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(Rev. July 15, 2007)
Helping students continue their education is one of our
major goals.
PLANNING
For a good over-view of your options after high school,
download the School Board's Post-Secondary Planning Guide from their site by clicking
here:
SCHOLARSHIP INTRO
Christopher Vuturo, author of The Scholarship Advisor
has the following tips for high school students who want to enhance the prospects of
earning a scholarship for college:
- Scholarships are not just awarded to A students and athletes
Scholarship eligibility can be based on work experience,
religion, ethnicity, residency, race, gender or your parent's work or military
background. We'd add area of study and high school.
Don't wait until your senior year. Choices made
throughout your high school career affect your prospects.
- Get in "scholarship shape"
Get involved in extracurricular and volunteer
activities. Keep records of your activities and supervisor's names and numbers for
future reference. There's a reason your parents are after you to work hard.
Consult guidebooks, websites, local organizations,
employers and the Yorktown Guidance office and teachers for leads.
Diligence and persistence pays. Your odds improve as
you improve your record and apply for more awards.
We're trying to pull together scholarship references.
Please let us know what we've missed. Here's what we've
been able to do so far:
National
Resources
County
Resources 
Yorktown-Specific Resources
Matching Gifts
In the works
Glossary of Financial Aid
Terms 
NATIONAL RESOURCES
- We recently obtained membership in a national non-profit
organization - the Council for Advancement and Support or Education (CASE) - that has
information from over 7,500 businesses with gift-matching programs to fund local
scholarships.
- To Search National Scholarship Databases:
Do your homework. Consult the Scholarship Scam pages
listed below, then
Prepare a resume to speed data entry
- Parents income
- GPA
- Heritage
- Cost of siblings college
- Search free sites first
- Determine if you’re comfortable with privacy policy
such as providing your contact information to potential donors.
- Be organized
- Start Early
- Review often
- Work with your Yorktown Guidance Officer! This may
probably first experience seeking a scholarship. But your YHS Guidance Officer
is a pro's with extensive experience helping others earn scholarships. Make them part of
your team.
What you’ll get:
- Scholarship description
- Due dates
- Requirements
- Contact
FREE SCHOLARSHIP DATABASES:
Soc.college.admissions – where participants answer
scholarship-related questions.
- Embark (www.embark.com)
- FastWEB (www.fastweb.com)
- One of the largest databases, with 400,000
scholarships updated daily. Ad supported.
- Financial aid Web guide FinAid (www.finaid.com)
-Good
information on scholarship scams (www.finaid.org/scholarships/scams.phtml)
- FreSch! (www.freschinfo.com)
- GoCollege (www.gocollege.com)
- Sallie Mae – (search.cashe.com)
- Government corporation that funds and services student
loans.
Very useful site with it's own scholarship database, and
other useful resources.
Selected Audiences
- Minorities –
- Children of U.S. Special Forces killed in action –
Fee Based Scholarship Services
-$15 to view targeted list of scholarship providers (Oct 99
prices).
COUNTY RESOURCES
- We scanned and distributed to all County Guidance Offices
the most recent list of local scholarships available from Arlington County
for easy access. (pdf format, takes about 15 minutes to download at 28.8 kbs)
- The Arlington Community Foundation's Scholarship
Application (pdf). See their site for details (www.arlcf.org/acf.htm).
- The School Board accepted the joint proposal of the Arlington High School
Coalition to create a web-enabled database of local scholarship opportunities. Here's
the link to the beginning of something big! Write your the Arlington School Board for
their support if you like what you see. If you know of other scholarships not listed,
please let them know.
Arlington
School Board Database of local scholarships
(http://158.59.252.20:591/s_s/scholarships/)
We salute the Arlington School Board's exciting efforts to
put this great new tool into the hands of our Arlington Scholars and the County's
professional Guidance Staff! This database of local scholarships promises to be a major
local resource. It will take some time for all the information available to be loaded, so
keep checking back.
For more information on each scholarship that is listed in
response to your search click on the text in the left column in the search-results table.
Our scholarships aren't listed, because they are so new
they are not adequately funded to permit an award.
YORKTOWN-SPECIFIC
RESOURCES
- The Patriot Funds:
We have established, & are promoting, a series of scholarship funds
associated with YHS - the Patriot Scholarship Funds:
Funds Administered by the Alumni & Friends of
Yorktown High School Inc.:
Memorial Fund in Honor of Astronaut David Brown, M.D.
YHS 74
Dr. David Brown died on February 1, 2003 when the Space
Shuttle Columbia was lost during re-entry after a successful 15 day mission in
Space. Those wishing to contribute to a Memorial Scholarship in his honor may do so
by sending a check payable to Alumni & Friends of Yorktown High School, Inc., with an
note indicating the purpose of your gift. Please provide your Yorktown Class
Information and your mailing and email address so we can provide you with a receipt for
your tax records of your deductible gift. Please let us know if you work for a firm
that matches charitable gifts (details below).
All contributions should be addressed to:
Alumni & Friends of Yorktown High
School, Inc.
P.O. Box 7698
Arlington, Virginia 22207
Attn: Dr. David Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund
Other funds can be created on request.
For a complete explanation, click here
Funds Administered by others:
o Yorktown High School Patriot Fund ($500
Scholarship)
Established in 1995 as a farewell gift to Yorktown by
retiring Director of Student Activities, Jim Allen and his wife Anita. Those wishing
to contribute to the fund are invited to do so through the school.
- R Scott Bates Memorial Scholarship (1 at $3,000) for
a graduating Yorktown High School senior with financial need to attend a Virginia college
or university.
Administered by the Arlington Community Foundation, 2525
Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. 22201 (703 - 243-4785) www.arlcf.org
in loving memory of Scott Bates, father of Lisa Ann YHS 97, Lori Ellison YHS 98 and Paul
Wallace Bates YHS 03.
o Brian Cottrell Memorial Scholarship for the Performing
Arts ($300)
Awarded in memory of Brian Cottrell YHS 89. to a senior who
has made outstanding contributions to the Yorktown community through the performing arts.
o Williamsburg Middle School Scholarship ($1,000)
Award sponsored by the Williamsburg Middle School Student
Council to a former Williamsburg student who has excelled academically as an outstanding
graduate of Yorktown High School.
o Yorktown Counseling Scholarship ($1,000 &
$1,500)
Award sponsored by an anonymous donor to recognize two
seniors who demonstrate financial need and also are the first in their family to attend
college, or have shown marked academic improvement, or overcome adversity during high
school.
It has proven surprisingly difficult to locate good
information on YHS-specific and local scholarships. If there are errors or omissions,
above, please email scholarships@yorktownalums.org.
- The David Charlebois [YHS 80] Memorial Fund at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University
David's parents would like any donations to go to a fund
that has been established in David's name at his alma mater, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University. The flyer we were given about it reads as follows:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has pledged its uniquely applicable resources, and
has created the David Charlebois Memorial Fund, dedicated to helping beat terrorism in the
air, (like a life-threatening disease), so that David shall not have died in vain. If you
care to participate, make checks payable to: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 S.
Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3900, Attn. Harry Jennings 386 226-6197.
- Yorktown Scholarship Database - An initial database of
YHS-specific, and local scholarships in MS Access format.
This database has been sent to the County to iinclude in
their Local Scholarship Database (discussed above).
Glossary of Financial Aid
Terms
FAFSA, COA, EFC, FSEOP. . .??? Do you know what these terms
mean? The world of financial aid requires an understanding of the terminology. This
section provides a glossary of more than 70 financial aid terms. Click here or surf to: http://12.47.197.196/schoolgrants/glossary.cfm
We are also working on:
- Funding the two merit scholarships established earlier this
Fall (see Matching
Gifts below to leverage your gifts)
- Making sure we've included all the Scholarships administered
by YHS.
Matching Gifts
- Looking for a way to increase your gift? Over 7,500
business have gift-matching programs for their employees. While specifics may vary,
generally the steps to have your employer match your gift are as follows. Please
note, verifying whether your employer has a matching program, you only are involved with
the first two of the following steps, we take care of the rest:
Step 1. Get a matching gift form from your employer
(usually from the human resources department)
Step 2. Complete the form, and send it along with a
donation
Step 3. The recipient certifies on the form that it
has received your gift and that it meets our guidelines for receiving matching gifts.
Step 4. We then return the signed form to your
employer
Step 5. Your employer verifies your eligibility and
ours and sends a check with its matching funds to us.
For more details on corporate employee gift matching
programs, click here to contact
the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for more information.
Then, push the Back key on your web-browser to return to
our site, and send us the name of your employer to check if they have a gift-matching
program, and it's general terms donations@yorktownalums.org.
If they do, we'll give you information about their program, and a contact within
your company to contact for more information and to get a copy of their matching gift
form.
To see what else is in store, see the Planned Giving Section of this
site. To get involved with our Scholarship efforts, please let us know.
Unfortunately for today's students, because we're so new,
we currently have only information to offer, but no money. We hope to change that in the
near future.
Interested in helping with Scholarships? Please email
scholarships@yorktownalums.org.
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