Horse, equine, getting money for college?
Question by PRINTS: Horse, equine, getting money for college?
My daughter is going to be studying the business of horses. She is an excellent rider, trains, has broken out and trained horses. She was in the top ten of her high school class, but due to not gaining an excellent score on ACT, she did not get close to engought $$ for the school she wants to attend. She continues to train at a local barn, as well as apprenticing with a well-reputed trainer. Having the studies and credentials for her future is important to her, as she cannot say that training is all she will choose to pursue in the horse industry. Can anyone point her to any $$ in the horse business that can help her in her equine studies? She is and excellent student and wishes to continue her formal education, as well as study the equine business, etc. We are aware of websites for collecting scholarships, but would like a little more specific information, if anyone has had any experience with this. The college she wants to attend is a private college in West Virginia.
She is already apprenticing, has been paid a small commission for selling 3 horses this year, 2 she personally broke out. She may want to see the business side of the eq. industry. She is 19. With the eq. industry growing, I see lots of poss. for the business, besides purely training. She has high academic goals, and also studies Spanish.
She has a really good idea where she wants to go — it’s expensive. Has the responder seen what Bethany charges?
Best answer:
Answer by Mulereiner #
I would actually check into other grants and loans and I wonder if theres a forum on that, that might help you.
Other than working at a barn to save up money, which wouldn’t be near what she needs for school, thats my best guess for you.
Good luck to your daughter….
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December 21st, 2010 at 10:15 am
Have you considered applying for a Pell grant from the government? These are available to students on a first come, first served basis, and can be used to pay for school. Another option you might look into is having your daughter become an apprentice trainer or working student somewhere. With her background, she should be able to get a position with a large show stable fairly easily, I should think. In addition, I would have your daughter take the SAT’s, NOT the ACT, and see if she gets a better score on them. If so, she can use that to apply for scholarships. SAT’s carry a LOT more weight with admissions personnel at most colleges than the ACT does- and I am a little surprised that your daughter’s guidance counselor at her high school didn’t tell her this. Most of these people generally are aware of this- it’s odd that this person isn’t. Another thing that will help your daughter get scholarships is having lots of good letters of recommendation from different people who are in positions of influence, such as her trainer, her teachers, her guidance counselor, and even her high school principal. If she participates in other sports in addition to riding, then letters from coaches in those sports are also useful. I grew up near Purdue University in Indiana, and I know that one of the things that admissions people there like is a well rounded student who has lots of different interests and skill sets. ( My parents were adminstrators at the university, which is why I am so familiar with this process.) This is why having people who know and can speak on your daughter’s behalf is so important. What’s true at Purdue is true elsewhere as well. Sometimes, it isn’t what you know that gets you admitted or gets you a scholarship- it’s WHO you know that counts.
Hope this helps.
December 21st, 2010 at 10:52 am
She could start working as a groom at shows, grooms can get a pretty decent ammount of money for a weekends work. Other then that, she should just keep doing what she is doing with working around the barn. It’s unlikely that she will get paid to ride horses, the kind of work she will get paid for is the dirty work like stall cleaning, grooming, etc. I have never heard of a trainer paying an apprentice, and if she were to get paid for riding she would be considered a professional and could no longer show in amature division at shows (and if she were interested in college equestrian team she couldn’t do it if she has been paid to ride)
Try applying for a ton of different scholarships that are unrelated to test scores, she should be able to find some that are strictly academic, and even horse related. For instance the AQHA gives scholarships to youths that have competed aqha and have some level of riding skill.
She could also just take out student loans, but with a private school she will be in debt for forever. Is she going to a private school for equestrian studies? If so, I would advise agianst it, no one in the horse industry really cares where their trainer went to school, they care if their trainer is winning and who there trainer knows… Education is important, but if she were to study buisness managment or something at a good state school she will end school in a lot less debt, and be just as prepared to be a trainer (providing she continues with an apprenticeship). Also studying something non horse related gives a good back up if she changes her career goal, or cant make a living in horses.
Side note- I originally wanted to go to a private school for equestrian studies, I applied to one of the best programs for it in the country, got in with a 2.0 out of high school (!) AND they gave me an academic excellence (HA) scholarship for 8,000 dollars a semester. They gave me the scholarship because they couldn’t give equestrain team recruitment scholarships, but they wanted me on there team, I was talking to the head of the program about how I couldnt afford the tuition, so she kept uping the scholarship ammount until I said I would consider it. I ended up going to a public school that costs a grand total of 4000 dollars a year, I have a really high GPA, am on a college equestrian team and have no student debt. I deffinitly do not regret my decision. I think going to a private school and paying around 30,000 dollars a year to become a horse trainer, who most likely your yearly salary will not be that high for a long time, is insane when you could just go to a normal school, do a free apprenticeship and become just as good of a trainer. Believe me, if you tell anyone in the horse industry ‘i graduated from ____for equestrian studies’ no one will care. They are more impressed with ‘i did 4 years of apprenticeship under ___ (big name trainer)’
December 21st, 2010 at 11:10 am
Cazenovia College in NEw York State has a excellent program.
also, Uconn, Midway college, Bethany, and Johnson and Wales gives grants and scholarships.
I would go with Cazenovia though just because it has a small student population and it hasn’t really been noticed like big schools such as UGA or Mount Holyoak, which gives it a good reputation and cheap tutiton.
They have a outstanding equine manegment program to.
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