11 Bizarre But Excellent Scholarships

For most of us, paying for college is stressful -- but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. Some organizations offer scholarships that are bound to make you smile, even if you don't qualify. Check out 11 of our favorites below. For more, go to the full list of 45 Weirdest College Scholarships, as reported by Zen College Life.

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Although the Klingon Language Institute does not require interested students to speak Klingon, fluency in the Trekkie language certainly doesn't hurt. Successful candidates receive $500 for their work in fields of language studies.

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Although the Klingon Language Institute does not require interested students to speak Klingon, fluency in the Trekkie language certainly doesn't hurt. Successful candidates receive $500 for their work in fields of language studies.

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[HowToGetIn]

09:45 AM on 10/26/2010

All I have to say is ScholarshipPoints.com --- They give away $10,000 every three months and thousands monthly to ANYONE in school or going to school in the next 6 months. Doesn't matter if you are a returning student or just starting, you fill out surveys read blogs and can enter into scholarship drawings. Another resource for finding scholarship money --- www.studentscholarshipsearch.com

[Philip Jones Reston]

06:55 AM on 09/23/2010

My alma mater, Davidson College, offers a $500 scholarship to students who can prove lineal descent from a French Huguenot.

[Dokemion]

07:53 AM on 09/18/2010

Dan Reichard Jr. Scholarship

This scholarship is for study towards a profession in the business administration/management area of the transportation industry. Applicants are required to be sponsored by the American Public Transportation Foundation member association. Applicants are required to have at least a 3.0 grade point average (GPA).

http://www.school-scholarships.org/

[Talossa]

03:38 AM on 09/18/2010

A girlfriend of mine in college briefly but seriously considered applying for a scholarship that was only supposed to be for lesbians. "For that amount of money I could go without men for a few years." In the end, her conscience got the better of her.

[Name Not In Use]

10:00 AM on 09/18/2010

her conscience

right

[latoussaint]

01:04 PM on 09/18/2010

I almost did the same thing, then felt guilty, too.

[Talossa]

02:53 PM on 09/18/2010

What made it so amusing for both of us was the idea that such a discriminatory scholarship was available in the first place. Are there straight-people-only scholarships too?

[GeorgeBurnsWasRight]

08:47 PM on 09/17/2010

At Northwestern University there was an entire fraternity for students on scholarships given to kids who had been golf caddies.

[Jerome Morrow]

03:46 PM on 09/17/2010

I wish there were more scholarships for older returning students like myself that weren't able to finish school the first time around. I understand that the young un's should be helped first. But returning students are bettering their lives as well. :)

Having said that, I just let my llama society membership expire because I was studying so much Klingon while inventing a new candy flavor, that I wasn't paying attention. And this invention is cool because it predicts the future while helping me recreate a bloodline for my Zolp family name. We Zolps are a strange brood.

And of course, this was in addition to my mind being focused on my Hubbard drawing that I'm etching into my bowling ball (which I use for my ESP league). Hard to draw in this room though because I'm so tall that my head keeps hitting this very interesting sprinkler system that I just read up on.

Wish I was under 21. Just sayin'...

[nsewing]

08:29 PM on 09/17/2010

Fanned and faved for being clever! Somebody should definitely be giving you some money. Heck, I'd send you a few bucks just to buy a shirt! LOL!

[Name Not In Use]

10:07 AM on 09/18/2010

You are being funny but you don't have to go to a high cost school.
You can enroll in a class on almost anything for no or very low cost.
Try a community college or even a non-degree class at the local museum, Community Education program or whatever. Take a class on Tai Chi, watercolors, cooking, creative writing, massage, etc. Have fun learning with other people. Actual degrees are highly over rated.

[CamBrown99]

01:09 PM on 09/17/2010

I think David Letterman has a scholarship specifically for C students at Ball State.

[mugwump67]

11:38 AM on 09/17/2010

Not quite as weird, but if you graduate in Wheelock, VT, you can attend Dartmouth for free.

[latoussaint]

01:04 PM on 09/18/2010

Good to know...

[Colleen Werner]

11:17 AM on 09/17/2010

You only have to be at least 6' 2" to qualify for that height scholarship? I guess half the boys in rural Minnesota high schools qualify. Most of them are freakin' GIANTS.

[Name Not In Use]

10:21 AM on 09/18/2010

"Not a lot is known about the people who would become known as the Celts. It is known that they migrated across Asia Minor, through northern Europe and into what have become the Celtic countries of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Most accounts of them include references to the giants that were often found among them. The ancient Greek historian Pausanias called them "the world's tallest people.""

[Name Not In Use]

10:26 AM on 09/18/2010

"As these 60-some tribes that comprised the Cimbri or Cimmerian peoples traveled across Europe, migrating and taking over areas and later being driven Eastward by other cultures, the name of the people changed. While they were in Asia Minor, they were known as the Gomarian Sacae; this was shortened and modified to become Celtae (meaning "potent and valiant men" similar to the "mighty men" on the Genesis 6 passage). The Greeks called them Galatai a corruption of Celtae; the Romans further changed this name to become Gauls."

[tdotbird]

10:44 AM on 09/17/2010

There are all kinds of unique, very specific scholarships out there that people can get. If you were motivated to look hard enough you'd very likely be able to find one for you and get some easy scholarship bucks.

[Clare53]

07:45 PM on 09/18/2010

It's not as easy as it seems. When I was in school I had a list of hundreds of those scholarships. I applied for many that I qualified for and never heard from one of them.

[divitius]

10:43 AM on 09/17/2010

Yes, because tall people are clearly in need of more help...

[Jerome Morrow]

03:47 PM on 09/17/2010

Well all of you short people get to be actors, so we are owed something...

[huffponewbie]

04:09 PM on 09/17/2010

You do get something: subsidized shoes. Size 8 shoes costing as much as size 13? Clearly we wee ones are paying for the extra material used to make your "water skis". :)