3-4-10 Interview Answers

Interview with Eastview High School Student: (Kayla Hestness)
1. Have you applied for any scholarships yet? If so, how many?
A: I've only applied for one scholarship, it was through my dad's work.

2. Where did you hear of the scholarships that you have applied for?

3. How do you know which scholarships to apply for?
A: I found out how to apply for scholarship's through my dad's work and a website call FastWeb.

4. What process do you take when finding a scholarship worth applying for?
A: Usually, the process for filling out papers for a scholarship is essays, your intended major, and why you think you deserve money.

5. How much financial help do you expect to get from scholarships?:
A: $1000 in financial aid.

End: It's not a grueling process at all, it doesn't take you long at all to fill out a scholarship. It's easy.

Interview with Counselor: (Ms. Scholen)
1. What should seniors be doing for scholarships at this time?
A: The biggest thing that seniors should be doing right now is getting information about the The Eastview Community Foundation and Eastview High School Scholarships. That is about 100 scholarships just for Eastview students. Also, on family connection, we have a list of all the scholarship's that we know about, that includes some of the local one's like Kohl's, Best Buy, Burger King, other ones like that.

2. What is the process in applying for scholarships?
A: The process varies from scholarship to scholarship, the EVCF and EV high school ones will be on the Eastview website and there will be an application you can follow, for the first time this year it's one application, instead of two, so you only have to apply for one to qualify for everyone, which is nice. Most of the other ones will be on their website.

3. What scholarships should seniors apply for?
Definately the Eastview High School and EVCF, it's 100 scholarships and tens of thousands of dollars worth of scholarships going to just the 500 EV seniors. It probably only take 45 minutes to an hour to apply.

4. How credible are online Scholarships sources? (FastWeb, etc.)
A: FastWeb and Sally May, those are credible, but you have to put up with lots of ads. Those are going to be national scholarships where only a couple in the nation win it.

5. What is the timeline for when scholarships need to be done?
A: For the EVCF and EV, due April 4th. Scholarships always abide by deadlines, and if you don't get done by the deadline there is no grace period, so make sure to do everything the scholarship application tells you to do.

Interview with someone giving out a scholarship: (Eastview Community Foundation Member: Micki Mathieson)
1. What is the EVCF?
A: The EVCF is a group of volunteers, who raise money to give back to the schools. We raise money for the senior class, and give back the money in scholarships.

2. What is the critera?
A: There are 87 different scholarships this year and each scholarship has their own critera, but many of them have GPA, school activites, community involvement, an essay, and their may be financial aid requirements.

3. How many people, on average, apply for the EVCF scholarships?
Last year there was 130 out of 550 seniors, so there is a pretty good chance of winning one.