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When most people think about college scholarships they tend to think about scholarships being awarded by major companies and by the larger academic bodies and these are certainly very good sources of funding. However, they also carry one major problem and that is that competition for these scholarships is fierce with hundreds of thousands of applications pouring in from all across the country. It might be a great feather in your cap to get one of these scholarships but your chances of doing so are almost as good as they are of winning the lottery.

For many students a better alternative would be to look for an institutional scholarship.

Almost every college will award at least one institutional (in-house) scholarship each year and many of the larger colleges will award several, often having scholarships available within each department of the college. If you are attending one of the larger colleges it is possible therefore that you could be eligible to apply for several scholarships within your own institution.

Although institutional scholarships have been around for many years, surprisingly a relatively low percentage of students tend to apply for them in comparison to the better known and well publicized national scholarship programs. Now one thing to note here is that not all of these scholarships will cover the full costs of attending college and many will be limited to just tuition fees, or to covering only housing costs. Nonetheless, the sums of money available are often substantial and they can certainly reduce your college costs considerably.  Read more... (636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

As a reader makes progress in his reading ability, he checks his progress and analyses his speed reading abilities and evaluate his comprehension level. A speed reader usually considers what he is going to get from any reading material, initially scanning through the content to familiarise himself with the content, then go on to carefully consider some unclear statements after completing the reading exercise. For instance, some of the diseases that causes serious illness such as hay Fever, Asthma and Cholera are a result of infection from Dust mites.

Few 20%, instead of siding with the Trivial Many 80%. Remember it as the difference between Skimming and Scanning. Dr. Norman Weinsberger, University of California, Irvine, November 2006, Journal of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory has produced the first study linking the level of Acetylcholine (ACh) as the neurotransmitter responsible for the amount of detail encoded in long-term memory. The nucleus basalis area of the brain triggers the acetylcholine (Ach) for memory priming. To be a good speed reader, you need to implement some strategies. And these strategies need practice upon practice to make them work very well. When you are starting out, do not set unachievable goals such as trying to read and complete a big volume book in a single day. Instead of helping you to achieve speed reading, it will only frustrate your efforts. I would recommend say reading a chapter each and every day to make it interesting for you. In reading, the focus should be on understanding the contents of a material in a limited time. Dentate (tooth-like) Gyrus (ring), a serrated piece of brain structure, wrapped around your Hippocampus (Sea Horse shape) area, located in the Limbic System. When the MITs engineered a mouse without this receptor for a key neurotransmitter (hormone-like) in the Dentate Gyrus, the poor mouser had no new memories to save. He/she could not recognize or recall new locations. To humans as well as mice ? environmental recall is life itself because it is how we remember the episodes of our daily existence.  Read more... (636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

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The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, 2010: Students on Campus Tell You What You Really Want to Know, 36th Edition

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With the rising cost of college, it is important to utilize as many cost cutting strategies as possible. Let’s explore some top academic and admission strategies to help reduce the cost of college.

1.Career Planning

Career planning is often overlooked during the college planning process. However, this is one of the most important decisions that students will make. Without proper career planning, many students take 5-6 years to complete a degree. Many students receive degrees in declining growth fields or fields with a surplus of applicants and cannot find employment after graduation.

However, this can play a critical role in reducing the overall cost of college. A contributing factor in the college dropout and transfer rates is a lack of career planning and a failure to make college decisions based on career goals. Research by the US Dept of Education and American College Testing show that each year, approximately 50% of college freshman leave the college in which they first enrolled. Of the dropouts, about 30% transfer to other colleges at least once, and 20% transfer twice and typically take 6 or more years to complete a 4-year program.

Students who receive career planning prior to college selection and attendance have few major changes and college transfers, graduate on time, and tend to be more goal- and academic-focused. You may want to check out web-based career planning services at www.careerdimension.com and www.myroad.com.

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