Scholarships

[arbellason55]

So I figured I'd ask here, what's out there for scholarships in the networking field, I've spent quite a bit of time looking around and I am not finding a lot and what I do find I usually don't qualify for. It's kinda maddening considering I've taken a lot of harder classes such as AP Chem, Calc and English and have done reasonably well in them, note I am in the top 11.5% of my class. The one's I've seen usually require you to go to an accredited 4 year school which I am not interested in doing as the Tech school I'm set to go to has a really good program that has had a 100% employment rate over the past couple years. Or need you to be a minority or be from a poor family (Not poor but not exactly rolling with money considering my parents want to go back to school too). Suggestions?

[Lurick]

Are you just looking for scholarships in the field of networking or are you also looking for general scholarships as well? There are tons out there that you can apply for to go towards general education and college in general that don't care what field you go into. Are you looking to go to a community college or a tech school like Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, etc.?

[arbellason55]

I'm looking for ones more so leaning towards networking or ones specifically for tech school as I've already filled out a ton for general stuff. I'm going to Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College.

[Mr.Humble]

36 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

top 11.5%

Interesting metric.

[AshleyAshes]

No one on this forum can really help you here.  This is an answer that would vary greatly nation, by state/province, by school, by what criteria you may fit from economic situation to family situation to parental military service to academic achievement to athletic achievement.  There's just way too many bases to cover.

 

You need to speak to academic advisers familiar with your region and schools of interest.  I suggest starting with your guidance counselor and having them give you info and point you in more directions.

[VerticalDiscussions]

Usually its always about financial status in public schools. For private or more exclusive universities, the evaluation of grades is the number 1 consideration, with financial status being 2nd.

[AlwaysFSX]

55 minutes ago, vojta.pokorny said:

Interesting metric.

That's the "there's the top 10% but I'm nearly there!" metric.

[arbellason55]

 

1 hour ago, vojta.pokorny said:

Interesting metric.

That was the result of one B , 

26 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

 

You need to speak to academic advisers familiar with your region and schools of interest.  I suggest starting with your guidance counselor and having them give you info and point you in more directions.

Yeah I've tried that and they are pretty damm useless at finding stuff.