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  • Douglas Elliman Scholarships at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate

    Douglas Elliman Scholarships
    Douglas Elliman Scholarships

    Prudential Douglas Elliman, a large New York residential real estate brokerage firm, has pledged $100,000 for a real estate scholarship fund, to be known as the Douglas Elliman Scholarship, to the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate. These are little known scholarships simply since it was so recently established.

    The real estate scholarship funds, the first ever to be donated to the institute from a residential real estate firm, will be available to students who excel academically and who have established financial need in the fall semester of 2012. The students, known as Douglas Elliman Scholars, will be selected based on the following criteria:

    1. Successful completion of over 24 credit hours.
    2. Credit hours must be applied to a Masters Degree in Real Estate or Real Estate Development.
    3. Students must excel academically, receiving good marks.
    4. Students must establish financial need.

    No more than two students will be selected to receive this little known about scholarship in real estate studies, making it a highly competitive award.

    The Douglas Elliman Scholarships at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate will spread out over five years, awarding $20,000 per year to be shared between the Douglas Elliman Scholars.

    The New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate was founded in 1967 and educates around 600 full and part-time college students each year and has produced 2,500 degree holders in the real estate, real estate development, and construction management fields. The institute was established after prominent New York City real estate leaders encouraged the university to provide academic programs that would specifically cater to students seeking to enter the real estate industry as professionals.

    In response to the success of the Schack Institute of Real Estate, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s CEO Ms. Dottie Herman awarded the scholarship stating, “We are so honored to be working with NYU-SCPS to invest in the future of our industry and give back to our community by way of this unknown scholarship. The Douglas Elliman Scholarship will help to guide the next generation of top real estate professionals and give students access to funds not otherwise available. As a company, we are also committed to elevating the status and professionalism of our industry with great talent, and students who complete this top-tier higher education program graduate with a high level of management expertise and are in the position to become true leaders in the future of NYC real estate—one of the most demanding markets in the country.”

    Rosemary Scanlon, interim divisional dean of the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, responded to the generosity and expressed gratitude in response, stating that, “We are thrilled by these new scholarships and extremely grateful to Prudential Douglas Elliman for investing in the future of our students. These newly established scholarships in real estate will recognize the high achievement levels of our students, as well as significantly help students gain the comprehensive learning experiences available at NYU Schack. We look forward to this future collaboration with Prudential Douglas Elliman.”

    The above little known scholarships for real estate funded by Prudential Douglas Elliman is greatly applauded by all students and colleges alike and hope that more companies will follow suit and give back to the community which supports them like they did. Successful and well liked companies have a good habit of doing just that.

  • Unknown Club Scholarships for College

    Unknown Club College Scholarships
    Club Scholarships

    If you will be attending college, and you need funds to help pay for your education, you seriously need to consider joining as many clubs as you can fit into your schedule. Many clubs have existing unkown club scholarships and others will actually create a unidentified scholarship program when they learn that you need funds for college.

    You should consider clubs that are offered through your school, as extra curricular activities, as well as clubs outside of the school system. Many clubs of this type exist, covering a huge range of interests and purposes.

    Joining these clubs, of course, isn’t enough. You need to be an active member of these clubs, and this is why it is important to first make sure that there is room in your schedule for this, and second that the focus of the club does hold an interest for you. If you have no interest at all, you must stop and decide whether you could develop an interest or not otherwise you will not want to participate in the club..

    Most clubs that are offered through high schools operate on the national level. This means that the club scholarships that are offered through these organizations are offered on the national level, but some local chapters also offer their own unknown club scholarships to members of the local chapter, which makes these opportunities less competitive.

    In terms of clubs that are not connected to the school, these organizations may be locally based, regionally based, state based, or nationally based. Whether the club is national or local, however, shouldn’t make much difference if being a member of the organization increases your chances of winning a club scholarship. However, if your schedule does not allow you to participate in all of the clubs that you may be eligible to participate in that have scholarship programs choose the local or regional clubs over the national ones, because of the greater chances of winning a club scholarship.

    You will, at some point, need to approach the president of the club, or the governing body of the club about the potential for a club scholarship. If no general scholarship program is offered, this in no way indicates that the organization will not be willing to help fund your education, or at the very least to work to raise funds for your education, as well as other students that are members of the club. Explore all possibilities, but make sure that you have been an active member of the club for a reasonable period of time before bringing up the subject.

    Also make sure that you are exploring all of the unidentified club college scholarship possibilities, including religious clubs, interest clubs, civic clubs, private clubs, heritage clubs, and more. Also note that the closer the club is connected to your chosen course of study in college, the more likely you are to get college funds from that organization – especially if the powers that be in that organization feel that your education can further benefit the organization down the road.

    Extracurricular activities offer more than experience and they do more than look good on college applications and unnamed scholarship applications. They also serve to provide you with college funding that you may not otherwise be eligible to receive. When it comes to unheard of club scholarships for college – join them!

  • Local Library for Unknown College Scholarships

    Unknown Scholarships - see the Local Librarian
    Library for Unknown Scholarships

    Here’s a ‘thinking out of the box’ way to find those local unknown college scholarships to help with your tuition. Do you visit your public library often? If you don’t, and you plan to go to college, you may want to make this a place that you hang out in more often. Furthermore, you need to develop a friendship with the local librarian, regardless of whether you are an adult or a high school student. You will be amazed at what this can do in terms of unknown college scholarships.

    Your local librarian is a fountain of information when it comes to available little known scholarships, and when it comes to finding these lesser known scholarships. Librarians are, however, busy, and cannot spare the time to give everyone who walks through the door their undivided attention. However, if they think a great deal of you, and you’ve worked to cultivate a friendship, they will be more likely to spend their available time with you to help you find obscure scholarship opportunities that few other people are
    finding.

    Additionally, your local librarian will probably know about local scholarships that are available, as well as national and regional scholarships that you meet the eligibility requirements for. These professionals really know a great deal of information that you desperately need.

    Building this relationship requires more than visiting the library often and looking for information – essentially driving the librarian nuts with your questions. A better idea might be to volunteer at your local library. Librarians love volunteers, and they need all of the additional help that they can get. This also works out well as a service project which looks great on your college applications and scholarship applications. If you want to volunteer, and build a fruitful relationship with the librarian in the process, visit the library to find out how you can get started.

    When you go about building this important relationship in this way, it can only turn out to be a win-win situation for you. When you approach the librarian, simply tell them that you are interested in doing some volunteer work at the library. They may ask you what skills you have, so that they know how they can best use you and depending on the policy in your city, county, or parish, there may be an application process for this. Treat this process just as though it were a job interview, and make sure that you keep
    in mind how important this volunteer position is to your future.

    If you do not have the time or the skills necessary to volunteer at your local library, building the right relationship with the librarian may prove to be difficult. You actually may have to spend more time at the library than the volunteers do to form the relationship that you need with the librarian that is required to get them on your side, and working for you to find the unknown scholarship opportunities that you need.

    Once you’ve formed this relationship, however, and the librarian knows that you are in need of funds for college, you will be amazed at the information that they present to you. Simply ask them to help you out – as long as that relationship exists – to find all the local unknown scholarships that you are not only eligible for and national ones as well, but that you are most likely to win.

  • Cultivating Alumni on How to Win College Scholarships

    Use Alumni on how to Win College Scholarships
    Former Alumni Scholarships

    The chances are good that you already know which college you want to attend. You may have already been accepted to that school. If this is the case, you need to start seeking out opportunities to meet alumni members of that school in hopes of landing some unknown scholarships to pay for some – or all. Believe it or not, this activity can actually help you to win college scholarships which are little known to you at this time. Here’s how to do it!

    Alumni typically have fond memories and a special attachment to their Alma Mater, and because of this, they are always happy to learn that somebody else has chosen that school as well. When this happens, they are also more likely to write recommendation letters, which carry a lot of weight, and to help find little known scholarship money, or to provide scholarship money themselves. This can really work out well in your favor.

    You will do even better if you can find alumni members of your school who studied in the same field that you plan to study. This makes the potential for winning scholarship funds even greater, and you may even find a mentor along the way. Don’t just look to the school to find alumni members; also look to the other people that you know. For example, ask your parents or grandparents who they know that attended the school. Ask your employer, ask your minister or priest. Start talking to people, and start getting introductions.

    One way to start building relationships with alumni of your school is through conversation and questions. Naturally, you do not want to pester them, but you should ask them if you can contact them if you have any questions, and get their contact information. Call them up or visit them to ask legitimate questions concerning their time at the school. Get their email address and communicate with them via email. They may prefer this because they can better answer you this way.

    If you are going to a larger, better known school, it isn’t hard to find and contact an alumnus of that school, regardless of where you live. However, if you will be attending a school that is not as well known or not as popular, and you do not live in the same area or state where the school is located, your search for a local alumnus may be a great deal harder, and you may actually have to spread out, geographically, in your search. The best alumnus that you could find, to aid your purpose of finding funds for school and finding a potential mentor, is to locate someone who attended the school, studied in your chosen field, and lives or did live in the same hometown as you.

    Talk to your high school guidance counselor to see if he or she is aware of any past students from your high school that attended the college that you have chosen. They may even know what field of study these students chose as well. Failing this, contact the college or university to locate past students who are from your hometown, or a nearby town who studied in your chosen field. Your search for the right alumnus that will open up doors to little known scholarship funds and grant money may surprise you greatly, and richly. This is a different twist on how to win scholarships to help you with the tuition bill and it does work. Alumni know the value of a good education and how expensive it is today. They also realize how life changing it is – for the better. Most are willing to help in any way they can if they are able to. This is your key to help unlock your student aid.