Catching The Dream

HOW TO FIND AND WIN SCHOLARSHIPS
By Dean Chavers, Ph. D.

RECOMMENDATION:
Send us your list of keywords before you run Fastweb so we can tell you if we think it is adequate or not. It will help if you send us your resume at the same time.

RECOMMENDATION:
Send us your list of scholarships once you have cleaned them up. It will really help if you send them by the Internet. Put your internet, directory, university, and community scholarships into one database and send that along. We will tell you if your search has been adequate.

RECOMMENDATION:
Start writing as much as you can to help you with college applications. If you are not writing at least one paper a week, it is an excellent idea to start immediately. If your essay is the first thing you have written in high school, you will have real problems with it.

RECOMMENDATION:
Do not let your college counselors put you in classes that are too advanced for you. The typical Native student has not taken geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. If you have not taken them, you should be placed in college algebra and trig first, provided you have had at least two years of algebra in high school. If you have had only one year of algebra, you will need to take basic algebra in college before you enroll in college algebra and trig.

RECOMMENDATION:
If you are an Advanced Placement student, and you have a weighted GPA, give both your weighted GPA and your unweighted GPA (on a scale of 1.0 to 4.0).

RECOMMENDATION:
Contact Dean Chavers or Joy Noll at CTD with any questions, at any time. Feel free to call Dean on his cell phone between 8:00 am Albuquerque time and midnight.

Catching the Dream
[formerly NATIVE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND]
8200 Mountain Road, NE, Suite 203
Albuquerque NM 87110
Phone (505) 262-2351
Fax (505) 262-0534
Cell (505) 553-8435
www.catchingthedream.org
CTD4DeanChavers@aol.com
Joy Noll: Nscholarsh@aol.com

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