There Are Many Forms Of Financial Aid For Colleges Online!
One of the most famous stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote was “The Red-Headed League”. In it, Sherlock Holmes uncovered a strange case regarding a man who was handsomely paid to sit in a lonely office and basically do nothing…only because he had a perfect head of red hair. Well, that was fiction. Quite frankly, truth can be even stranger, especially when it comes to getting financial aid for an online college course.
Believe it or not there are some scholarships out there that make one wonder if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is having a last joke. After all, the bulk of scholarships and grants are based on financial need and/or scholastic excellence. However, while there really are cases of elderly widows who leave their estates to their cats, there really are grants out there for blondes. That’s right, blondes, and that’s one of the more mundane programs.
One of the funnier web sites out there is called Mental Floss. It collects all kinds of strange trivia that sometimes is plain amusing, other times absolutely confounding. One that sits comfortably in the latter category is a list of ten very weird scholarship funds. The information site even went the extra mile to double check their legitimacy.
The more ordinary ones include money for being tall, another for being a dwarf and a third for being left-handed. All of these will give the recipient $1,000 each. These three look as ordinary as the Pell when you look at the remaining seven.
The biggest of all the checks appropriate comes from a person who had one of the biggest egos of all time, Ayn Rand and the Ayn Rand Foundation. A check for $10,000 is handed out annually to a person who writes the best essay on one of her two main books, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. It makes one wonders if this is ultimate rebuttal of her tenet that altruism is evil or the ultimate endorsement of her philosophy of “selfism”. Regardless, this funding is available for someone with a definite way with words.
Among the other grants is the National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance, the American Nudist Society, and one for twins or parents of twins. Still, the ones that take the cake are a linguistic scholarship for the advancement of the Klingon language (beam that one up Star Trek fans), duck calling and 200 full tuition scholarships for being a golf caddy. The last one makes one wonder if Tiger Woods is a contributor. He can afford it, after all.
Does it surprise you that a number of these monies go unclaimed? It seems that they do. After all, one could say it took an “exceptional” person to think one of these up. It would take an even more exceptional person to file for one of them.
Yet, here they are, strange and in a way wonderful because they will help pay for some person’s higher education and accredited online universities are not inexpensive. In fact, the search engine Google has a special category for them, “weird scholarships”, and it’s filled with even more such charming bits of strangeness and how to get grants for college. Odd as they are, they aren’t the pipe dreams of a 19th Century mystery writer. Then again, when you think about the high cost of education these days, one can see college students practicing their Klingon or duck calling. If they get that extra money they won’t look that weird after all. If you are interested in finding more information about free scholarships and grants, check the internet.
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