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Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B) The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B) examines students’ education and work experiences after they complete a bachelor’s degree, with a special emphasis on the experiences of new elementary and secondary teachers.

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Use the data in this dataset for statistical purposes only. To proceed you must signify your agreement to comply with the above-stated statutorily based requirements. FinAid. Scholarships Generally, scholarships and fellowships are reserved for students with special qualifications, such as academic, athletic or artistic talent.

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Awards are also available for students who are interested in particular fields of study, who are members of underrepresented groups, who live in certain areas of the country or who demonstrate financial need. The best way to search for scholarships and fellowships is to use a personalized search, like Fastweb scholarship search, that compares your background with a database of awards.

Only those awards that fit your profile are identified as matches. There are several free scholarship databases available online. Avg. Ordinary students often ask whether there are any scholarships available to students who don't have an A average.

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This page lists some scholarships for average students. Although these scholarships don't require a high GPA, they do require excellence in a non-academic area. Every scholarship sponsor is trying to find the students that best fulfill their selection criteria. If the selection criteria don't depend on academic merit, then they might depend on athletic or artistic merit, community service, extracurricular activities, or on skill in a non-academic discipline. The winners are always the students who best reflect the goals of the scholarship sponsor. Of these scholarships, the David Letterman scholarship is the one most often cited by news media. The following list of scholarships is intended to be representative, not comprehensive.

Unusual. This page lists some of the more interesting, esoteric and unusual scholarships FinAid has encountered.

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The scholarship for left-handed students is the one most frequently mentioned by news media, but the duct tape contest is gaining in popularity. To find other scholarships for students with specific interests or abilities, see the profile-based aid section of FinAid or search the FastWeb scholarship database. See also the list of cancer scholarships. The list of scholarships is organized according to some of the more common subcategories of unusual scholarships, such as physical characteristics, creativity, last name, sports, field of study, the final frontier, animal appreciation, food-related, activity-related, good works, what you don't do, twins and legacies.

Physical Characteristics Scholarship for Left-Handed Students The only scholarship for left-handed students is the Frederick and Mary F. Scholarships & Grants. No-Essay Scholarships Doesn’t Mean No Work Writing essays can be a daunting task, and even more intimidating when you’re wielding your pen to win college scholarships.

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