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.
I am sure that this question has been asked, but tax time is approaching. We have a student that participated in a National Scince Foundation REU last summer. It was indeed a grant from the NSF.Also received stipend for travel expenses to and from current uni. don't know if this is applicable to the NSF money, although I would assume that it is-- When you are paid by a stipend from the government (ie NIH money), there is no withholding, but all income is taxable.