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Weird College Grant
For people looking for grants, scholarships and other financial assistance so they can attend university, college or other postsecondary schools, these students sometimes have difficulty finding sufficient funding. If a person does not fit into categories such as low income, above average or outstanding academic standing or a minority, finding funding can be difficult and frustrating. Although it may seem difficult knowing where to look, there are numerous bizarre, weird and wacky college grants available, giving some students the recognition they are looking for.
One of the most unusual grants available now is the Sammy Award, which is searching for a person with the best 'milk mustache'. Sponsored in conjunction with USA Today, the 'got milk' campaign awards seventy-five hundred dollars to the person with awesome milk mustache and noteworthy leadership qualities. The Duck Brand Duct Tape Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest is another interesting scholarship where a couple wear a suit and dress fashioned out of duct tape to their prom. To get a scholarship for college requires submitting your duct tape outfits designs.
Numerous other grant opportunities are weird and unusual and most people have never heard of them. Because they are not well known, there is normally less competition unlike the more common, merit-based, need-based grants and scholarships. You may be able to qualify for a weird college grant but you do need to do some digging to find them.
The John Edgar Thompson Foundation Grant provides financial aid to the daughters of railroad workers who die while employees for the United States railroad. This foundations goal is to help the daughters grow into worthy young adults and help the surviving family. Girls are encouraged by the foundation to adapt effective work habits and continue their education career as far as her interests and capabilities permit, to acquire a more fulfilling, richer life.
Offered to students at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, the Alice McArver Ratchford Scholarship is very unusual. Some of the requirements to become eligible for a grant include demonstrating financial need; living on campus; be and undergraduates, and submit their FAFSA. Now for the weird part of the college grant, they cannot have a car nor be married or engaged. A very weird college grant is the Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest. As unbelievable as it may sound, this is actually a real scholarship. A fifteen hundred dollar award goes to the secondary school student that can do duck calls with flare. There are other prizes for duck callers that did not win first place. The third runner-up gets two hundred dollars, the second gets three hundred dollars and the first gets five hundred dollars in grant money. Contestants in the contest have ninety seconds to prove to the judges that they are great at duck calling.
The Tall Clubs International Scholarship offers a grant worth up to one thousand dollars to applicants that meet the minimum height requirements of five feet ten inches for women and six foot two inches for men.
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