Doogie Howser genius scholarship for your wunderkind
Do you have an exceptionally bright child? Is your kid advanced for his/her age? Then consider the brainpower scholarship of the Mensa Organization.
Mensa is the largest, oldest and best-known high-IQ society in the world. (Heck, my father-in-law is a member!) It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized intelligence test.
The Mensa Education & Research Foundation college scholarship program bases its awards totally on essays written by the applicants. Consideration is not given to grades, academic program or financial need.
*The scholarship process begins during the first week of September and ends on the scholarship application deadline of January 15.
The amount of money available for awards (nearly $70,000 last year) only had about 4000 to 6000 applicants. Applicants need not be Mensa members, you only need to live near a chapter and apply through the chapter. There are chapters is just about every state and major cities. Visit the Mensa website for details.
So if your kid is a regular Doogie Howser or Einstein why not apply. You remember Doogie Howser, don't you? It was a TV show in the late 80's early 90's that dealt with the drama of a teenaged genius coping with life while being the youngest physician in the US.
