and has been using
Studentawards.com, which will even send out reminders of scholarship
deadlines. ScholarshipsCanada.com plans to have an alert system in place
in six months.
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Some scholarships are based on academic performance and/or
financial need.
Twenty-one-year-old Alysha Sears, a fourth-year neuroscience honours
student at Dalhousie University in Halifax who has used
ScholarshipsCanada.com, had high school marks in the 90s. She was
awarded a $1,500 Oriole Scholarship for her first year, largely based on
her marks and financial need.
Find the best scholarship for you
You might be thinking your son is no academic genius, but there are
other types of scholarships that might better suit him. "It's important
to be well rounded," says Lauren Wallace, 19, a first-year arts and
sciences student at University of Guelph in Ontario, who landed seven
scholarships (four of which she found on Studentawards.com), including a
$16,000 Millennium Excellence Award. Lauren earned the Millennium Award
and other scholarships in part because she helped to found a food and
clothing bank for other students at her school, went to Kenya in the
summer to help build schools through Free the Children and was president
of the student council in Grade 11.
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