The Nontrad News, the Sequester, and good luck on Exams!

It's about time for a new Nontrad News to come out. 
I am waiting for three more people to sign up for it. That will mean there are 700 readers for it this time. Yay! I am so excited about that.

New readers, you can help me out by signing up for this newsletter below this posting. I only need three more readers, and then I'll make another issue soon. Thanks ahead of time.

Also, there are more recent Nontrad News issues here you can download for free, if you just want to check them out. Here are a few of the older issues:

The Nontrad News Issues page on the Nontrad site.  (These are older issues. I'm working on getting the newer issues on here too.)

I plan to list some blog postings in the next Nontrad News issue, and talk about exams and plans for summer and next Fall.

If you would like to be in the Newsletter, want to talk about your Nontrad experiences in a posting, or have some ideas for the blog, the site, or the Newsletter, just comment below.

Another thought - how the Sequester may affect nontrads
Something I have been thinking about lately is the government Sequester and how it might affect nontraditional students.

In fact, it could affect them in many ways. So I have written about them on the Find Scholarships and Grants blog today. 

You can read this posting here:

The U.S. Sequester may pose financial aid hardships for college students this year and next 

I hope for all nontraditional students' sake that our government leaders can stop all the grandstanding and actually do what we voted them to do - get down to business. Do you have tests or exams this week?  Good luck on them. And keep us posted!

Betsyanne

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Are you looking for a scholarship? Here is a site to help.

I have been writing for another blog for some time that nontraditional students might like.

It is the Find Scholarships and Grants blog. Here is what the header (top art) looks like:

You can search for the kind of scholarship you are looking for there, and see some great free links you can explore.

Here is that link again:

Find Scholarships and Grants.

Let me know what you like about it, and what you would like to see there in the future.

Have a great, productive week, nontraditional students, and those who help them.

I hope everyone had a GREAT Valentine's Day too.

Aww! This cute Valentine schoolgirl is from Peter-J-Pann on Flickr.

- Betsyanne

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Scholarships and Grants for Nontraditional Students

Nontraditional Students, Scholarships and Grants

I think that the very best way to go back to school is NOT to have to pay for it. OR at least to put off the paying for it. I'm sure you agree.

That's where loans and grants come in.

I have to admit, I personally went the loans direction. But if I would have decided to go back to school sooner, I would have tried for at least a few scholarships to help out.

I have some scholarships listed here on other postings, but the best place to find them is on the pages Scholarships Page One and Scholarships Page Two on the Nontraditional Student website.

I am fixing the Nontrads Pages right now whenever I can. So you will find some pages looking spiffy, and others having sightly small type and links to things I used to think were cool. But both are interesting, I think.

Another good place to find scholarships is at the Find Scholarships and Grants site I started later on. It's another Blogger blog.

There are different due dates for scholarships, depending on the details of each. Migrate to each scholarship's main page, and you will find this information and more.

As to grants, each grant giver site is also unique.

It is imperative that each deadline be followed. That's why a good bookkeeping system is crucial. Stay organized! And apply for as many scholarships and grants as you can. That's my best advice. One of these days I may take it...

Good luck!

And here are a few more links you might like:
Get organized - and keep track of your scholarship and grant applications

The FinAid page "Financial Aid for Older and Nontraditional Students".
USA Today: Degrees of Difficulty: "Non-Traditional" students struggle with schools, loans.
Fastweb's tips for nontraditional students

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