Should I Accept this Scholarship?

[601halfdozen0theother]

Actually, for any career you have in your future, having received a merit scholarship will look good on your CV or resume.

And more time teaching under your belt is also good, no matter what you choose to do for a career long time. Use that time teaching to look for a job and occupation you will like better. When someone is young he or she tends to think "I'm stuck with this occupation forever." You're not - just for a couple of years in what will be a very long working life.

An education degree and teaching experience can be useful for so many different occupations - you're not locked into public school teaching at all. With that degree and experience you'll have a leg up getting ino museum, library or park education, corporate training, human resources, and lots of other occupations that I can't think of right now.

I say take the scholarship to make your CV or resume look good and to have a little free money. What's wrong with that???

[bler144]

Originally Posted by 601halfdozen0theother

Actually, for any career you have in your future, having received a merit scholarship will look good on your CV or resume.

Before too long your resume should be too packed to include such things, imo. But is it good filler for your first professional resume? Sure, I guess.

As someone who sits on a number of scholarship committees, I would personally view most merit scholarships on a resume with a grain of salt since I know how the sausage is often made. Now "Fulbright scholar," sure. "Random University Promising Teacher Scholarship" (esp. for a job outside teaching?) I'd gloss over in most cases.

Particularly given the vast number of merit scholarships floating around out there in the modern era. But perhaps that's just me.

[karen_in_nh_2012]

I'm confused too ... OP, you call yourself a grad student, but then you call yourself a senior. Grad schools don't label students freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. Are you an UNDERGRAD (getting a bachelor's degree)? That would make more sense given the labels you have used. Or are you getting a master's degree (grad school)? But in that case you wouldn't call yourself a "senior." Very odd.

But aside from that confusion, I agree with the others, $1,400 doesn't seem worth it.

[DubbleT]

Pass, you won't benefit from it nearly as much as somebody else would.