Scholarships
Amount: Up to $1,500 each quarter. About: The Washington State Opportunity Scholarship is a program intended to prepare students in Washington State to fill the state’s workforce shortages in trade, health care, or STEM fields. Its Career and Technical Scholarship awards up to $1,500 each quarter to fund a high-demand associate degree, certificate, or apprenticeship…
Amount: Up to $22,500. About: The Washington State Opportunity Scholarship is a program intended to prepare students in Washington State to fill the state’s workforce shortages in trade, health care, or STEM fields. Its Baccalaureate Scholarship is open to students pursuing their bachelor’s degrees in STEM or health care fields. Applicants must be Washington State…
Amount: Up to $5,000. About: Offered by Student Veteran of America and Sport Clips Haircuts, the VFW Help A Hero Scholarship provides financial support to help service members and veterans afford higher education. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, be retired, honorably discharged, active duty, or members of the National Guard or Reserve, have completed Basic…
Amount: Up to $1,600 for freshmen & sophomores at 2-year institutions; Up to $2,250 for freshmen & sophomores at institutions with campus housing; Up to $2,850 for juniors & seniors at institutions with campus housing. About: Funded from the net proceeds of the state lottery, Tennessee’s HOPE Scholarship is awarded to entering freshmen who are…
Amount: Up to $12,000 per year (for up to 5 years). About: Offered by nonprofit Together We Rise, in partnership with the Fund II Foundation, the Family Fellowship Scholarship s intended to help propel foster care youth into higher education. Applicants need to be U.S. citizens between the ages of 17 and 23 and been…
Amount: Up to $80,000 maximum over 4 years. About: Dream.US, a nonprofit organization, created its Opportunity Scholarship to help undocumented students who live in “locked-out states,” meaning states where students “effectively have no access to college – either because they face paying out-of-state tuition or because their state will simply not admit them into its…