Mission
This program's mission is to produce 100s of debt free college graduates by sourcing funding alternatives to debt and implementing a scholarship application approach that eliminates the intimidation of the process for students, makes it fun and addictive.
Students develop college education funding plans to fund higher education using alternative sources to debt by way of targeted financial literacy simulations and tasks. We assign a College Funding Assistant (CFA) to every 2 enrolled high school juniors and seniors. The CFA serves as the students Executive Assistant specifically as it relates to developing and executing a college funding plan. This plan is centered around scholarships and alternative funding sources that exclude debt.
RDOG SR also hires a high school freshman or sophomore to serve as a Scholarship Research Assistant (SRA). The SRA condenses and simplifies scholarship application requirements and instructions. This step is in place to help relieve the pressure of the scholarship application process for both our CFA and high school juniors and seniors.
2020 Highlights
- We were able to fund our College Funding Assistant.
- Our College Funding Assistant successfully launched service to an additional student.
- We were able to add two additional student spots to the program.
- One of our program students secured an additional $12,420 in scholarships. She's a college junior that we've been working for since her high school career.
REVIEWS
"I was selected as a SEMIFINALIST for the point scholarship, which is $10,000! I used some of the essays I did through scholarship roundtable! Thank you so so much! ... through your program I was able to complete the application in record time! ... I was searching up possible scholarships to apply for, and this one is actually a **** scholarship which is similar to the *** scholarship in that it gives you support throughout the rest of your life. It was on a list that I found, and I only had a few days to submit it but because I had a number of essays done due to SR, I was able to get it in in around 3 days."
- Former Scholarship Roundtable Student
"I wish I had this info before I went to college."
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