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Students Seeking Education by Experiencing Academic America (S.E.A.)
an Houston, Texas based mentoring program for high school students, students at risk, and college bound students who want to attend an Historically Black College / University. (HBCU).
S.E.A will post a scholarship for minority students each day. If you are a high school senior, junior, or an transferring college student, these scholarships are for you. FREE MONEY! We all know through life there is nothing Free, you have to apply to receive this money. Your cost is time. The time it takes to fill out the scholarship application.. Look for the S.E.A. blog each day, highlighting a new scholarship listing 2010/2011
ACT
American College Testing Assessment
The Act (American College Testing Assessment) assess a student's knowledge in English, Math, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. The test is administered by the American College Testing Program and it consists of four tests 35-40 minutes long.
Specifically, the American College Test was created to test college bound students cumulative knowledge in four different subjects: English, Mathematics, Reading and Science Reasoning. This multiple choice based test, which is usually administered in the south, is known for testing a student’s ability to recall formulas and fundamentals from the aforementioned subjects as well as a student’s ability to solve graphs. Students are graded on a scale of one (lowest) to thirty-six (highest) in each of these four categories. The four sub-scores recorded from these four respective topics are then averaged together for a composite score that is looked at upon universities for various purposes such as acceptance, scholarship qualification and then eventually class placement. This assessment does not penalize students for having incorrect answers as only correct answers affect the scoring. According to Mary Beth Marklein of USA Today, the national composite test score average in 2004 was 20.9, as a record number of test takers (1.2 million) were recorded. She also reported that in 2004, students tested higher in the reading section of the assessment (21.3), despite rants that the allotted time for this portion of the test is too short. The lower composite test scores throughout the years have created many jobs in preparing for the ACT. Test centers have been developed nationwide, and companies such as Kaplan offer strategies to taking the ACT along with practice tests (which are actual ACT tests administered throughout the years). According to the ACT official website, the test is given on six dates a year, at hundreds of locations, and students can take the test as many times as they desire, as the highest score is the only looked at determining acceptance. The traditional format of the ACT will now feature a writing assessment starting in October 2005 that tests students abilities to write a short essay.
Missouri Students
SCHOLARSHIP OF THE DAY
9-07-2010
Missouri Minority Teaching Scholarship
Program Summary: Missouri Minority Teaching Scholarship is a $3,000 award which is renewable for up to four years. The State of Missouri pays for $2,000 of each scholarship, and the other $1,000 is paid by participating colleges and universities across the state. There are 100 scholarships available.
Eligibility And Application: Applicant must be a resident of Missouri; be an African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, or Native American. Applicant may be a high school senior, college student or returning adult (without a degree) who ranked in the top 25 percent of their high school class or scored at or above the 75th percentile on the ACT or SAT examination. Applicant may be an individual who has completed 30 college hours and has a cumulative GPA of 3.0. Applicant may have a baccalaureate degree who is returning to an approved Math or Science Teacher Education Program.
Amount: $3,000
Deadline: February 15
CONTACT: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Address: P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City,
MO 65102-0480
Phone: 573 751-1668
Fax: 573 526-3580
Email: webreplyqual@dese.mo.gov
Website: http://www.dese.mo.us
RESOURCE: http://edu.excelle.com/scholarships/step4?id=2709
p.s. If you need help in your scholarship search, please contact S.E.A. c/o NORRIS COLEMAN @ mr.nncoleman@yahoo.com
*As part of S.E.A. Mentoring Program, we want to build our Mentees vocabulary. S.E.A. has chosen to italicize words and statements in blue for our Mentee to understand and use in their vocabulary
