Top 5 Weirdest College Scholarships Part Two
Weird College Scholarships, They Are Real!
Top 5 Weirdest College Scholarships: AFSA Scholarship Program
The AFSA is the American Fire Sprinkler Association. Any student trying for this college scholarship is like buying a ticket for the lottery.
To be eligible for this scholarship, you must be a high school senior in the United States, and be a citizen or legal resident. If you are a home-schooled student you may also apply as long as you can verify your course of study is equal to that of a high school senior.
The remaining part of the application is simple. Download the pdf "Fire Sprinkler Essay." Read the essay and click on the "take test now" button. Lucky it's an open book test! Answer the 10 questions based on the essay. You will immediately receive your score, such as "you answered 8 out of 10 questions correctly." You can go back and correct your wrong answers. How great is that?
The number of correct questions are the number of times your name will be entered into the drawing for the prizes. 10 winners will receive $2,000 each.
Top 5 Weirdest College Scholarships: KLI Academic Award: The Kor Memorial Scholarship
Calling all Trekkie's and speakers of Klingon. You had faith one day your linguistic talents would pay off, and you were right.
If your name is the lucky one to be announced at the annual conference of the KLI, the qep'a', you will receive $500 in college scholarship money. To qualify, you need to be in the field of language study, an undergraduate or graduate student and be nominated chair, head, or dean profiling your accomplishments.
Top 5 Weirdest College Scholarships: National Marbles Tournament Scholarship
If you've lost your marbles, you are out of luck to get this college scholarship.
To be eligible, you must be between the ages of 8 and 14 and be a serious marble competitor. The King and Queen of marbles will receive $2,000 each in college scholarships and there is also a Sportsmanship award of $1,000.
Top 5 Weirdest College Scholarships: Zolp Scholarships You thought your last name was odd, this one takes them all!
To be the recipient of this scholarship, your last name must be Zolp. There are a couple of other criteria to meet. The student must also be Catholic and attend Loyola University Chicago. Be sure you also have a copy of a birth certificate and a baptismal or confirmation certificate to file with the Financial Assistance office.
Top 5 Weirdest College Scholarships: Asthma Scholarship Program Award of Excellence
Yes, even breathing difficulties can net you some college scholarship money. Curse your asthma no more.
This college scholarship is open to all graduating high school seniors in the United States and Canada with asthma. Each scholarship is a one-time grant to be used for furthering your education. No mention of the amount of the scholarship is made.
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11 Comments
Post a CommentI need to bookmark these for my sister. She'll be a senior in 2010-11
Well my brother is getting ready to go to college and it is a shame that he isn't as wierd as I thought he was, because he wouldn't qualify for any of these.
It's a shame they didn't have some of these when I was in school. I think I could have qualified for some of them, but that last name one, though.
LOL these are funny...Zlop! Wonder if there's going to be a flood at the Birth certificate offices to change your last name LOL
I'll come clean, Twitter made me do it! lol Thanks to a brain that leaks like a sieve, one of our fellow writers posted a link to someone who listed 10 weird ones. Light bulb went on and my first thought was, great article! So, I did do a general search for them and picked the ones you see here. :-) I was thinking the same Radell on letting everyone know there is more money for college than anyone thinks there are. Thank you all for stopping by to read them and for liking them.
Thanks for the great article:)
What I really like about these two articles, besides the humor, is that it is encouraging people of all ilks to get a higher education...and to find scholarship money to do it with. The financial aid department of most colleges actually have a book you can go through that list all known scholarships (even quirky ones like these) that they know about. Another great job by you, Karen!
I don't know how you ever found these weirdest college scholarships! Very interesting!
So much fun to read!
*big grin* Thanks! Glad you loved them. I'll keep putting things like this up, I promise. lol I don't like making people wait so I made sure I put them up back to back. :-)