Melissa Korn
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822 appearances
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first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Your Last Name Could Mean Thousands in Scholarship Money · 12 Jun 2024
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There is one for duck calling abilities.
There's one for particularly tall people, although the cutoffs aren't that extraordinarily tall these days.
It didn't seem outrageous.
There are ones for people who want to go into different fields like candy manufacturing or certain technical industries.
It really runs the gamut.
There's these scholarship search websites where you can find anything that you might be eligible for.
They're getting more and more aware of it.
So some scholarships are through outside organizations, you know, the Kiwanis Club or the local Rotary, that sort of thing, or industry trade groups encouraging people to pursue that industry.
And then a set of scholarships comes straight from the schools.
And for those, generally students are automatically...
put into the pool for them, especially for need-based ones.
Or if they have a certain last name, they'll be flagged as possibly able to get a scholarship for people with certain last names.
They're not common.
It's not like every school has dozens of these, but they're not that out of the ordinary.
There are some schools that have literally dozens of these where if you're a descendant of a particular person or you have a particular last name, you are kind of a preferred recipient of a certain scholarship set up by somebody with that name decades, generations ago.
They want their name to live on in highly educated circles.
Texas A&M, there is one for people with the last name Scarpinato, and that covers a substantial portion of your costs.
At North Carolina State University, there is one for people with the last name Gatlin or Gatling with a G at the end.
There are ones for Leavenworths and Zolps and...
Downers and Murphy.
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