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Your Humble Blogger received an email recently about the looming scholarship deadline. Here is something YHB has observed: Scholarships don't necessarily go to the most qualified students; they go to the most qualified students WHO APPLY.

Below is the email from Aida Avanousian of the Scholarship Office...

Dear colleagues,

Please encourage your students to apply for GCC scholarship. We have more than 500 scholarships and grants totaling over $300,000 to our students annually.

The Spring scholarship deadline is March 23rd, this means that both the application and recommendation must be submitted by this date. If you have promised a scholarship recommendation to a student, please do it as soon as possible. I would estimate about 40% of students who took the time to fill out the application have no recommendation. Students who do not have a recommendation won’t be considered for any scholarships.

In order to be eligible for all 500 of our GCC scholarships, students must have completed 12 units at GCC and have at least a 2.5 GPA. One simple application is all that needed. Applications are now done on-line at www.glendale.edu/scholarships. A recommendation is required from a teacher or counselor after submission of the application. The recommendation must be completed on-line as well.

Aida Avanousian [mailto:aidaa@glendale.edu]