Alissa Leonard, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid,
Boston University School of Law
Wednesday, October 26th, 3:30 pm
W13 Machmer

This is an invaluable opportunity to get information about financial aid, loans, debt repayment options and scholarships from an expert.

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences has some $60,000 burning a hole in its collective pocket.  The fine people in the Dean’s Office are looking to give this money away to eligible students in SBS.

For more info, visit the SBS Undergraduate Scholarship page or attend the Scholarship Workshop on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 5:30 p.m., at John Adams, Room 508.

Go get the money — it’s just waiting for you to apply!

From the office of the Dean for the College of Social and Behavioral Studies:

1. Scholarships for spring semester study abroad. We will be making approximately 20 scholarships of $1,000 to students who are doing study abroad programs during the spring semester.
Application and information can be found here.

2. The dean is asking faculty to nominate students to serve on the SBS Student Advisory Council (students must also complete an application). Student members will meet with the dean to discuss issues issues of academic and campus life and serve as hosts for visiting alumni and prospective students. Application and information can be found here.

Deadline for applications: Tuesday, November 23. The application process for each of these opportunities is competitive.

If your major is in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, it’s certainly worth a few minutes of your time to click through this link and check out all the scholarships that are available. CSBS will give out some $60,000 in scholarships this spring, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t get a piece of it. Applications for some of the scholarships are due this coming Thursday, March 11th. Others are due April 8th. Check ‘em out.

The American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school.  The Scholarship Fund awards $5,000 of financial assistance annual to each recipient attending an ABA-approved law school.  The awards are made to entering first year students and are renewable for each of the succeeding years in school.

The deadline for this year’s scholarships is March 1, 2010. Applications are available online at the ABA website. Recipients are selected based on their individual applications, not on the law school they attend, so anyone planning to attend an ABA-approved law school is eligible to apply.  You should apply regardless of whether you know yet which school you will attend — the Scholarship Fund does not anticipate that students will have already received their acceptance letters.

From the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities:

Applications are being accepted, for the 5th Annual “Dándole Alas a Tu Éxito/Giving Flight to Your Success” travel award program sponsored by Southwest Airlines and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). Through this national education initiative, Southwest will provide roundtrip airline tickets to undergraduate and graduate students across the country with socio-economic need who travel away from home to pursue a higher education.

Click here for more information and the online application.

The Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools (TRIALS) is a new collaborative program sponsored by Harvard Law, NYU Law, and Advantage Testing Progam.  According to the program’s materials:

Trials is a unique partnership of NYU School of Law, Harvard Law School, and the Advantage Testing Foundation. It is a fully subsidized summer study program for students of modest means whose backgrounds are currently underrepresented at the nation’s top law schools. The 2009 Trials program is generously supported by a grant from the Heckscher Foundation.

For five weeks in July and August, Trials students take residence at Harvard or New York University. The residency alternates from year to year, with Harvard hosting the program in 2009, and NYU Law hosting in 2010. The inaugural 2009 Trials session is scheduled to occur from July 13 — August 14.

For more information, and applications (which are due March 1st), visit the TRIALS website.

More from the inbox:

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is holding a workshop to help SBS undergraduates build their skills in applying for scholarships. The workshop will take place:

Thursday, February 12, 2009
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Memorial Hall Lounge

Here is the basic agenda:
1. Where can I find scholarships?
2. How do I put together a competitive application?
3. Q&A

Pizza will be served.
Students are asked to RSVP by email to events@sbs.umass.edu so that we can order enough pizza.

Presenters include: Anne Peramba (financial aid), Wesley Dunham (Alumni Association), Meredith Feltus (Commonwealth College), Jackie Brousseau-Pereira (SBS dean’s office), Laura Reed (Political Science), BJ Roche (Journalism)

The American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund offers up to $5000 a year to law students attending ABA-accredited law schools.  The Fund is “intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to the scholarship recipients.”  Applications are now available online and are due no later than March 2, 2009.  The application is open to any citizen or permanent resident of the US who will be attending law school beginning Fall 2009, and who achieved a grade point average of at least 2.5 as an undergraduate.

Applications require financial information, a personal statement, recommendations and an official transcript, so if you’re thinking of applying, please don’t put this off.