Financial Aid Available For Minority Students!

Mon, 17 May 2010 13:26:52 EST

There's a new kind of Catch-22 for minorities these days. Getting an education is a surefire way to increase one's income, but these tough economic times makes it appear harder than ever. Adding to this is the failure of many public education systems to prep students for higher education. The real truth is there's a lot of fallacy out there, and this supposed Catch-22 is one of them.

A good example of this is a lady named Eleni Betrou. Her daughter has been accepted to the Berklee School of Music, one of the finest music schools in the country. As reported by the magazine Black Collegian, Betrou has managed to raise $21,000 towards her daughter's education. She did it by not only going for the standard Pell and other governmental grants, but by also sourcing out every community, church, professional or similar social club she caught wind of.

According to the U.S. Census, minorities are becoming a more and more prevalent part of the U.S. population. Currently White Americans (not including white Hispanic/Latinos) make up 66% of the country. Latin/Hispanic Americans are slightly over 15%. Blacks compose 12.5 percent while Asian are 4.5% Projections expect Whites should under 50% by 2050, with Hispanics being the fastest growing sector. In other words, in forty years every racial or ethnic type will be a minority.

What's also telling the next breakdown. White college students still make up the bulk of the current college population at just short of 70%. Asians come in second with 8.3%, Hispanics next at 6.8% and Blacks at 4.6%. The remaining students either didn't want to be identified, multi-racial or took up less than one percent of the sample population.

At the same time, tough economic times are making it more difficult for minority students to obtain higher education. The problem may not be money though, but high schools. Middle institutions are not producing true college level applicants. This is another place where online education is growing.

Online education is a good place for minorities to get the remedial education they need to advance on to 2-to-4 year degrees. They can replace what they lack while holding down a job, taking care of family or any other life issues in general. And yes, minorities can find grants for this kind of pre-college assistance, too.

A good place to start is the Minority On-Line Information Service. Users at the basic level can search profiles, locate funding sources, view articles of interest and agency info. Registered users obtain further privileges. Another good place to find information is minority-oriented publications like the Black Collegian.

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Financial Aid Available For Minority Students!