Your Last Name Could Mean Thousands in Scholarship Money

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Need help paying for school? College students can nab scholarships for their height, their duck calling abilities and even their last name. WSJ reporter Melissa Korn joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how some of these scholarships work. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:17.0	Here's your money briefing for Wednesday June 12th. I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:26.6	Beyond academics and athletics, there are more categories of college scholarships available
0:31.4	than you think.
0:32.4	There is one for duck calling abilities.
0:36.0	There's one for particularly tall people.
0:39.0	There are ones for people who want to go into different fields like candy manufacturing or
0:44.5	certain technical industries. There are some schools that have literally dozens of
0:48.8	these where if you're the descendant of a particular person or you have a particular last name, you are a
0:56.5	preferred recipient of a certain scholarship.
0:59.6	We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Melissa Korn, after the break.
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1:33.0	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com slash Wall Street.
1:37.3	Oracle dot com slash Wall Street. There are various scholarships available to college students more than just for academics, among them having a notable last name.
1:55.0	Wall Street Journal reporter Melissa Korn joins me.
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