Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Target scholarship

Here we are talking about target scholarship. But let us know what scholarship is? Scholarship is a financial help to student for their current study or for further study. Here student to whom scholarship given must be not capable to handle his educational expenditure or he is poor and wants to study. Scholarship also has various types and the main factor we should know about the donor and the purpose of scholarship. In most of cases the money should not be refunded but some of organization gives the scholar to bright student in the contract to work for their company after their study. This is particularly not called scholarship but can be called as loan. Usually the donors are big financial institution or the charity organization or may be some business tycoons. The types of scholar ship can be discussed below as: 
Merit-based: scholarship is given to the bright student who is good in almost all fields and the donor gives the scholarship to the college rather giving to in the hand of student. 

Need-based: scholarship is given to needy student either he is good or average at the study. The student should fill up the firm and later the needy student is given the scholarship by the donor. 

Student-based: Scholarship is given to student according to race, caste, culture, gender etc. 

Career-specific: Scholarship is given to the student who wants to make career in specific field and position. Now after knowing about the scholarship let us talk about target scholarship. Target is one of the retail store chain of department store of America having many outlets. It was first opened in 1968 in Minnesota. Soon after its opening America found one of the major retail store and today target market has many dedicated and trusting customers. Target started working in various fields like charity, social work and other work that is beneficial for the community or community service. And one of the major field in which target is working is education. 

It started scholarship program to the desiring, needy and excellent student who wants to study and do something for the community making them easy to go to school to get the degree they desire. The scholarship provided by the target ranges from high school to universities. Now talking about the type of scholarship the target provides. It provides annually 2100 scholarship package to the student who have performed well and shown talents and desire to study more. Four scholarship of 10000 dollar are given nationwide each year. Apart from this each target retail store provides scholarship to two candidates around the community who have shown their academic talents and community works. This is done because after the student has completed his study he will do something good and meaningful for the community. To get target scholarship anyone interest should be under following criteria.

 The student should have completed his high school under the age of 24 and should have joined the college or university for his graduation. The student must have GPA of 3.0, and mainly should be the citizen of America. if the criteria is fulfilled the student are given the scholarship so that student can complete their education in any field they like. And also the scholarships are given to African American students and Hispanic student after the tie up with the charity working for the African American and Hispanic students. In 2013 as the tradition of target retail store more than 2100 students were given scholarship. And in the same manner in the scholarship program is set for 2014 and 2015. Interested, needy and deserving student under the above mentioned criteria can apply online. The online application has opened. Just we have to fill up the form and don’t take more than 5 minutes.

 Another category of scholarship provided by target is target stuff scholarship in which the students below age 16 are participated in fun oriented show and win the prize like tablets, gift cards, microwave, gaming bundle, and even the cash prize. And the students have to compete in many categories and the highest vote receiver will be the winner of the target stuff scholarship. The main reason for this scholar ship is to make children motivate towards study by giving the school needed stuff with a fun oriented environment. More of the information about target scholarship can be found in website or we can just visit the target store to know more about it .

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