Watch as Ellen shows off the latest round of pictures featuring Tony in uncompromising positions. Then, stay tuned as Ellen gives one unsuspecting audience member the shock of her life -- by awarding her a $15,000 scholarship!
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Someone Wins a College Scholarship! RT @TheEllenShow
Watch as Ellen shows off the latest round of pictures featuring Tony in uncompromising positions. Then, stay tuned as Ellen gives one unsuspecting audience member the shock of her life -- by awarding her a $15,000 scholarship!
I wanted to be like you ellen but I cant because I am still young as 21 because education is never old. but I will be one day. As long as I can see your show on the tv, im happy because you make me happy about being smart like you. Having a lot of money is not a nessary but making people happy, it makes you feel like hero. Thats why I go to school to get my degree. I dont care how long will it takes, I know I will be there at that point one day. I am a student in california san bernardino valley college. I am going for a math professor and registered nurse. So all I need right now is being happy and smart like you and make people happy. !!!!!
your help would mean alot to me..
You are good....
Wish me luck....
Hey Ellen,
I am a huge fan of yours! I watch your show just like everyone else and there's no doubt about it you're influential and I hope to accomplish as much as I can when I am older just as you have. I love being able to assist people any way possible and I believe you know exactly what to do when someone needs your help. I saw this particular episode long ago but it's meaning stays the same. Now that I am a senior in HS and of first generation I am bombarded with college apps and trying to figure out a way to pay for college. I am hopeful however that everything will be alright. Thank you for making me laugh even when I worry, keep doing what you're doing.
Best wishes,
Yajaira
hello Ellen,
i have watched your show a couple of times and i laugh my guts out!
i see you do so many donations and i wondered if you had scholarships for students. i would like to enroll in the competition if you have. thank you.
i am sally from Ghana.
Hello Ellen,
My name is Cynthia Cruz i am a culinary student at Le cordon Bleu Culinary Art School in Pasadena. Me and my Girl Friend love your show. If you have any Culinary Scholarships I would appreciate the help. Thank you so much.
Dear Ellen,
Well your .... AWESOME, and we're pretty much best friends! You love to dance, and I love to dance! You love dogs, and I have picked up more dogs and found them homes then anyone can imagine! You like to scare people, I love to sneak up on co-workers, friends, family... and yes 84 year old grandma included! You like to make people happy, and I live to see people around me smile. Besties? Oh I think so!! I'm in good ol'Lubbock, Texas and would give the world to see you! If your ever this way, I'll show you the how to country dance!!! So you can bust out some Texas dancing on your show!! :)
Thanks for being you!
HELLO ELLEN, MY DAUGHTER JORDAN WAS JUST ACCEPTED TO THE PRE-VET PROGRAM AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY. SHE IS A STRAIGHT A STUDENT AND HAS WANTED TO BECOME A VET SINCE SHE WAS 5 YEARS OLD. I WAS WONDERING IF YOU GIVE AWAY SCHOLARSHIPS TO A DESERVING CHILD?? THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
Hi Ellen!
your show is the best show that i always watch. it is funny and always hosts the most wonderful celeberties. I am a college student who has sufficient money to pay for college. my college is a private college which is really expensive. please help me with a tuition on every amont of money that you would help me not to drop out from that college because of money. I really love that college but i can't afford it. please help me with any amount to help pay for that college.
Thanks
Hi Ellen,
I love your show so much and love your energy that you bring! I was wondering if you could help me find and get scholarships to pay for school. I need help with that! Please Help me!
Hi Ellen,
I enjoy your show, I too love to talk and dance! I tivo the show and watch it early (before the sun comes up) the next morning. Unfortunately, I am currently a 44 yr old unemployed Construction Safety Supervisor worked primaraly in refinery's. I love my job, safety is the most important part of every construction job or any job. Being a female in a male dominated business is difficult but so worth it. I have decided to go back to school, I started about 16 years ago and never was able to finish because of work and a fabulous daughter. I am searching as many scholarship programs as possible, unemployement doesn't go far with tuition. I am going back to school to get my Occupational Safety and Health degree, YEAH. I would love any help or advice.
Thank you, Bonnie
Safety isn't expensive, it's priceless!
Hey Ellen,
My name is Adriana, and I am now soon gonna be a junior, and my plans when I graduate High School is to go to college. my goals for the next two years is to get an "A" in every single class. And it would be my first. I have now been thinking what I have been wanting to do with my life, but there are just way to many things I want to do. I am now starting to care to go to college, and I am trying to do the best I can to do good in Highschool. My freshman grades started out Great! But then my sophomore year was a bit down, because my family had started on making there own business, but now I am getting use to my schedule and gonna be trying my complete hardest to get help for paying off my college. I'm a very great, outing gal who just loves to volunteer in anything I see that needs help. I am a person who is tryig super hard to reach my goals to make it all the way through with some help.
I wanted some help from your schollarship.
If there is some way you can help me get money for college I would appreciate the help.
-Adriana
Hi Ellen,
I was just wondering how a student might be concidered for one of your scholarships. My son has a plan for a future in egineering science. His plan or dream as some might say all depends on his chance of attending college. I call him a human sponge, because he absorbs any and all information he hears, sees, and reads. He is very smart, He is a Prarie State Scholar, A Illinois State Scholar, and in the National Honor Society. He got a 32 on his ACT's, 3.3 gpa, and ranked 88/564 of his grad class. All of this is great, but not well enough for any scholarships because his one downfall is English and most scholarships are based on essays, he does his best but I think a bit of his asperger's syndrome or add holds him back. He does have an IEP (individual education program) and has had since preschool, that might be part of why he doesnt get picked for scholarship but I dont know for sure. To sum this up and not talk your ear off any further, I just wanted to know how he might be in the running for one of the scholarships that you award students, or maybe you could give me some information on other ones he could get. His future nplan depends on the ability to go to college, but with out some sort of help it becomes just a dream out of his reach.
Dear Ellen,
Love you and have watched u whenever I was not working to raise my family. I am in a desperate search for any type of Financial Assistance that would be available for my soon to be college senior. We just found out that is FAFSA ltr has stated that our family contribution for his senior year will be $8,700.00 and I do not want charity but am at a loss as to where to go for help.
I am a single mother of 4 children and this is my last one to finish school. I lost my job after 10 years because of the economy9my unemployment benefits are totally exhausted) and unfortunately I live in an area where employment opportunities are very few and far between. I am the proud owner of a 16 yr old rusty "whooptie' that barely gets me around to try to find employment. May have to leave this area and move to an area where jobs are more plentiful, walking away from my family home of 7 years. But that is my issue to deal with. What I worry about most is my sons' future. He will be a senior at Ashland University in Ashland, OHIO and is majoring in Sports Management. He has been a Little League umpire and Hot Stove League Baseball coach in our county (Holmes) for 4 years, works part time at our County Parks & Recreation Dept., umpiring, refereeing, holding various sports clinics for kids and also does field maintenance for the same dept. In light of my dire financial situation, he and I worry that he may have to put off finishing his education and graduating so he may realize his goal to be a successful coach. He is a GREAT Son and has had to scratch and scrimp along with me just to be able to attend school for the last 3 years while continuing to coach every summer in the local baseball program for no pay... just to have a chance to work with the kids and maybe make a difference in their lives! My only wish for him is that he will be able to continue his studies and complete his senior year without the constant financial worries of the past 3 years before he enters the real world, where the worry never stops! He deserves this sooo much and any assistance in finding the resources so that he may accomplish his goals would be appreciated. He has no idea that I am doing this and asking for help, so maybe it would make the burden a bit easier for such a focused dedicated, hardworking& caring young man that I am proud to call my boy! Thank you!
dear Ellen im a high school student at Thomas Jefferson high school and im was trying to apply to you scholarship.. if there is some way you can help me get money for collage i will highly appreciated it. i want to go to collage im the first of my family to finish high school and i want to be the first to finish collage too.. thank you.. crystal zaragoza
I was wondering what you have to do to apply to be considered for a scholarship? I am a full time working mother who is wanting to further my education and because I work - I do not qualify for a lot of financial aid, however, trying to get into nursing school and buying books and supplies is not cheap.
I am not looking for a windfall - just a little bit of assistance. Any information you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
hi
It is so generous of you and surely it is so nice having to advocate for literacy. One question though what about the African young people who want to pursue an education and are half way to completion but can not make ends meet and are the verge of dropping out. Am talking about one who has is in her fourth year but cannot complete the final semester what about them?
Good Day,
My name is Tia and I am a 23 year old female living in the Virgin Islands.
I recently took the step to attend college now that I have taken care of my mother who passed a year ago. I came across a hurdle in my finances. My brother got the government to assist him with school while our mother was alive because of her income situation but now that she's gone, I am left to pay for college on my own and it seems like the hardest thing ever. I was wondering if there was a way that someone or an organization where I could possibly get some assistance with paying attending a university online. If so, please let me know what i need to do the receive a scholarship or any type of financial help for my education. I was so afraid to write this message but now that I'm at the end I feel a little better know that I made that step forward to obtain help to further my education. I am currently going through the admissions process at the Everest University Online.
Thank you so much for taking time to read this letter.
i did not get helped with EDD at all because i have young child which i have no one to take cared of.i am only one that needed to take care of him.i don't have money to paid for babysitter.i supported to TAA helped me because my company paid for it.They messed me up by not sent those letter which they are supported to.i did not know and it is now expirater. i cannot go to school because school is expenses and i don't have time.i can take On-line classes and take care of him and that will be okay unfornuately the school is too expensive for me to go.i am 34 years old and have worked this company for long time.It sold to Siemens and Siemens decided they don't needed us anymore.They want to go oversea to United Kingdom to make business.Many thousands of us are laid off one by one and that is including my families members.
my name is jessica Hoang Nguyen.I am mom of young child and i just got laid off last year.i just want to know how i can win full scholarship for myself so i have better future for me and my child.i desperately needed this education for better future.please helped me.
Ellen today i saw you giving away something so much more than money...you gave this girl a future..and thats something that will last forever...it made me feel so happy to see you giving it to someone who will actualy use it for all its worth! Im just a junior in high school but i know just how much an education is worth...and belive me, that girl will never ever forget what you and your staff have done for her.
thank you for helping so many people.
love
carolina
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Dear Ellen,
My name is Taylor Tweedie I am a senior in high school. I watch your show almost everyday, its always so entertaining and makes me smile when having a bad day. I will be headed to college real soon and was wondering if you had any scholarships available? I would really appreciate the help. My plans are to go to Santiago Canyon College for 2 years and then head off to a 4 yr. I want to major in pre law its always been my dream to become a lawyer.
Thank you! :)
Posted by Taylor Tweedie | December 7, 2011 3:26 PM