When to look for college scholarships
HOW TO GET A FULL RIDE IN SCHOLARSHIPS IN 2020 | COLLEGE 101
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dates and welcome back to my channel and
today's video we're going to be doing a
scholarship talk and what scholarships
that I personally apply to to pay solely
for college and basically get a full
ride if you guys are here I'm assuming
you watched the previous video how I got
into UT Austin slash how I got into
college if you did not see that yet go
ahead and click the link right here
check that video out and come right back
over to this video but now that you're
here I'm assuming you watched the first
part of this college 101 series and
you're here to find out the T on what
college it's developed by step he'll
tell you guys all the details all the
nicks crannies T every single thing that
I did to get this money right so keep
watching so I'm not gonna tell you guys
every single scholarship I applied to
because that could go on for days
because I literally applied to so many
it's not even funny I lost count about
how many scholarships I applied to but I
am gonna tell you guys the big ones and
more of the main ones and then like what
you guys can do to kind of find other
scholarships and within your area and
also I'm gonna touch on the scholarships
that I apply to that are solely UT base
for anybody out there who are trying to
get into UT and look for scholarships
pertaining to the college that I'm going
to the number one scholarship I apply to
which many of you already know is of
course the Taco Bell live mas
scholarship this scholarship gave me
twenty five thousand dollars that is its
largest price obviously if you apply you
can either apply for the 5,000 to 10,000
and then there's twenty five thousand
when applying I definitely did not think
I was gonna get the scholarship I was
just kind of just like you know what
I've applied to a thousand scholarships
when I apply to this one and I loved it
because it was an essay based it wasn't
um oh you have to have a GPA requirement
this does not know what I loved about to
live my scholarship is it was solely
just
based but if you really want to know
more about the scholarship go down to
description box below check out that
video and come back over here I do love
the scholarship it's a great scholarship
it's open to anybody and everybody if
you feel like you have any passion that
you want to share number two the second
scholarships that I was getting more so
and heavy basis is mostly local
scholarships so wherever you live that
may be in Texas Houston New York
wherever wherever you go there's
definitely definitely definitely local
scholarships even if it doesn't like
seem very clear or it's not open to the
public or the community it trust me it's
a Google search away
it's a ask a friend away it's literally
there just look for it one time I was
just talking to a senior and she was
like yeah I applied to a lot of like
East Texas scholarships and I was like
whoa I didn't I didn't know that was a
thing and she's like yeah that's like a
whole website and I was like oh and
there it is
so definitely wherever you're around
maybe look within the community if you
don't know and you're just like well I
just don't know go to a teacher go to an
advisor go to a principal somebody who
will just give you a little bit more
information and usually your high school
will give a lot of information within
like a counselor's office or a
scholarships office where whatever you
have provided to you if you don't have
all that you can definitely just ask
around in community see if there's any
like foundations giving scholarships
anything like that just within the
community for like maybe your school or
maybe where you live or so on so forth
next of course it's an obvious one but
if you do play a sport it is very
possible to get into UT or get into
college in general playing your sport I
definitely did not I played sports but I
definitely knew I didn't want to do that
in college so that's not really a route
I went but I do know that the footlocker
scholarship is a theme and that's
basically settle towards high school
seniors who play sports and their
passions and giving them a scholarship
for that so that is something that I did
apply to I didn't get it but it's
definitely an option for people who play
sports and are
something like that there is also the
coca-cola Foundation Scholarship I
applied to that one as well
that is a great scholarship I personally
didn't get it but a lot of people that I
know that did get it were able to go on
like I think it was like a networking
trip or something like that but
basically if you get the scholarship
it's like a it's like a networking thing
so like they could bring you two people
I think they I flew my friends out to
like Chicago or something like that
don't know quote me but it was it was
something it was something where like
they were flew out somewhere and met the
foundation and all the rest of the
people who received the scholarship that
year and I thought that was super cool
another scholarship that works that way
is Austin to live my scholarship but
since that so many people are awarded
the scholarship it's kind of competitive
who gets to like kind of float out to
California or different places like that
so those are things often definitely
definitely look into and all that
information will obviously be in the
description box below another
scholarship is pertaining to UT you can
definitely apply to first-generation
scholarship that could go on at other
schools as well but I know that UT has a
specific scholarship for students who
are attending college for the first time
on first-generation terms that basically
you are the first generation within your
family to attend a four-year university
and that's a really really good
scholarship
it's definitely supportive to a lot of
people so I would definitely say look
into that also if you're going to UT I
would definitely look into the
university leadership scholarship I
don't know if that's actually a pliable
but if your application does kind of
show that you meet financial need and
you also have been as represented as a
leader on your high school campus or
something like that or in your resume I
know that they definitely will recommend
you for that scholarship and that's a
great scholarship to because it gives
you $500 a month that's really really
great for someone who's paying rent or
somebody who just might need the money
for books or other things like that
another way that i partly dip funds my
college is financial aid your parents
have a certain income to house ratio etc
etc then you definitely have a chance of
receiving a Pell grants or being awarded
financial aid to get financial aid you
do have to fill out a FAFSA basically a
FAFSA is something that you fill out
put in your parent
income your parents marital status
basically what your support system is
see how many people they're taking care
of and just kind of generates an amount
of money in that you could potentially
receive if you meet that need there's so
much more that goes into financial aid
as well obviously that that doesn't
include people who are maybe like
adopted or people who are in foster care
are people whose parents are in the
military there's a lot of different
things like that that can kind of tie in
to all that and so I definitely would
say if you're interested in all that go
over to fafsa read up on the
requirements and apply and see if you
are eligible to receive some financial
aid so those are the top few things that
I personally did to funds my college
career but I know that there's so many
more like so many more scholarships out
there you guys and I'm gonna put a lot
of them down in the description box
below I personally could have talked
about them all in this video because
this video would have been like 10 years
long but I did get on the main ones that
actually helps me fund UT and paying off
all of college with no loans no debt and
you can do the same thing if you just
really just look literally look the best
thing I did was every day after high
school I would come home and I would
apply it to two scholarships and I
promise you it is not hard to do just go
on Google and say high school
scholarships scholarships for an
entering college student something like
there are there is money out there so
much for people to take and nobody wants
to put in the work and actually just a
look for the scholarships and apply for
them like everybody just wants it to be
like an easy thing I'm sorry if you
really want the money you gotta put in
the work of course nobody likes sa
scholarships put those are the ones you
got to apply for and the way I kind of
finesse the system with that is I wrote
like a main general essay kind of like a
explaining my life and what I've been
through and then I wrote like a more of
an educated essay kind of like what I
want to do through college where I want
to go goals and all that stuff and what
I achieved in high school yeah I got my
English teacher you can get anybody it's
kind of like look over it critique it
corrected and those are like the two
general templates scholarship essays
I would use when applying scholarships
cuz scholarship essay questions are kind
of all generalized and kind of like oh
why should you get this scholarship or
what would getting the scholarship mean
to you
blah basically they always say the same
thing and then there's those few that
just want to be so specific like if you
got this scholarship how would that
impact your health or something like
that I don't know basically those were
the scholarship essay templates that I
use and then I would kind of change it
up for each individual scholarship I
applied to and that in itself just took
some load off my soldiers so that I
didn't feel like I was writing a new
essay for every single scholarship I
applied to it kind of felt like I was
just tweaking an essay I already wrote
and then just sending it through and
that definitely helps me get through a
lot of scholarships and apply to a lot
of scholarships in a timely manner one
thing I would say is if you are
researching scholarships and you're
looking at deadlines and you're waiting
and you're like oh I see the scholarship
I want to apply to it but the deadlines
not for like another month so I'll just
like wait
honestly best thing I did was I had a
notebook or some people can do an excel
if you like to do like things more
online but basically what you should do
is have a notebook or have something
where you can refer to if all the
scholarships you want to apply to or
that you're eligible to apply to or that
you're interested in and then have their
deadlines because that'll kind of help
you navigate what scholarship you should
applied to over the other like okay this
scholarships deadline it's not for like
another two months
this scholarship deadline is next week
you know so that kind of help you
prioritize and not get your scholarships
kind of mixed up and when it comes to
scholarships and recommendations I
definitely feel like if this is
scholarship you want to apply to and
you're like I'm used to apply to this
scholarship right already know you wanna
plug in scholars should definitely
straightaway start looking for
recommendations start looking for people
to like write you those recommendations
honestly if you really bring the outside
you know stuff like that the junior year
I just asked one of my favorite teachers
and I was like can you write my
recommendations and she was like yes
and I think she was like my English
teacher so honestly if you're really
like you're on your stuff like that
honestly just find that teacher that you
this will be your go-to for
recommendations like this is my teacher
I will ask you for recommendation and
they will give you that recommendation
fist definitely do that it definitely
takes another load off of you same thing
maybe it'll be better if you can get to
teachers so maybe like one that's more
of like a counselor or academic advisor
and one that's more of a teacher if
you're in high school you definitely
probably already have one but if you
don't I would say as soon as possible
get started on making your resume
because it is so annoying applying to
all these scholarships and they're just
like what activities did you do in high
school what award did you win in high
school
blah blah blah did you have a job all
that stuff it just gets so tiring trying
to manually always fill it in and then
honestly sometimes you can forget some
stuff especially like way back freshman
year if you're like a senior and you're
just like I don't remember like half of
the stuff I did back then like so
definitely as you're going through high
school write down maybe like oh I
volunteered here or oh you know I played
this board for a week or something you
know this cannot keep up keep on track
with things that you're doing and then
have it on a resume preferably to where
you can just send it to those
scholarships or if they want it manually
put in you ask something you can refer
to that is definitely gonna make the
load of applying the scholarship so much
easier but yeah you guys those are a few
tips and tricks and the little finesse
is that I definitely did whenever I was
applying the scholarships from college
and I really hope that they help you
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