{"id":904,"date":"2017-03-13T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_29735\/v1\/?p=904"},"modified":"2025-01-20T03:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:59:02","slug":"ways-parents-and-counselors-can-help-students-earn-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/ways-parents-and-counselors-can-help-students-earn-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways Parents and Counselors Can Help Students Earn Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Most community college students qualify for need-based aid, experts say. Many community colleges offer promise programs, which offer tuition-free awards to eligible students \u2013 mainly to students with Pell grant eligibility. For one Massachusetts teen choosing between a two-year or four-year college, cost was the deciding factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zemez.io\/wordpress\/\">Do you know<\/a>&nbsp;what type of smoke detectors you have? Did you ever think if there are any differences in them? Yes, definitely there are. At the today\u2019s market there are two main types of smoke detectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Estime had hoped to attend Smith College, but says the school costs too much, at more than $45,000 a year for tuition and fees. The liberal arts major enrolled in Holyoke Community College last fall and plans to transfer to nearby Smith or the University of Massachusetts\u2013Amherst for her junior year, depending on the financial aid award. Estime, in the meantime, has managed to keep her debt under $2,000, paying for college with private scholarships, Pell grants and a small loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">But those are just three ways to pay for community college. Here are some ways to pay for community college other than working part or full time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Pell grants: Pell grants function like vouchers for students to pay for higher education-related expenses, covering items such as books, transportation or tuition. Awards are based on financial need to students who have not earned a bachelor\u2019s degree. More than two-thirds of Pell grants go to families making less than $50,000, according to Columbia University\u2019s Community College Research Center at Teachers College. These awards are also contingent on the student\u2019s household size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securing scholarships can be stressful, but parents and counselors can serve as a resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}