The Hellin Scholarship for Future Thinkers is intended to incentivize students to research and think critically about the future they are planning for themselves. Up to $1,000 is available to a YSHS senior interested in furthering their education at a college, trade school, or similar institution.
Students will be required to answer the following questions on their application:
School
- What is the name of your selected school?
- What is the graduation rate of your selected school? See bigfuture.collegeboard.org
- Have you researched whether your intended college(s) has a co-op or internship program? If it does, do you intend to take advantage of this program?
- Which, if any, extracurricular activities are you are planning to participate in at your intended school?
Career
- What field would you like to apply your education in eventually? What interests you in this field?
- Use the Careeronestop website to research what a typical starting salary might be in your chosen field(s). Compare two or more of the fields you’re interested in or two or more locations. What do you think a reasonable starting salary will be?
- Are there any other fields or majors you considered? Why have you decided against them?
Finance
- Make a theoretical budget based on your chosen career and cost of living for where you would like to live. Use livingwage.mit.edu to get some baseline expenses for your area and this budget calculator to help build the budget. How much money per month do you expect to be able to afford for student loans? If you do not expect to receive student loans, tell us a little about your financial plan.
- If you expect to receive loans, use this website to figure out your expected loan payments. Based on your budget, what monthly payment do you think you can afford? How much money would you save by paying that amount over the life of the loan? How much earlier will the loan be paid off?
In addition
- What if anything did you learn from filling out this form? Have you altered your plans in any way based on what you learned?
