Victory Step Scholarships: A Focus on Affordability for Every Student

If you are considering Victory Step for your student’s test preparation, you have probably checked out the prices available from a number of companies in the area. With prices ranging from merely expensive (You’ll only need to take out a second mortgage!) to outright absurd (Please sign over your second-born child to pay for the first-born.), Victory Step already has the competition beat as far as pricing goes. Add in an awesome referral program that pays you for introducing your friends to our program, as well as some amazing instructors, and Victory Step seems like the obvious choice for any parent concerned about score improvement and affordability.

However, for some students, the costs of preparing for their tests can still seem insurmountable. At Victory Step, though, we pride ourselves on sticking to all of our founding principles, especially our financial principles. We strive to ensure that every student has the opportunity to prepare for the SAT and ACT with the best instructors, regardless of ability to pay. With this in mind, we offer qualifying students scholarships to cover the costs of preparing for their exams. This way, students who otherwise could not afford adequate test preparation have the chance to show their best work on the test and get the recognition they deserve from colleges and scholarship-giving organizations.

If you are interested in seeking one of these scholarships, you will need to get some basic financial information in order. Once you have done that, give us a call (855-773-7744) and let us know that you are interested in Victory Step’s scholarship program. We would love to have the chance to help your child become one of our new students.

With the economy still struggling and the costs of a college education ever on the rise, parents and teenagers across the country are seeking ways to save up for an education. Saving on your test preparation without sacrificing quality can be just a few dollars more to put towards your dream school!

Giving Back to the Community and Getting into College

When college admissions committees examine students’ applications, they attempt to get a feel not only for the applicant as a student but as a whole person. For this reason, a large portion of any admissions decision – roughly 25 percent – is based on the applicant’s extracurricular activities, including club participation, sports and admissions essays. Most importantly, colleges give particular attention to volunteer service in considering the student as a whole.

Now, one might ask, why that is the case, as volunteer service often has little to do with one’s specific interests or academic abilities. Turns out, it tells the college a great deal about a student.

First, it shows that the student is willing and able to give his/her time to helping others for no real personal benefit. This demonstrates that an applicant who has performed some community service has a compassionate personality and recognizes the importance of giving unto others. An extension of this, volunteering to help one’s community shows the desire to improve the community in which he or she lives. Both of these show a person who would be willing to contribute to improving the school by participating in student government, organizing events, or even helping their fellow students through tutoring or similar services.

Thinking in the long term, a student who acts upon the impulse to help out the community in their teenage years will later go on to aid their community in greater ways as an adult. This includes getting involved in politics or otherwise contributing time and money to the community, both of which raise the prestige of their alma mater by extension. Also, in a more financial vein, these individuals are seen as more likely to donate to their colleges, giving back in a monetary way to the school that ‘raised’ them.

Additionally, students who perform community service show their prospective colleges a well-rounded person. A student is not merely the numbers and statistics printed on their transcripts. A student is an individual with their own personality, interests, dreams and aspirations, which will drive the student and, in a small way, the college in a specific direction. Because of this, admissions boards consider very carefully the aspects of the student as an individual as they are able from the application.

More importantly, schools realize that working for a community cause in sometimes challenging team dynamics helps foster teamwork, leadership skills, interpersonal skills and maturity in an individual. These are traits that go a long way in defining a person, and in determining success relative to ambitions.

So, if you are planning to take the SAT or the ACT in the near future, do pay a good deal of attention to selecting a meaningful volunteer activity. Not only will you beef-up your application, you will also grow personally and feel a great deal of satisfaction while improving the community around you! Its a win-win situation!

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