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Weird Scholarships for Odd and Strange Talents

There are many scholarships available for college students today & some are weird scholarships for odd & strange talents. These crazy scholarships pay tuition.

Odd & Weird Scholarships
Odd & Weird Scholarships

There are hundreds of scholarships available for college students today and some of them are just outright weird scholarships for odd & strange talents. You can look them up on the Internet. Perhaps you know about the more popular scholarships and it could be that those are the only ones you apply for. You may be missing out on some lost opportunities if you have some sort of weird talent.

It is good to know that there are still people in the world with a sense of humor. There are some crazy scholarships today that will make you laugh or shake your head in disbelief but it just could be that you might qualify for one of them and make you a few extra dollars towards your college education.

Let’s take the Alice McArver Ratchford Scholarship for instance. To qualify for these weird scholarships you must be a female and be enrolled at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Students have to submit their FAFSA and must make their home on campus. The applicant cannot have a car or be married and cannot have won another scholarship. The student also needs to display a financial need. If you can meet the criteria you must submit your application by March 1st of the scholarship year.

Okay, prepare yourself for this one because this is one strange scholarship. The Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest has a crazy scholarship for you. No, I am not quacking around. Stuttgart, Arkansas in the United States is home to this duck calling oddball scholarship contest. You can be a high school senior anywhere in the USA and qualify. The only other criteria you have to meet are, well, you have to be able to call a duck. The first prize is actually something to quack about. The winner will receive a $1,500 weird college scholarship. The second place winner gets to take home a $500 scholarship, while third and forth place finishers take home $300 and $200 respectably. Stop quacking up and give it a try.

Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana offers the David Letterman Scholarship for Telecommunications. The oddball aspect about this strange scholarship is that it is not based on academic performance. Your grades do not matter. What you do have to be is creative. First of all you have to be studying telecommunications as either a major or a minor. All you have to do is submit a creative project that displays your creativity. You do have to be in the first quarter of either your junior or senior year in college. Your submitted project can be written, in audio form, a short film or on videotape. If it is creative and you win you will receive $10,000 in weird college scholarships. Second place finishers receive a $5,000 award while the third place student gets $3,333. All submissions must be turned in by March 26th of the scholarship year.

There are many more strange & crazy scholarships available. We have covered but a few here. They might sound a little weird but they are just real scholarships for college students with odd talents. The way the economy has been, money for college is hard to come by. Every little bit helps. If you can find one of these weird scholarships where your talent matches up, then it may just offer a helping hand.

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Crazy about the Vegetarian Scholarships

Vegetarian Scholarships by the Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG). These aren’t crazy scholarships for vegetarians, but normal scholarships for college.

Crazy about the Vegetarian ScholarshipsABOUT THE AWARD
If you weren’t crazy about eating your vegetables growing up, you may be crazy about the Vegetarian Scholarships, provided by the Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG). This organization promotes a green environment through vegetarianism & provides financing for a higher education to high school graduates through their VRG vegetarian scholarship program. Every year the award of $5000 each is given to two graduating US high school students who would have encouraged vegetarianism in their schools or/and communities.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The VRG is a non-profit organization committed and dedicated to educate the community and society about vegetarianism and the related issues of health, environment, nutrition, ecology, ethics and other topics. A Vegetarians diet would not consist of meat, chicken, fish, beef or pork, but rather anything else but meat. The organization does market the benefits of being vegetarian – better health through lower BMI, lower cholesterol level & longer average life expectancy are some of them.

The organization provides distinct services for activists, non-profit organizations, businesses, member services, better ecological footprints and nutrition education. “Vegetarian Journal”, cooking tips and recipes are some the means it uses to serve the vegetarian community. It also promotes ideas as “Vegetarian Family” and “Veg Teens”.

APPLICATION PROCESS
The application procedure for the VRG scholarships for vegetarians is pretty simple as no pre-printed form is necessary for the same. The applicant needs to fill some specific information as asked by the organization on one neat paper. Below is the information to be covered in the application.

  • General Information about the applicant
  • Major Individual details including high school information
  • Essay with below details
  • Details about the promotion of Vegetarianism in school/community by the applicant & other similar topics
  • Copies of report card for previous two years
  • Three or more recommendations (at least one from teacher)
  • One documentation about applicant’s promotion of vegetarianism with photographs or newspaper stories

The VRG Vegetarian scholarship application with the attachments are to be mailed to the below address:
The Vegetarian Resource Group,
P.O. Box 1463,
Baltimore,
MD 21203

The application can be made only by the high school students graduating in spring 2010. Deadline for the application is Feb 20, 2010. Applications only for US based colleges are accepted. Applicants are selected based on the compassion, commitment and courage shown to promote vegetarian environment diet and lifestyle. Only the final winners are notified about the decision.

CLOSURE NOTE
As per a 2009 study nearly 3% of US adult population is vegetarian with 15% students of the total US population as never having meat at all. The organization is aiming to have a healthy environment & eco-system and the best step forward is to educate the people about the benefits. The VRG Vegetarian Scholarships are one such medium to educate the students & community at the grass root level. Even if you weren’t crazy about eating your vegetables, look into these not so crazy scholarships for vegetarians today. The payout is considerable to make the effort worth it.

For more information about the organization & the VRG vegetarian scholarships, call (410) 366-8343 or email them as well at vrg@vrg.org.

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