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Hi, I’m a senior going to college somewhere in America (either CA or TX) Just wondering if there are scholarships for specifically for TCK’s. I’m a MK by the way.

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Posted by victor_the_ewok at 12:00 pm on February 17th, 2008. Comments
Categories: General Forum.

  • Constanza
    i'm going to college right now int he US..and I WISH i had a scholarship.
    im hispanic but i dont qualify for any of the minority group scholarships becaause im not a citizen or permanent resident.
    i can't get ANY scholarships because im not a resident.
    i cant get them in Chile (passport country) because i dont have their school system..and i cant get any from the Philippines either because well..i just lived there..but im not a resident or aynthing else.

    sucks.
  • Peter
    I might have done something retarded and lost my previous comment, so here goes again. However if it appears again...hehe...

    I think we are a bit ahead of the times. In Canada I had to pay international tuition, even though I've lived there longer than some people paying local tuition. When applying to colleges in the US I actually got rejected with a letter stating this: "We dont discriminate based on age, sex, race, religion..etc. except for in the case of international students who apply for financial aid." The letter went on to say that financial aid is given to 5 students, all the rest are rejected. That considering I spent 5 years living in the US and had a US high school degree. (although from overseas) I also applied for a scholarship from my passport country, but was told those are only given to people who are products of the country's school system, which I am not.

    I did get a scholarship to cover housing in the Netherlands. However there I didnt qualify for the free public transportation given to students, because that is only given to Dutch students or people who have lived in the country for 5 years. (kinda tough to do that, considering that I havent lived in a single place that long)
  • Peter
    Did my previous comment get through or was it lost?
  • Peter
    I wish. But I think we are a bit too ahead of the times. I actually got discriminated at all levels when it came to scholarships. In Canada I had to pay international tuition, even though I lived in Canada longer than some people who were paying the local tuition. In the US when applying for a college I got rejected with a letter stating: "We don't discriminate based on age, sex, religion, race..etc. except for in the case of international students who apply for financial aid." The letter went on to state that only 5 international students get financial aid, the others are rejected. Funny, because the US is the country where I spent the longest in going to school (5 years) and I had a US high school degree. (although from overseas) I also applied for a scholarship from my passport country, but I was told that in order to get that I had to be a product of their school system, which I wasnt.

    I did get a scholarship to cover my housing when I studied in the Netherlands though. Although there I couldnt qualify for the free public transport given to students, because these are only given to Dutch students or people who are resident in the country for 5 years. (considering that I've never actually been resident in one place for that time, that is kinda hard to do for me)
  • Cynthia
    Yea the unfortunate life of a TCK, we have to pay for everything :p Why should we pay for our experiences?! Gee...
  • starburst
    Hey once one (or a collaboration!) of us manages to put together a bunch of cash, we could set up a TCK scholarship. I always find I never FIT into any of the "must have lived in said country for at least ___ years" criteria. So I have to pay my way just cos I'm a TCK. To save future TCKs such pain, I think that's a pretty good idea!
  • Uncle Dan
    I wish there were ones for TCKs in general, haha.

    I wouldn't be surprised about MK scholarships though. Church organizations like to help out their members.
  • Brice
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