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Scholarship Opportunities

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Scholarships

Are you looking for scholarships to help you cover costs next year? Here’s one for expats that you might not have heard about yet. The deadline is March 28th, so get your creative juices flowing!

Have you heard about our Expat Youth Scholarship? The Expat Youth Scholarship (EYS) is a philanthropic program sponsored by Clements Worldwide to award six scholarships each year to expat students from 13 to 21 years old.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of EYS, with over USD 100,000 donated during this time to help these young scholars complete their educational goals.
If you are an expat and have or know children between these ages, they could win up to USD 3,000.

Clements Worldwide encourages students living abroad to become cultural ambassadors, promoting cross-border understanding, friendship, and peace. This scholarship rewards efforts of young people around the world to live up to these goals.  This year, the Scholarship is looking to capture these experiences via any chosen visual representation (such as videos, photos and more). Students are asked a vital question: What piece of local community/culture has most impacted your life in such a way that you will always carry it with you, regardless of your geographic location?

Entries to this years’ edition may be submitted from February 28th to March 28th and, after the voting period, the winners will be announced on May 23rd. To learn more about this Scholarship visit www.facebook.com/expatyouth.

As always, we value you as a customer.  If you have any questions about the scholarship or your policy, please call us at 1.800.872.0067 or 1.202.872.0060 or email us at request@clements.com.  Thank you and have a great day. 

Best Regards,

Dan Tuman and Tarun Chopra
Co-Presidents

For more information about scholarships available to Foreign Service families (and even some for non-Foreign Service expats), check out this list which includes several due in the next few weeks at http://www.fsyf.org/Scholarships

The AFSA scholarships (most of which also require a creative submission) are due on the 15th of March.

The AAFSW has also announced a new scholarship for “Twice Exceptional Students.” This is an underserved category for scholarships, so I encourage you to apply if you qualify. More info at: https://www.aafsw.org/aafsw-2018-merit-scholarships/

Searching for Money

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Family Financial Aid Scholarships

You may have been saving up for years, but it’s likely that, when it comes to paying for college, you’d love to find a little bit of extra change in the couch cushions.

If you’re planning to go to college in 2018, hopefully you’ve already submitted your FAFSA for initial review. (If you haven’t, now’s the time! Schools allocate money until they run out, so the early bird gets the worm.) You should expect a report back from the Department of Education in 3-4 weeks with a number they like to call your “EFC,” your Expected Family Contribution. What you may not know is that schools are not obliged to give you enough funding to cover the rest of the cost of attendance (also known as your “need”). You may, in fact, have a gap between what they offer you, what you’re expected to pay, and what the total cost of attendance is, not to mention personal expenses.

Most schools haven’t sent out any financial aid offers yet, so you won’t really know what that gap might be, but for most families, even the EFC seems like a pretty big sum to come up with. You might be tempted to pay for a scholarship search service that will help you search for just a little bit more money to help cover the cost.

Sadly, most of those services are scams. Instead of paying for private scholarship help, parents and college-bound seniors should sign up for free search services such as fastweb.com, finaid.com, or collegeanswer.com. You can also check out other useful sites such as collegeboard.com, scholarships.com, and fafsa.ed.gov for more information about scholarships and grants.

It’s important to note, however, that some schools will count outside scholarships as meeting a portion of need, and not reduce your EFC. You should confirm with your college’s financial aid office as to whether they will first replace loan funds or their own grants with any scholarship money you find. Hopefully they replace the loans and your overall cost of attendance goes down.

Happy hunting!