Scholarships 
Scholarships are funds made available by sources generally other than the government, such as private businesses, organizations, clubs, colleges, etc., for students to help with the costs of their education. Generally students must compete for scholarships. Awards have many different criteria; they may or may not depend on financial need, may be aimed toward a specific major or type of student, may have a high GPA requirement or may not.
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The LPC Scholarship Program
During February each year the Las Positas Scholarship Program is advertised, and students may begin to apply for a variety of awards available only to Las Positas students.
Outside Scholarships
Outside scholarships are offered from a variety of local, statewide and national organizations or foundations. The list is updated frequently as new information is received by the college. These scholarship opportuntities are not specifically for Las Positas students, but may be of particular interest to LPC students. Often transfer scholarship opportunities for four year colleges are listed. Deadlines vary greatly, so make it a point to check this list frequently.
There are hundreds of thousands of scholarship opportunities that an ambitious student can discover. While there are many reference books available, they quickly become outdated. Today, the very best way to seek current information is through the World Wide Web, which is free. Students may use the computers in the Learning Resource Center for this purpose. Students can search huge databases to seek scholarships for which they meet the qualifications. Or, several FREE on-line scholarship searches are available, which do the searching for the student based on an application the student completes.
Scholarship Search Companies/Scholarship Scams
There are many businesses who would like to sell you the opportunity for them to search for scholarships for you. They will promise to locate several sources of scholarships which you qualify for and make it seem as if they could assist you in securing a better financial aid package than if you sought aid yourself. We highly discourage paying anyone to do this type of service, which the student can do for free utilizing the same data, directly on the web, and can get the same pertinent financial aid application and process assistance directly from our office for free! For further and specific information regarding scholarship scams, go to the following web page: http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/scams.phtml
Other Scholarship Links of Interest
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Scholarship Search Engine 
Scholarships for Latino Students - Student Scholarship Search (new)
- Scholarships.com (a new search engine, try it)
- Scholarship Resource Network Experess (SRN Express)
- Discover Nursing
- East Bay Consortium Latino Scholarships
- BrokeScholar
- Scholarships for International Students
- Scholarships for Minorities
- 100 Minority Scholarship Gateway List
- The National Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- Minority Scholarships Guide
- The United Negro College Fund
- Bill Gates Millenium Scholars Program
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- eduPASS-International Student Higher Education
- Mg James Ursano Scholarship Fund
- The National Scholars Honor Society
- CollegeScholarships.org
