Scholarships in High School Senior

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Texas at San Antonio

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 University of Texas at Austin

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.

 

Appaloosa Youth Association Essay Contest

Award: $100, Deadline: May 1

Applicants must be 18 and under and should submit entry forms and essays on the provided themes. There are two age divisions: 13 and under and 14 to 18. Awards are based on originality and accuracy.

 

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

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 Midwestern State 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.

 

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

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 Southern 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program

Award: -, Deadline: Varies

Applicants must be Indiana high school seniors who have been accepted into a full-time bachelor's degree program at an accredited public or private institution of higher learning in Indiana.

 

Top 10 Percent Scholarship for University of Texas at Tyler

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.