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Scholarships and Financial Aid
DHSHS
This version was updated May 3, 2012.
Financial Aid Terms
Grants are money you
don’t have to pay back
and are usually based
on financial need.
Work Study or Student Employment
Programs let you earn money for
college in a job on or off campus.
Scholarships are free money for
college and are usually based
on your area of study or merit,
such as good grades, special
talents, or community service.
Loans are borrowed money that
you must repay, usually with
interest.
• These scam-spotting rules are from
www.FastWeb.com:
• Don’t pay money to get money.
• Too good to be true? It probably is.
• Spend time, not money.
• Legitimate scholarships are never guaranteed.
• Feel suspicious? Trust your instinct.
Beware of
scholarship scams!
• When your completed
DHSHS scholarship
application is received in
the Career Center, a
scholarship file is made
for you.
• Copies of your application
are submitted for you
when you fit specific
eligibility requirements
for GPA, test scores,
activities, etc., for local
scholarship opportunities.
DHSHS
Scholarship
Application
• Many of the Local
Scholarship providers
accept the DHSHS
Scholarship Application.
* An asterisk means an
extra form, essay,
photograph, or family
member’s military
Honorable Discharge papers
must also be submitted.
Local Scholarships – page 1
• American Legion, Owen Coffman
Post #519*
• APWA – American Public Works
Association*
• Othel Britton Memorial
Scholarship Foundation
• Reynaldo Carreon, M.D.
Foundation* with Pathways to
Success
• California Desert Association of
Realtors*
• California Retired Teachers
Association, Division #89
• California Women for
Agriculture*
• Walter Clark Legal Group
• COD Alumni Association in
conjunction with Pathways to
Success*
• Desert Healthcare District
Healthcare Professionals with
Pathways to Success*
• Coachella Valley Pathways to
Success – CVPTS*
• Coachella Valley Alumnae
Panhellenic - CVAP
• Daughters of the American
Revolution, Cahuilla Chapter*
• Desert Escrow Association*
• Desert Hot Springs Rotary
• Desert Hot Springs Women’s Club
Local Scholarships – page 2
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Elks Club*
The Gas Company*
La Quinta Arts Foundation*
Ladies of Mission Lakes
NPS Commercial/Taber Family
National Charity League*
National League of American Pen
Women*
Navy League Scholarship Fund*
Negro Academic Scholarship Fund
Paletteers Art Club
Palm Springs Art Museum*
• Palm Springs Historical Society
• Palm Springs Leadership
Association - PSLA
• Palm Springs Teachers
Association* - PSTA
• Palm Springs Lion’s Club
• Parissa Labbaf Memorial
Scholarship
• SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union
• UCLA Club of the Desert*
• USC Trojan League of the Desert*
• Women Leaders Forum* with
Pathways to Success
Local Scholarships – page 3
1. Members of scholarship committees read
your application and make their decisions
according to their own unique criteria.
2. At some point you may receive an
invitation to be interviewed.
ALL applications (college, job, and
scholarship) will require time, energy,
attention to detail, accuracy, and thought
from you.
• Two female students were chosen to
receive scholarships from the Class of 2012.
Coachella Valley
Panhellenic
Association
• 20 students from the Class of 2012 will receive
scholarships from the DHS Women’s Club.
DHS Women’s Club
• Four female candidates will receive
scholarships from NCL this year.
National Charity
League
Financial Aid & FAFSA
• Apply for FAFSA after January 1, 2012
• Colleges where you have been accepted for
admission will give you a financial aid offer to
review in the spring
• Complete the FAFSA online at
www.fafsa.ed.gov after January 1
• www.federalstudentaid.ed.gov
• Your Social Security Number, and your parents’
Social Security Numbers.
• Date of birth for you and for your parents
(month, day, year).
• Month and year your parents were married, or
divorced.
• Your driver’s license number, if you have one.
• Your Alien Registration Number, if you are not a
U.S. citizen.
• 2011 Federal tax information--for yourself and
for your parents.
Information you need to fill out FAFSA
• Before you start filling out your FAFSA online,
get a PIN (personal identification number).
• Go to www.pin.ed.gov.
• Get a PIN for yourself, and ask one of your
parents to get one.
• This lets you sign your FAFSA electronically.
Get a PIN
• Signed into law in September 2011
• Effective for 2013-2014 school year
• Visit www.caldreamact.org
AB 131 Dream Act
• Three $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to
graduating DHSHS students
• Candidates must demonstrate financial need, have
excellent grades, and be accepted by a 4-year college
to pursue a B.S. or B.A.
• Visit http://desertstarweekly.com/2011/11/11/deserthot-springs-scholarship-announcement-2/
• Winners have been selected from the DHSHS
Scholarship Application entries
Parissa Labbaf
Memorial Scholarship