Bucks Bookstore Scholarship Available

A great opportunity is open for all students to receive anywhere from $100 to $250 for those expensive textbooks.
With funds from the bookstore here on the Newtown campus, the Bucks foundation is now administering the application.
In order to be eligible to receive this scholarship, students must be currently enrolled here at Bucks with a minimum of six credits.
Students must also have to want to intend back at Bucks the following semester and take at least six credits.
All students must have good academic and financial status, which will have to be confirmed by the foundation office.
In order to receive the scholarship students must write an essay telling how the bookstore fit into their educational experience at their time at Bucks.
Also the essay must include how the student will use this scholarship to help them continue their education and get a higher education degree.
The last part of the essay tells students to describe their future educational plans.
Filling out the application is a very simple process. The application asks for things such as the students name, address, city, e-mail, student number, phone number, State, Zip, and major.
After filling out the application and finishing your essay students must submit them to the Bucks County Community College Foundation c/o Bucks Bookstore Scholarship, 275 Swamp Road Newtown, PA 18940.
The deadlines for the applications are April 1 in the spring and December 1 in the fall.
“Each semester about eight to ten students receive the scholarship,” according to Willy Coleman, director of the bookstore.
The process of getting the application is a very simple one. Fist you go onto the Bucks school homepage.
Once there you go to the About Bucks icon on the left hand part of the screen. When you get to this icon you scroll down and click on foundation/alumni.
When it takes you to the next screen you will once again be looking at your left part of the screen for an icon labeled scholarships.
After clicking on the scholarships icon it will bring you to another screen.
Once you get to the next screen titled scholarships you will scroll down until you see the section labeled Bucks County Community College Bookstore Scholarship ($100-$250).
Once you find this section you will look for the word application highlighted in blue.
When you find this simply click on it and it will bring you to the Bucks County Community College Bookstore Scholarship Application.
If a student has any questions please contact the bookstore or library @ 215-968-8459.