1 Consider starting a psychology club at your school. 2  Look for volunteer opportunities in your community. 3  Start looking at universities during your junior year.  Get to know your teachers so that they will be able to offer good letters of recommendation.
A stipend is a fixed, regular payment, usually meant to pay for something specific. It's kind of like an allowance, but for grownups â a college scholarship might include a stipend each semester for books, for example.
Scholarship Stipend Payments. A scholarship is generally an amount paid or allowed to, or for the benefit of, a student at an educational institution to aid in the pursuit of studies. See IRS Publication 970. Individuals receiving scholarship stipends are not employees of the University. Scholarship Stipends are typically paid on a quarterly basis at the beginning of each academic quarter. Scholarship stipends are not subject to withholding of income taxes, Social Security, or Medicare.