Success The Turning Point

Author(s): Rajendra Rakhecha
Publisher: Rajendra Rakhecha

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5. Scholarship Monkey.com: Scholarship Monkey.com claims their database provides students access to more than 1 million undergraduate, graduate, and professional scholarship awards worth in excess of $3 billion from greater than 4,000 sources. Like the other search engines in this article, they are committed to providing their service free of charge. Timely? Perhaps. Scholarship Monkey.com states that the scholarship database is continuously updated by the company's Scholarship Team to ensure you are receiving the most relevant and useful information." Unlike the other search engine sites, Scholarship Monkey.com did not provide specific timing for their updates. Private? No, unless you opt out from receiving information from third parties via E-mail or snail mail. Unique? Your scholarship search will be led by a talking monkey (er, chimp). 'Nuff said. Overseas Scholarships USIEF offers a wide range of exchange opportunities to Indian citizens in three main categories:
Student Awards to pursue a master's degree or attend a US university as a visiting student researcher, Scholars and Teacher Awards for academics, teachers and professionals to teach or conduct research in the US, and
Professional Development Programs for leadership and skill development. Some have good GRE scores, some have good Acads, Some have good leadership skills, some have good goals stated in Essays, etc. The point is, not everyone are perfect and scholarship committee looks at your scholarship application for MS or MBA as a whole and comes to a decision. As always, the scholarship you are applying to defines what they are looking for. You will have to read the requirements and what they need and present yourself accordingly. The whole idea is there are different deadlines for both. You have to clearly look for Financial aid vs Admission deadlines. For instance, look at General Fall deadlines for University of Houston Clearlake Scholarship Deadline, it is April 1 (http://prtl.uhcl.edu/portal/page/portal/FAO/Scholarships/Dollars_for_Scholars) But, the International Admission deadline is June 1.If you see, the scholarship deadline is like at least 2 months ahead of time. (http://prtl.uhcl.edu/portal/page/portal/ADM/Future_students/International Students Application Deadli nes) Key thing is you have to send your stuff before the scholarship deadline to be considered for the scholarship. Here is what worked out for me and it is recommended by many others in terms of application process to get into good schools. For specifics of Fall and Spring Admission planning you must read these articles: Sample schedule: Spring 2011 for applying to MS / MBA in USA with Deadlines (http://redbus.us.com/sample-schedule-spring-2011-for-applying-to-ms-mba-in-usa-with-deadlines/) Sample schedule: Fall 2011- When to apply for MS or MBA in USA? Deadlines? International Students plan (http://redbus.us.com/sample-schedule-fall-2011-when-to-apply-for-ms-or-mba-in-usa-deadlinesinternational students-plan/) Content from url - http://www.scholars4dev.com/6499/scholarships-in-usa-for-international-students/