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why can't you enter any academic scholarships/awards won? Aren't these taken into consideration?

My daughter has won numerous academic awards and has an academic scholarship to her independent HS. Yet there doesn't seem to be a place to enter these. Are these not factored in?

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Dartmouth - Need Blind Policy

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I'm a senior from Thailand who just got accepted to Dartmouth. Dartmouth was not a college that I wanted to go, but I submitted my application just in case. I was extremely surprised that I was ac …

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Scholarships

I am currently a junior in high school and will be a senior next year, my parents keep telling me to start applying for scholarships as soon as possible. They are telling me to apply for as many as I …

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Summer Program

Hi, I am a current freshman looking for a good summer program to do this summer. Something to do with business, stock investing, or international affairs. Thanks!

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Question about scholarships/financial aid

Hey guys, I'm a little confused about how financial aid works. On the "financial aid" section of one of the colleges I applied to, I received a loan. Is that it? No grant or anything? Are they gonna g …

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Looking for Scholarships

Hello! I am currently a high school sophomore with a 3.94 gpa with interests in majoring in Psychology and Communications. I want to start looking for scholarships now and applying for some now instea …

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What mindset will you recommend going into if you are trying to apply for scholarships at this time?.

I am a sophmore at Evans High School and currently looking and trying to receive scholarships.

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2 years ago
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Scholarships

Thanks

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2 years ago
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Establishing a startup at higschool

Anybody who is interested in establishing a startup at highschool, please DM me ?

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2 years ago
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Financial Aid

Due to some personal problems, I'm very late with my CSS profile and I still haven't submitted it as I'm not finished yet. I'm planning to send it in by Feb 1 but since it's way over the deadline I'm …

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100% need-based aid

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I applied to many schools that claim to offer 100% need based aid (Holy Cross, Skidmore, Northeastern, Boston College, Colgate, Smith, and Colby). I am pretty confident I will get into both Hol …

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2 years ago
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What is CSS Profile?

I feel like it's the same thing as FAFSA but answers on google were not really clear.

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2 years ago
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Scholarships

This might be a dumb question, but is it guaranteed that you will get a scholarship if you have a good SAT score (ex.1410) ACT score (ex.30) and GPA (ex.3.8)? And if you can get scholarships from this …

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2 years ago
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Applying for financial aid

Can you apply for financial aid after getting accepted to a need-blind school? Or do you HAVE to submit financial aid application with the rest of the application? I know need blind schools don’t care …

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Do colleges let you know before the decision notification date if your application is incomplete?

I applied for fin aid but submitted one of documents under the wrong name so it's still showing as "awaiting" on my checklist... I'd asked my parents and they told me to do nothing, and with decisions …

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Scholarships for International Students to go to Brown Pre-College Program.

I intend to apply to Brown's Pre-College Program, but I am not a US citizen nor do I go to School in the Us so none of the Scholarships apply to me. Would there be any scholarships available to me?

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2 years ago
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My counselor hasn't done the counselor recommendation or school report yet, is that bad?

The deadline for merit scholarships was December 1st for Claremont Mckenna, and I turned in my application on time but my counselor didn't add all the required info. I know they can turn things in lat …

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2 years ago
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Foster kids...

I am in foster care, my cps worker said i am award of the state, but does that also count for on-campus housing? Does it depend on the school what I can and can't do, being a foster kid?

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Common App teacher recommendations

I'm a senior and apply for colleges now. Should i submit my teacher recommendations to colleges that they are optional. I have really strong grades 4.0 with 4 AP's and 8 honors, and i have a really go …

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scholarships

are there any scholarships for international students?

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