UNC-Chapel Hill Thomas Wolfe Scholarship

http://english.unc.edu/creative/tws/index.html

The Creative Writing Program and the Department of English of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are pleased to announce the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, which offers full four-year financial support to one incoming freshman per year.
The Thomas Wolfe Scholarship's level of support will be equal to that of the University's well-known Morehead Scholarships. Whereas the Morehead Scholarship places broad emphasis on a candidate's exemplary leadership, community service, academic excellence, and physical vigor, the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship seeks to identify and reward students with exceptionally focused literary ability and promise.

The Thomas Wolfe Scholarship award, the first of its kind at UNC-Chapel Hill, will be based largely on written work submitted by candidates. Artistic merit is the chief criterion of selection. Students who write poetry, fiction, plays, literary non-fiction (personal narratives, memoir, travel and nature essays, literary journalism, belles-lettres) are eligible. Multiple genre submissions are also encouraged, though submissions are limited to one application per student.
The application process will require the submission of up to fifty (50) pages in prose, forty (40) pages in poetry, or sixty (60) in play writing, in English. In addition to completing an application questionnaire, candidates will submit a five-hundred-word personal essay entitled "Why I Write."

SUNTRUST Off To College Scholarship Sweepstakes

This one is more like a drawing than a traditional scholarship, but you can get $1100-- $1000 to your school account and $100 cash card straght to you-- just for putting your name in a hat. Be prepared to get their junk mail about student loans though....

http://www.suntrusteducation.com/sweeps/default.asp

2007-2008 North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship

The North Carolina Teaching Fellows Commission has announced that the 2007-2008 application for the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship Program will be available online at www.teachingfellows.org beginning August 15th.
The deadline for students to return completed applications to the Mr. Laucher in the high school is October 19, 2007 by the end of the school day.
Jo Ann Norris, Associate Executive Director for the Public School Forum and Administrator of the Teaching Fellows Program, states, "In order to meet the increasing demand for top quality teachers for North Carolina's public schools, the program was created by the General Assembly in 1986, upon the recommendation of the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Legislators are to be commended for their continuous support of the Teaching Fellows Program. "
Each Teaching Fellow receives a $26,000 scholarship from the state, payable in $6,500 annual
increments. The full scholarship is forgiven after the Fellow has completed four (4) years of teaching in North Carolina’s public schools. John Denning, Chair of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Commission issues a challenge to North Carolina high school seniors. “I encourage high school seniors willing to make dreams come true for North Carolina students to apply for this one-of-a-kind scholarship.”
The North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program continues to be the top teacher-recruitment program in the United States. "The primary purpose of the program is to attract top high school seniors to become education majors and ultimately public school teachers," Gladys Graves, Director of the Teaching Fellows Program, states. She adds, “In addition to the summer programs provided by the Teaching Fellows Commission, the eighteen colleges and universities participating in the program offer unparalleled teacher education experiences-- experiences which produce high quality educators and leaders for the state's public schools."
Additional program information is available online via the Teaching Fellows website at
www.teachingfellows.org. Applications may be downloaded from this site.

FALL ACT and SAT Dates

Hey students, welcome back......... hope your Summer was GRAND!



SENIORS: If you are planning to apply to a 4 year college, you'll want to take the ACT and/or the SAT at least once more this fall. Even if you took it once already, a fresh score will likely be better than some of your previous scores and colleges would like to see a recent test score on your applications.



YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR YOUR TEST SCORES TO APPLY TO A SCHOOL!!



In fact, you can apply now, before even having taking the ACT or SAT, your scores will be added to your application once they are sent to the schools.



Test dates and registration deadlines for the SAT are here



Once again, the October and November SAT will be offered at Albemarle HS, but seating is limited so register now!