My daughter is raking in the scholarships for her first year at the university. The best one she received is for four years totalling $56,000! This helps reduce the cost of the out of state tuition to just under in state tuition. Her 4.0 GPA and and high ACT score of 31 help qualify her for that one.
She is getting $500 from the Honors Program, and $1000 from an alumni assocation as a Leadership scholarship. Just today she received a letter in the mail from the art department offering $4500! The art department noted that her 'digital drawing skills show a sophistication that is unot usually evident so early on. The work shows a strength in print and graphic design.' How cool is that?!
At this point I think that leaves only $2100 for tuition plus room and board (which is just under $10K). I'm amazed and thrilled to say the least. 
I'm not sure how the veterans benefits would work if she has all these scholarships...would we get a refund and just stock pile the money for another year. If not, I guess it would be better to just wait to claim those at another time. I will be checking on this.
She will be double majoring in Art and Music. Freshman can only receive one scholarship from one department. This means no music scholarship, but there could still be a department scholarship, which both art and music are a part of. If we switch her major to Music as primary then the art scholarship would not be possible. My daughter did feel that her art is probably more scholarship worthy than her music audition...although I know the professor seemed impressed and happy with how she did.
I'm kind of on cloud nine with all this money flowing in!! It helps some of the outflows happening lately not seem like a big deal.
My Daughter's Scholarships
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That is wonderful! I know we rely on the scholarships that my daughters have received to defray their annual tuition. I am hoping that they do as well, if not better with offers from colleges.
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Do you know about the bus pass program? If she's going to the main state uni, she can get a bus pass which lasts an entire year. She can then use it to ride ANY bus in L. We've got CNG buses which run between the two main campuses - around 8 of them that are constantly going back and forth. She might just see me manning the bus booth at the welcome to state uni fair.
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