As Tuition Prices Soar, Scholarships Are Keeping Costs in Check
Yaye-Mah Boye, a senior civil engineering major at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., left her family behind in Senegal, Africa, a few years ago to study in the U.S. The 25-year-olds decision also left her financially on her own. Winning an industry-sponsored scholarship has helped make the difference between earning her degree this May and getting a job in transportation engineering, or dropping out, she says.
Boye, who carries a 3.56 grade point average in notoriously tough engineering, was one of 170 students awarded a $1,000 scholarship last month through the largess of the Society of American Military Engineers New York City-based post, the national groups largest chapter. Through long-term endowments and donations by members and others in the engineering and construction industry, the SAME post has amassed a principal of close to $3.4 million.