Hi all,
Going to be leaving my current job for a new opportunity soon, it's better in pretty much all aspects (except the commute, womp womp) and I'm confident it will be a net improvement on my happiness as well as financial life.
Only thing is: I'm currently pursing my MBA with my current company, who is paying for it (up to $10k a year). My new company does not have a tuition assistance program, but I successfully negotiated them to pay back my current company for the ~18k in unvested tuition I'd owe + a significantly higher salary to make up for the loss of the 10k/year reimbursement.
Now that I'm not formally getting my education 'covered' anymore, I'm starting to look into ways to 'stretch my dollar'. My undergraduate degree is in Mechanical Engineering and I finished in 2011, I've been doing this part time MBA program since 2014 and have been really enjoying it thus far, I'm almost 2/3rds through and want to finish it.
Has anyone had success applying for and getting 'adult' merit scholarships? I'm a 28 year old, white, cis-gendered, male who's family (just me and the wife) likely makes way too much money (>$200k) to qualify for any need or diversity based scholarship. (so I haven't bothered updating a FAFSA)
Any advice or other ideas? I realize I'm in a very fortunate situation to essentially cover my advanced degree out of pocket, but if there's optimization opportunity I'm all about it.
Thanks!