{"id":93200,"date":"2025-12-04T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/opportunity-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:40:59","slug":"thedream-us-opportunity-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/thedream-us-opportunity-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"TheDream.US Opportunity Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Amount: <\/strong> Up to $80,000 maximum over 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>About: <\/strong><br \/>\n Dream.US, a nonprofit organization, created its Opportunity Scholarship to help undocumented students who live in \u201clocked-out states,\u201d meaning states where students \u201ceffectively have no access to college \u2013 either because they face paying out-of-state tuition or because their state will simply not admit them into its universities.\u201d These states are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. To qualify, applicants must live in and have graduated, or will soon graduate, from a high school in one of the locked-out states listed above, meet DACA criteria, have significant unmet financial need, meet a minimum 2.8 (out of 4.0) GPA requirement, have not earned more than 21 credits at a 4-year college or university before the start of the fall semester, and agree to enroll full-time at one of the organization\u2019s partner colleges. The award, which is renewable, covers tuition, fees, and on-campus housing and meals at one of its partner colleges worth up to a maximum of $80,000 for a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> High School Senior, High School Graduate<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible Majors:<\/strong> All majors<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Residency Requirement:<\/strong> Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Minimum GPA:<\/strong> 2.8<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline:<\/strong> <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Application is currently closed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor&#8217;s website for up-to-date deadlines.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedream.us\/scholarships\/opportunity-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Scholarship<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201clocked-out states,\u201d meaning states where students \u201ceffectively have no access to college \u2013 either because they face paying out-of-state tuition or because their state will simply not admit them into its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-no-separators","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4959,3754,3755,2356,3833,3769,3782,4092,3776,3803,3736,3724,3756,3767,3810,3771,3792,3805,3758,3794,3744,3759,3818,3812,3801,3737,4075],"tags":[5211],"class_list":["post-93200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-8","category-alabama","category-alaska","category-major","category-arkansas-2","category-georgia","category-high-school-graduate","category-high-school-senior","category-idaho","category-indiana","category-iowa","category-january","category-louisiana","category-maine","category-mississippi","category-missouri","category-montana","category-new-hampshire","category-north-carolina","category-north-dakota","category-ohio","category-oklahoma","category-south-carolina","category-south-dakota","category-west-virginia-2","category-wisconsin","category-wyoming","tag-up-to-80000-maximum-over-4-years"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Scholarship Spotlight","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/author\/scholarship-guru\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Amount: Up to $80,000 maximum over 4 years. 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