Weird Scholarships

Most scholarships are given out to the most talented, hardest working, and most deserving students. But not all. Here are a few of the weirdest:

• Tall Clubs International (TCI) offers several $1,000 scholarships each year. Requirements: You must be under 21, about to begin your first semester in college, and, most important, at least 6′1″ (for males) or 5′10″ (for females). Applicants also have to write an essay on what being tall means to them.

• For the Van Valckenburg scholarship, you have to share the last name of Van Valckenburg. If you do, and you can write a good 500-word essay, you get $1,000.

• The Frederick and Mary F. Beckley scholarship is for financially “needy” (their word) students – with a catch: You have to be left-handed.

• $6,000 goes to the annual winner of the Duck Brand Duct Tape Scholarship. To enter, you have to create a full prom ensemble out of – you guessed it – duct tape.

(Sources: edfed.com; navvf.org; tall.org; ducttapeclub.com)

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