Winning Scholarships and Grants: Do I need a 4.0?

Winning Scholarships and Grants: Do I need a 4.0

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Hello my name is Lacey and I am a full time college student. Over the past year or so, I have gone from working two jobs, going to school full time, having no life and barley scraping by. To now only working about 10 hours a week and having all of my school expenses and most of my living expenses paid thanks to scholarships and grants. No I am not a straight A student and no I am not the next "basketball phoneme", instead I'm just another average student but I have found how to use scholarships and grants to make my college experience a little less stressful and not nearly as expensive. But enough

with me, and I would like to answer a question that I am regularly asked by other people about winning scholarships and grants.

Do you need a 4.0?

I wanted to share with you a common misconception when it comes to whether or not you qualify for scholarships. A lot of people tell me that if they don't have a 4.0 or they are not incredibly close to that area, that they won't qualify for the scholarship or grant. To state it plainly, it is not true.

The vast majority of scholarships and grants usually have a range that you need to be with in. Like they will say something like you need to have a grade point average of a 3.2 or higher to qualify. But these requirements usually are only applicable to merit based scholarships and grants.

On the other hand there are financially based scholarships and grants, also known as "need based scholarships or grants". These types of scholarships are solely based off your financial situation and usually don't have any type of GPA requirement. So you have many possibilities out there that don't require you to have a stellar GPA to get some free cash for college.

Say you have a 2.5 GPA or something, and you are worried about that affecting your ability to get scholarships or grants. My advice is to focus on your strengths, something you are really good at or you have a lot of passion for. Try hard in your scholarship cover letter to relate your passion with receiving this certain scholarship. Believe it or not there is someone out there reading everyone of those scholarship applications hat come in and if you show them that you are dedicated and passionate about succeeding more times than not you will be successful in acquiring some scholarships if your words are truly genuine.

Please don't think that you have to have this amazing GPA or be the next Einstein. If you show them you are dedicated for a certain path through college and show them how passionate you are at being successful in a particular field, then you will be surprised at how much money can come your way. Like I said before, there are a bunch of people reading your application and if they feel you are truly going to succeed if you receive this money they will be happy to give it to you.

So I hope this helps you on your way to winning some scholarships

Thanks a bunch and best of luck,

Lacey

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