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Guide to Online Schools Study Abroad Scholarship

Guide to Online Schools provides a new type of financial aid resource with its unconventional scholarship program. Instead of choosing applicants based on the usual measures of success -- GPA, SAT scores, community involvement, etc.-- our scholarship program rewards students for their natural creativity and analytical thinking.

To provide our judges with a true understanding of each applicant, he or she must answer four open-ended, personal, and thought-provoking questions. The students whose responses are the most persuasive, compelling, and well-written, as judged by our panel, will be awarded the scholarship prize.

About the Scholarship

Who?

The Guide to Online Schools Study Abroad Scholarship is for students who are enrolled in a study abroad program for the 2009-2010 school year.

Applicants must be legal residents of the United States, at least 16 years old, and enrolled in an accredited post secondary academic institution. There are no minimum requirements regarding the duration of travel.

What?

The scholarship application includes 4 questions. Each question must be answered in 200 words or less.

One winner will be chosen based on how compelling and persuasive his/her answers are.

$2000 will be paid directly to each winner's school for tuition fees.

When?

Entries must be submitted by
01/01/2010 (05:59 AM PT)

The winner will be announced and notified by
01/15/2009

How?

  1. Read the 4 questions below.
  2. Write a compelling response for each question.
  3. Submit your responses using our online application form
  4. Wait to find out if you are the winner!

Questions for the Guide to Online Schools Study Abroad Scholarship

  1. You are given a backpack, your passport, and a free ticket anywhere in the world. Where do you go, and what do you put in your backpack?
  2. It is one month prior to the due date for your study abroad deposit - $15,000 for your ticket, tuition, and study abroad program package- and you have no money. What do you do to come up with the deposit? To what lengths are you willing to go?
  3. You are being sent abroad to accomplish a great task (can fall outside the realm of academia). What have you been sent to do, and why is this significant to you and/or mankind?
  4. Relative to other people applying for this award, why do you think you deserve the scholarship?