If you have graduated from your secondary education and are about to enter a college, with the marks of fulfillment happiness etched on your face, try to come to reality and realise that getting into a college isn't as easy as it sounds.
The preparations that are to be made to join a college need a lot of effort and can give you one load of a stress if you do not know how to choose between the available strategies.
Primarily, you must choose a course that you desire to pursue and then you should face the entrance examinations and then the most difficult part, the choosing of the school in which you wish to study.
You must not only consider your desire.
The standards of the school must also be considered.
The maximum stress is induced because of the amount of money that has to be spent for pursuing the course in which you are interested and to enter a good institution that has a good teaching standard.
Also, your parents' capacity to fund for your education must be considered most by you before deciding upon an institution.
But do not think that money or finances will be a hurdle for your pursuing of education.
Many scholarships are offered that are there to aid the financially challenged students.
There are many private organizations and public ones too, state and federal organizations, universities and colleges that offer many scholarships in many forms.
A scholarship is mainly a gift in the form of money which is granted on merits based on academics and skills of a student.
So the eligibility of a student should be considered too.
The Freshman Honour Scholarship is funded by organisations that award scholarships to many students who top their classes and maintain very good academic records and gain honours.
There may be a separate application form in which the requirements will come, however, there are many in which they do not.
There are Presidential scholarships too.
Most of the people who benefit from it are those graduating with honors.
Similarly, the salutatorians and valedictorians of good high schools can receive this scholarship.
Presidential scholarship is a renewable one and can be renewed for eight semesters, based on the results of annual reviews.
This grant covers half of the on and out of state tuition, though it does not cover the fees.
Similarly, it covers the tuition fees completely, including boarding and room.
The one and only requirement to be fulfilled by the student is that a 3.
0 GPA must be maintained.
No other application is needed.
In the mean time, the students who are not taken in Freshman Honor Scholarship can look out for the presidential scholarship and the committee governing the presidential scholarship grants selects people, not only by their academic achievements, but also by their character, creative and other skills like leadership and team work.
Students that enter Freshman Honor College may receive the application materials.
The application process evolves in the written application and then it is followed by the conversation in the campus with the director of a program or the representative of the committee and finally an on the spot essay.
The entirety of applicants has to submit fully complete applications to the director of the program.
Usually, mid January is set as the deadline for these and the school nominations and applications won't be receiver together.
The people who are selected for the scholarship shall be given a prior notice in about the end of January so that a visit to the campus can be scheduled and the interviews must all be completed by the first of March.
These are just a little number of the scholarships that are offered to a freshman who is entering a college.
There are many other similar scholarships and you may get a complete knowledge about them from websites.