Oyin Adedoyin
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1,572 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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And so she just started to apply to local scholarships.
She applied to scholarships that were major specific for the major that she wanted to have at NYU.
She started with smaller scholarships and then stumbled upon databases online that had lists of other scholarships from organizations that she hadn't heard about before, like the United Negro College Fund and even the Taco Bell Foundation and the Ronald McDonald Foundation.
Absolutely.
The Internet and social media apps like TikTok and Instagram have made scholarships both more accessible but also more competitive.
And that's something that I was hearing when I spoke to college admissions and prep experts.
Financial aid negotiation is something that I did not know about until I had to write about it.
And so I'm thinking retroactively to NYU.
My high school senior self and kind of kicking myself in the butt for not doing this.
She first started out applying to those scholarships.
She had applied to over 70 scholarships by the time she finally decided to negotiate her financial aid offer.
And she told me that she did this because she knew that the university may counter by saying, well, did you apply to any scholarships?
She sent a few emails to a variety of financial aid administrators at NYU.
And about a week later, they told her that they would review her case.
She said that she demonstrated financial needs.
She comes from a family where she is the first one to attend college.
And she's also the U.S.-born daughter of immigrants from Hungary and Cameroon.
And so her parents really had never navigated the financial aid college system in America before, which is really different than a lot of other countries.
And she detailed all of these hurdles out in her email to administrators.
And someone finally got back to her, said that they would review her case.
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