[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference turris::womannotes-v1

Title:	ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE
Notice:	V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open.
Moderator:	REGENT::BROOMHEAD

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 30 1995
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	873
Total number of notes:	22329

384.0. "Scholarships for women" by ULTRA::WITTENBERG (Delta Long = -d(sin A/cos Lat)) Fri Jul 10 1987 10:47

	 According to  "The Harper's Index Book" as quoted on NPR last
	 night,  the  largest source of college scholarships for women
	 is  the Miss America Pagent (and competitions leading to it.)

	 This may not be quite as bad as it seems as there are lots of
	 small  sources,  and  they  may not be including scholarships
	 open  to both sexes. (I find it hard to believe that the Miss
	 America  pageant  gives  more  scholarships than the National
	 Merit   Scholarship  program.)  In  any  case  it's  a  scary
	 statistic, and certainly gives young women a misguided set of
	 priorities.

--David

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
384.1	You can't give it if you ain't got it, so...	HPSCAD::WALL	I see the middle kingdom...	`Fri Jul 10 1987 10:56`	4
	I wonder which of the two organizations has more money? DFW
384.3	not to digress . . .	GEMVAX::DIXON		`Fri Jul 10 1987 16:29`	5
	For a more humorous point of view on the Miss America Pagent and it's scholarship offerings, you must read Dave Barry's article. #89 found in HYDRA::DAVE_BARRY. Dorothy
384.4	YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GORGEOUS...	SPKALI::ANGELA		`Wed Jul 29 1987 16:14`	16
	DEC IS THE FIRST ON MY LIST FOR GIVING SCHOLARSHIPS TO WOMEN. I AM A RECIPIENT OF A WOMEN AND MINORITIES SCHOLARSHIP THROUGH DEC'S SPRINGFILED (MA) PLANT (YOU DON'T HAVE TO QUALIFY AS BOTH A WOMAN AND A MINORITY). THIS SCHOLARSHIP OFFERS UP TO $10,000/YEAR OF AID. IT IS A FOUR-YEAR (FIVE WHERE APPLICABLE) SCHOLARSHIP THAT REQUIRES STUDENTS TO MAINTAIN A 3.0 GPA. ALONG WITH THE MONEY IS A SUMMER JOB THAT STARTS THE YEAR YOU GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND CONTINUES DURING THE CONSECUTIVE SUMMERS WHILE IN COLLEGE. THE EXPERIENCE AND EXPOSURE TO INDUSTRY IS HARDLY EQUALLED BY FELLOW CLASSMATES. POSITIONS IN DEC FOLLOWING GRADUATION ARE NOT OBLIGATORY. YOU MEET SOME GREAT PEOPLE THIS WAY TOO! I REALLY APPRECIATE THE HELP THEY'VE GIVEN ME. ESPECIALLY AFTER HAVING EXPERIENCED A FEW DISCOURAGING PROFESSORS AND PEOPLE IN GENERAL. ANGELA
384.5	some numbers for thought	WEBSTR::RANDALL	one more day -- going to miss you all	`Thu Jul 30 1987 10:07`	16
	One of the reasons why beauty-pageant scholarships outnumber National Merit scholarships is that the maximum National Merit Scholarship is still $2000 (that's what it was in 1971 when I started college and it wasn't enough even then!!!!!), or $8000 over a four-year education. Many of those scholarships contain restrictions as to what you can study (for example, a number of the major chemical companies sponsor scholarships through National Merit Scholarship Foundsation that are available only to chemical engineering students.) The winner of the recent Miss New Hampshire Junior Miss title received scholarships totalling $12,000 for four years; Miss NH USA gets roughly $20,000. All numbers come from articles in the Nashua _Telegraph_. --bonnie
384.6	growl!	LEZAH::BOBBITT	face piles of trials with smiles	`Thu Jul 30 1987 15:55`	18
	one thing that REALLY bothered me about the national merit scholarship quotient test, was that I did really well (top 1%).....and so they sent me a certificate saying "WOW, you did really well!".....and also a letter saying ".....BUT, you'd have to be in the top 0.5% to actually get any money"....and the sad things is I know two people who went to college this year, using this national merit money at state schools, and both of them punted entirely and failed a majority of their courses. I asked what they were going to do. They said they'd take the test again, and if they did equally well, they'd receive the same amounts of money and try again..... -Sincerely, and severely in debt ----Jody
384.7		3D::CHABOT	May these events not involve Thy servant	`Thu Jul 30 1987 17:34`	4
	rep .6 Even if you did qualify percentile-wise for a scholarship, you might not have gotten the $$$$.
384.8	i mean...guaranteed...	SKYLIT::SAWYER	i'll take 2 myths and 3 traditions...to go..	`Mon Aug 10 1987 14:55`	6
	elect me or lorna st.hilaire president this next election and college educations will be free and guarenteed! you're quite welcome.
384.9	101	SPMFG1::CHARBONND	Post No Bulls	`Tue Aug 11 1987 06:25`	3
	Free ? At whose expense ? TANSTAAFL And what if I don't want a college education ?
384.10	Irony	TSG::MCGOVERN	Szechuan Vanilla	`Wed Aug 26 1987 13:01`	9
	The irony to me is that, according to somewhere and I forget the source, many of the Miss America contestants drop out of college to participate. The whole thing (from meat market to dropping out to compete) strikes me as tawdry. I guess Phyllis Schlafly likes it, though ;-). MM (alias Michael McGovern)