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free money that mistakenly believes you'll fill out the entire application
means Either money awarded to a student to help pay for education, or the serious, methodical pursuit and body of academic knowledge produced by scholars.
from Built on 'scholar' plus the suffix '-ship' — the same '-ship' that turns 'friend' into 'friendship,' marking a state or quality of being. 'Scholar' traces back through Old English 'scolere' to Late Latin 'scholaris,' a person of the school, and ultimately to Greek 'skholē' — which, delightfully, first meant 'leisure,' the free time the ancient Greeks believed you needed in order to think and learn. So buried in the word is the old idea that study is what you do when you're not forced to labor.
- billions unclaimed
- Roughly $100M in free aid goes unused yearly
- oddball wins
- Scholarships exist for left-handed and tall students
- merit myth
- Most aid is need-based, not genius-based
- essay economy
- Some pay thousands for a single short essay
- ancient roots
- Endowed student funds date back to medieval universities
rhodes scholarship — oxford university award since 1902 funding 100 scholars annually from commonwealth, us, and germany
fulbright scholarship — us state department program since 1946 awarding 8,000+ grants yearly to 160 countries
chevening scholarship — uk foreign office scheme since 1983 funding 1,500 leaders annually from over 140 countries