State scholarship requirements vary by state, so you would need to check the website for your state Board of Education.

‘Private’ scholarships are also available, and they usually include their qualifying requirements in the application .

Some colleges and universities have their own scholarships, so you may want to check with the Registrar’s Office to see if any are available at ‘your’ school and what the requirements are.

Also – some states and some schools have different requirements for high school graduates than they do for students with GEDs.

Sorry – I’m not going to be very helpful for your specific situation. I can only tell you about South Carolina, and general information about ‘other’ scholarship availabilities.

SC has a certain minimum SAT score (sorry – I don’t recall what it is) and grade average (minimum of 3.0) that a student must maintain in order to receive and continue to receive state scholarship funds. If you qualify and get the money for your first semester, you must maintain a 3.0 GPA in order to get the money for the next semester, and so on.

There are different requirements for part-time students as opposed to those for full-time students.

In SC there are two academic scholarships available. ‘We’ qualified for the one that accepted 3.0 GPA. The other one required a 4.0. (It provided a larger scholarship amount.)

As far as ‘private’ scholarships, sometimes alumni have set up a fund for students that meet their requirements, which may include certain ethnic or religious origins. The Kiwanis Club and other civic organizations have scholarships available to students who complete their requirements, including a written essay. The American Legion has a scholarship program available for students who wish to become nurses. Etc.

Dr. Pepper and Coca-Cola, for example, offer scholarships. So do MTV and others. You can check at each company’s website for information.

Sign up for scholarship notices at www.fastweb.com . They get your information, including such details as whether your folks were in the military (this qualifies you for certain scholarships) or if you were, what hobbies you have, what schools your folks attended, etc. When scholarships that you qualify for, or just general interest money or contests, become available, you wil receive a bulletin from FastWeb.

Some scholarships are unusual: A person could get $10,000 for college if she was an African-American lesbian. (Yes. We received this notification in one of the FastWeb bulletins. We didn’t qualify.) Another one was offered only if the student had had perfect attendance in school (meaning in all schools since Kindergarten.)

FastWeb does the looking for you. They include school-specific scholarships. (If your mother or father went to the same school you’re enrolled in, sometimes an alumni scholarship will be available. Or – one school was celebrating its 75th anniversary, so if you had an ancestor who went there 75 years ago, you could go there for your first year for the same $ it cost your ancestor to go. So – if it was $1000 a year 75 years ago, that’s what it would cost you.) I highly recommend signing up for FastWeb.

Bottom line: check your state requirements; look into ‘private’ fundings; check civic groups; sign up for FastWeb; check for scholarships specific to your school.

Best of luck to you!!!