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  • I have a pell grant and a hope grant. The Hope is from the lottery. They both pay my tuition and books and with the pell I get a check at the end of each quarter for whatever money I didnt use.
  • I don't know about just white people, but for all people unable to afford college there is help out there. There are grants, academic scholarships, sports scholarships, and some big company's like Eli Lily from Indianapolis offer scholarships. In Indiana we have a program called the 21st Century Scholars (http://www.in.gov/ssaci/programs/21st/index.html). There are funds available. Talk to your school's guidance counselor and do some research on the internet to find out what type of funds you might be able to apply for.
  • Poor whites are eligible for the same standard state and federal loan & grant programs as people of any color or ethnic backgrounds. If you are asking if there are scholarships targeted specifically to whites, yes. For instance, a scholarship might be granted by an Irish heritage group to a student with an Irish ancestry (although of course, you can be of part Irish ancestry and not be white). That's one example. Others might be a scholarship granted only to a resident of a particular county; if the county is all-white, then obviously the recipient will be white. (A county Chamber of Commerce or Rotary Club might sponsor something like this). In general, "legacy" scholarships HUGELY favor whites. A legacy scholarship is one a college gives to the children or grandchildren of alumni. Since most colleges kept most non-whites out until the late 1960s, legacy scholarships tend to go to the children and grandchildren of whites, and those children and grandchildren are generally white, too. (The obvious exception here being the nine "traditionally black" colleges in the South, where the alumni were all black due to legally-enforced segregation. Their "legacy" scholarships will go to black or biracial students.) Some schools still have virtually no black alumni, or only tiny percentages of black alumni -- like Bob Jones University. There, again, "legacy" scholarships will almost always wind up going to whites only. If you are looking for a scholarship targeted to your ethnic heritage or to your county, ask your school's college counselor for help. If there is no such person, or if they don't help you enough, ask your public library's reference librarian for help. Of course, you can also search online via www.google.com or a similar search engine.
  • Nope, because then it would be called racist
  • Race does not play into your eligiblity for financial aid...the poor however does. It's based on the income tax that you filed for the previous year, ex: 2007/2008 FAFSA, 2006 tax return.
  • only if your neck passes the redness test.
  • No, just aid for all low income students race is not a deciding factor. And now the we have multi-colored (greenish) money, so the color-line on money is also fading...

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