Dear Flist, I Need Some RL Help
Dec. 9th, 2009 03:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litoteaseMy kid is graduating from Berkeley this year. (Woo-HOO!!!)
My mission is complete. Which means I need a new mission, because getting her to the point she's at has been my reason for getting up and going to my shitty job for a couple of decades. It's getting harder and harder to get up and go.
I was venting about my shitty job and the skeevy ethics of our corporate overlords: "Dear God, I need to work for the ACLU, or somebody that's doing something I can morally support!"
Oh, hey -- why can't I work for the ACLU? So I started browsing their website, and I found this. I wanna. So I wondered, "What kind of degree would one have to be working on to get that internship?", and I found this. I really wanna. OK, so what kind of undergrad degrees are they looking for in their PhD candidates? And I found this.
I'm applying to Mills for the fall. They do that ICS degree as a 4+1 (one takes classes towards both the BA and the MA all along, the program takes 5 years -- 3 for me since I'm transferring in as a Junior -- and when one is done, one has both a BA and an MA), although I won't be able to declare it for a year because I've got a couple of prereqs I have to have taken before declaring it that I can only take there (if I get in, if I get in). (I'm thinking of doing this as the BA portion of the program.)
I've done an admissions interview, and I think they liked me. But Mills is expensive, and they don't do (can't afford to do) full rides anymore. I'm too old to take out a boatload of student loans -- I won't have the same kind of time to pay them off that someone younger would have.
So I'm looking for information on scholarships. Scholarships for returning students, cancer survivors, single moms (would I qualify for one of those if my kid is grown and independent now?), for women in tech (would I qualify for one of those if I can't declare the CS part of the degree for a year? And is that degree tech-y enough?)
I'm applying for academic renewal at my Junior College, which, if granted, will give me a GPA of 3.89 over 90 units ::facepalm:: with lots of science and math classes in the mix (without academic renewal, my GPA is 3.5 which is nothing to sneeze at).
I didn't realize the application deadline for Berkeley was so early or I would have applied there, too (I just found out yesterday that the cut off is Nov. 30, ::grumble::), and of course I'll apply to the State Schools, too. But, oh, I want to go to Mills -- it's an old-style private women's college, y'all.
So, anybody know of any scholarships? Know anybody who might know?
My mission is complete. Which means I need a new mission, because getting her to the point she's at has been my reason for getting up and going to my shitty job for a couple of decades. It's getting harder and harder to get up and go.
I was venting about my shitty job and the skeevy ethics of our corporate overlords: "Dear God, I need to work for the ACLU, or somebody that's doing something I can morally support!"
Oh, hey -- why can't I work for the ACLU? So I started browsing their website, and I found this. I wanna. So I wondered, "What kind of degree would one have to be working on to get that internship?", and I found this. I really wanna. OK, so what kind of undergrad degrees are they looking for in their PhD candidates? And I found this.
I'm applying to Mills for the fall. They do that ICS degree as a 4+1 (one takes classes towards both the BA and the MA all along, the program takes 5 years -- 3 for me since I'm transferring in as a Junior -- and when one is done, one has both a BA and an MA), although I won't be able to declare it for a year because I've got a couple of prereqs I have to have taken before declaring it that I can only take there (if I get in, if I get in). (I'm thinking of doing this as the BA portion of the program.)
I've done an admissions interview, and I think they liked me. But Mills is expensive, and they don't do (can't afford to do) full rides anymore. I'm too old to take out a boatload of student loans -- I won't have the same kind of time to pay them off that someone younger would have.
So I'm looking for information on scholarships. Scholarships for returning students, cancer survivors, single moms (would I qualify for one of those if my kid is grown and independent now?), for women in tech (would I qualify for one of those if I can't declare the CS part of the degree for a year? And is that degree tech-y enough?)
I'm applying for academic renewal at my Junior College, which, if granted, will give me a GPA of 3.89 over 90 units ::facepalm:: with lots of science and math classes in the mix (without academic renewal, my GPA is 3.5 which is nothing to sneeze at).
I didn't realize the application deadline for Berkeley was so early or I would have applied there, too (I just found out yesterday that the cut off is Nov. 30, ::grumble::), and of course I'll apply to the State Schools, too. But, oh, I want to go to Mills -- it's an old-style private women's college, y'all.
So, anybody know of any scholarships? Know anybody who might know?