Stokes Educational Scholarship Program

Award: $30,000, Deadline: October 31

Students must be seniors at the time of application, be U.S. citizens, have a 3.0 GPA, have a minimum ACT score of 25 or a minimum SAT score of 1200 and demonstrate leadership skills. Applicants must be planning to major in computer science or computer/electrical engineering.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for Texas A&M University - Commerce

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Frank and Dorothy Miller ASME Auxiliary Scholarships

Award: $2,000, Deadline: March 1

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and residents of North America. They must be rising undergraduate sophomores, juniors or seniors who are enrolled in an ABET-accredited (or equivalent) mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technology or related program at a U.S. postsecondary institution. They must be ASME student members who are in good standing. Selection is based on leadership, integrity and potential contribution to the field of mechanical engineering.

 

North Dakota Dependent Tuition Waiver

Award: -, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must be dependents of a North Dakota veteran who was killed in action, died or became disabled because of a service-connected injury, was a prisoner of war or was declared missing in action. Students must enroll in a North Dakota public institution of higher learning and earn their degree or certificate within 45 months or ten semesters.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for Texas A&M University at Galveston

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

JFLF Awards Programs

Award: $1,000, Deadline: February 1

Projects may fit into one of the following categories: home, recreational or artistic equipment; shop tool, machine or mechanical device; a structure; agricultural equipment or a repair. Applicants must submit a paper about the creation of the project and be enrolled in a shop class. Applicants must also be enrolled in high school, adult evening classes, two-year/community college, vocational school, apprentice program, trade school, in-plant training or technical school and may not be college students enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program.

 

Future Teacher Scholarship

Award: $1,000, Deadline: July 15

Applicants must be education majors focusing on learning to teach scholastic journalism at the secondary school level. Applicants may also be current secondary school journalism teachers looking to improve their teaching skills in relation to scholastic journalism.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for West Texas A&M University

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Texas Oratorical Contest

Award: $18,000, Deadline: October

Applicants must be high school students under the age of 20 who are U.S. citizens or legal residents and residents of the state. Students first give an oration within their state and winners compete at the national level. The oration must be related to the Constitution of the United States focusing on the duties and obligations citizens have to the government. It must be in English and be between three and five minutes. There is also an assigned topic which is posted on the website, and it should be between three and five minutes.

 

Mary McLeod Bethune Scholarship Program

Award: -, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must show financial need as determined by the school and meet the application procedures and deadlines of the participating schools.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Houston - Clear Lake

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Rosewood Family Scholarship Program

Award: $6,100, Deadline: April 1

Applicants must be full-time, undergraduate students who attend state universities, public community colleges or public postsecondary vocational-technical schools. Direct descendants of Rosewood families affected by the incidents of January, 1923 receive preference. The descendants must provide family information on the Florida Financial Aid Application.

 

Michael A. Hunter Memorial Scholarship Fund

Award: $3,000, Deadline: March 15

Applicants must be high school seniors or current college students who are leukemia patients and/or are the children of non-surviving leukemia patients. Applicants must be full-time students with a GPA of at least 3.0 and demonstrate financial need. They must submit an essay describing how leukemia has impacted their life, a doctor's note verifying the leukemia diagnosis and two letters of recommendation.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Houston - Downtown

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Distinguished Student Scholar Award

Award: $500, Deadline: April 1

Applicants must be education majors of at least sophomore level who demonstrate leadership skills and a strong dedication to education. They must be nominated for the scholarship by an instructor or supervisor. Applicants must have a GPA of at least 3.5 and demonstrate significant contributions to local or national education efforts. This scholarship is only available in odd years.

 

National and District Scholarships

Award: $2,000, Deadline: March 31

Applicants must be high school seniors, college students, post-graduate students or adult students of Greek descent.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Houston - Victoria

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

NAHN Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: April 3

Applicants must be members of the NAHN and be enrolled in a diploma, associate, baccalaureate, graduate or practical/vocational nursing program.

 

St. Andrew's Society of Washington, DC Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: April 30

Applicants must be of Scottish birth or descent and be able to cite their Scottish descent. U.S. citizens must be permanent residents of the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania or Virginia. Students must also demonstrate financial need and academic achievement. Attention will be given to work that enhances the "knowledge of Scottish history or culture."

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for The University of Texas of the Permian Basin

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Aid for Part-Time Study

Award: $2,000, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must meet income eligibility requirements, be enrolled for at least 3 but less than 12 semester hours per semester or at least 4 but less than 8 semester hours per quarter in an eligible undergraduate program, be New York State residents and be U.S. citizens or eligible noncitizens. Tuition charges must exceed $100 per year, and once payments begin, students must maintain a C average.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Texas - Brownsville

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Cherokee Nation Scholarship - Undergraduate

Award: -, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. They must be undergraduate students who are attending a not-for-profit educational institution. Selection is based on the overall strength of the application.

 

Cherokee Nation Scholarship - Graduate

Award: -, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. They must be graduate students who are attending a not-for-profit educational institution. Selection is based on the overall strength of the application.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Texas at Dallas

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Cherokee Nation Directed Studies Scholarship

Award: -, Deadline: June 15

Applicants must be citizens of the Cherokee Nation and reside in the Cherokee Nation jurisdictional area. They must be enrolled full-time in a graduate or upper-level undergraduate degree program. They must agree to work for the Cherokee Nation for two years following graduation. Selection is based on the overall strength of the application.

 

Montgomery GI Bill Tuition Assistance Top-Up

Award: -, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must be eligible for MGIB-Active Duty benefits, and they must have served on active duty in the United States military for at least two years.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for The University of Texas - Pan American

Award: $8,000, Deadline: March 15

This program is designed to encourage students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class to attend a Texas public college or university. Applicants must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA), have financial need, and enroll full-time in a Texas public college or university in the fall semester. Applicants should contact the college financial aid office for additional information and availability of funds.

 

Military Family Support Trust Scholarships

Award: $12,000, Deadline: February 1

Applicants must be children or grandchildren of current or former military members, federal employees of GS-7 or higher equivalent officer grade, foreign services officers (FSO-8 and below) and honorably discharged or retired foreign military officers of Allied Nations living in the U.S. The applicant must be a high school senior who has been recommended by his or her principal and have a minimum score of 21 on the ACT or 1500 on the three-part SAT. The minimum GPA required is 3.0. The award is renewable for four years.