Amount: $7,500. About: Offered by Illinois Student Assistance Commission, the Allied Health Care Professional Scholarship is a $7,500 award to provide Award to students studying to be nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives. Applicants must be fulfill an obligation to practice full time in a designated shortage area as an allied health care professional in Illinois for one year for each year of scholarship funding received; to be eligible for a scholarship, a nurse practitioner, physician assistant or certified nurse midwife student must be accepted or enrolled in a school located in Illinois and accredited in its field; a student may be full-time or part-time, although part-time students must be enrolled for at least one-third of the number of hours required per term by the school for its full-time students.
Eligible Grade Levels: College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior
Eligible Majors: Medicine
Residency Requirement: Illinois
Minimum GPA: No GPA requirement
Deadline: June 30. Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor’s website for up-to-date deadlines.