Effective Full Tuition Scholarships concerning Homeschooling the children

The biggest problem regarding getting scholarships is when parents wait until after junior year or sometimes even senior year before they start thinking about it. When you realize the need too late it gets a little tricky to jump through each of the hoops you will need to jump through.

My two children are two years apart but I did end up graduating them at the same time. When I graduated them, there was a time when we were waiting for the phone call about the tuition scholarships. They went to a competition to see who would receive the full tuition scholarships; it was a full day competition that lasted around eight hours.

Each of the participants were told to bring something that exhibited who they were as a person. My older son brought his chess demonstration board and my younger son brought a charcoal drawing of the French economist, Jean Baptiste Say. Each planned on talking about their area of passionate interest.

When they got home, they did not discuss the competition; they brought up how fun it was to talk with all these smart kids who were really nice. I didn't really know what to anticipate considering my kids brought up these kids having great grades as well as being special.

As typical worrying parents, we were wondering what would transpire if one kid got the scholarship and the other didn't - they are both pretty intelligent, competitive, and they are both boys. The first call I got was actually for my younger son who got a full tuition scholarship. We continued being uneasy when we never heard back on our other son. Finally, we did get the second call and learned we had gotten full-tuition scholarships for both of the boys.

Frankly speaking, we didn't have the money for college and $184, 000 worth of full tuition scholarships between the two kids really helped us. We were extremely grateful that we were involved in our sons' high school education and that they could attend the college they chose.