UWSP
Upward Bound:
TRiO Times
Necessary Reminders!
Quotable Quote:
“It’s your right to
be uncommon if
you can…You desire to take the
calculated risk, to
dream, to build,
yes, even to fail,
and to succeed.”
Ewing Kauffman
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Activity Reports are
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due November 12,
ting into college!
2013! If you’ve been
It’s easy to have
keeping up with filling
your GPA drop, but
out the assessment
it’s extremely diffiand study log each
cult to bring it back
week, you shouldn’t
up again.
have to hurry to fill it
out and send it in.
Why Scholarships?
Inside this issue:
Necessary Reminders
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Why Scholarships?
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ACT Challenge
2
UB Famous Grads!
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FAFSA Checklist
3
Birthdays (Sept-Oct)
Birthdays (Nov-Dec)
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In exchange for filling out some paperwork and wiring a short essay,
you can get free money for college! Scholarships are available for
every higher education school, and criteria isn’t always based on your GPA! Some awards are
based on the major you plan to enter, your gender, organizations that your parents might belong
to, nationality or race, even your economic background. Each college usually has MANY
scholarships available for their students.
The best advice is to apply to as many that you think you qualify for, and make sure you submit
before the deadlines! Also, many applications are rejected because they’re
incomplete, creating a check list to ensure that you turn in everything necessary
only takes a few moments and the pay off can be huge.
One of our Alumni, Samantha Kelly (2013 graduate), applied for around 50
scholarships! She received 27 worth a total of $23,000! Way to go Sam!
ACT Challenge!
To help our Upward Bounder’s get an idea of some of the questions asked on the ACT, we’ve decided to insert a few for you to
try!
Question 1)
What correction should be made to the first underlined portion of the paragraph?
A) NO CHANGE
B) students, he or she is invited to
C) students who
D) students they
What correction should be made to the second underlined portion of the paragraph?
A) NO CHANGE
B) students was
C) students, named
D) students,
Question 2)
If a rectangle measures 54 meters by 72 meters, what is the length, in meters, of the diagonal of
the rectangle?
A) 48
B) 63
C) 90
D) 126
Looking for the answers? See page 3!
Every year my high school hosts international exchange students, those teenagers join our senior class.
Each student usually lives with the family of one of the seniors. I can recall students from Costa Rica, Italy,
Norway, and Nigeria. Last year, one of our school’s exchange students being Jose Diaz.
E) 252
Question 3)
Pentagons have 5 diagonals, as shown.
How many diagonals does the octagon
below have?
A) 8
B) 16
C) 20
D) 30
E) 40
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Upward Bound Famous Graduates!
Barbra Harmon-Schmaberger is an Upward Bound graduate
of both West Virginia University (1985) and University of Virginia
(1991), she focused on international relations and politics, and graduated with a JD law degree She’s famous for being the first woman from
WVU to earn a Rhodes Scholarship and she’s General Counsel and
Deputy of Securities.
Picture taken from Famous TRiO Participants on October 18, 2013. www.cnm.edu
If you want to receive federal student aid, you must complete and submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Financial aid offices use information from FAFSA to determine if you’re qualified to get federal grants, work-study funds, or loans, and
even eligibility for school merit scholarships.
www.fafsa.gov
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or
1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243)
or
the link is also on Upward Bound’s website, under “links”
Get the documents needed to apply:
Income Tax Return
Your Social Security Number and Your parents’ Social Security Number (if your providing parent information)
Alien Registration Number (if you’re not a U.S. Citizen)
Information on savings, investments, and business assets (if your providing parent information)

Fill out and submit the FAFSA

Review your Student Aid Report (SAR)-the result of your FAFSA. You’ll get your SAR by e-mail or by mail.
needed or corrections, then resubmit your SAR for reprocessing.
Make any changes if
NOTE: If you don’t receive your SAR within 3 weeks of submission, go to www.fafsa.gov then login to check the status.
can also call 1-800-4-FED-AID.
You

Your college may request more information from you, so be sure to meet all deadlines-or you might not get federal student aid.
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Keep in contact with the school you want to attend to find out when fees and tuition are due and whether your financial aid will
cover those expenses.
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Pay attention to letters or emails from the college you’re going to attend regarding the financial aid your eligible for.
questions regarding your aid, contact the college financial aid office.

Make sure you’re following all directions both from FAFSA and the college.

Parents:
If you have
File your taxes as soon as you can, but don’t wait to have your child fill out FAFSA while you’re waiting on your tax returns.
You can fill in estimates of your financial information and finalize it later.
Look at the bill form the college your child wants to attend to make sure you understand all the fees and how the expenses
will be paid (loans, grants, scholarships).
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Warning! A Birthday May Be Coming ...
September 2013
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Clay Theis
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Mai Zoua Yang
6 Brenda Greenan
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Jared Akers
Doua Xiong
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Ryan Condon
Dylan Kohel
Morgynn Lindemann
Sandy Rice
27 Brett Oenning
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30 Andrea Kuhns
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Happy
Halloween!
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November 2013
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Savings Ends!
Xiong Lee
Mai Chong Lee
Erik Rasmussen
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Happy
Thanksgiving
December 2013
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Merry
Christmas
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