College Scholarships for Class of 2025 High School Seniors
National College Match Scholarship
Deadline: 9/26/24Award Amount: Full-Tuition The National College Match Scholarship is available to low - income high school seniors who have excelled academically. This award provides the full cost of tuition and room and board at some of the nation's most selective colleges.
Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway
Deadline: 9/30/24Award Amount: $2,500 - $100,000 The Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway is open to students between the ages of 18 and 24. You must sign in to or create a Pepper Perks account and upload a 60 - second video that explains your academic goals, professional aspirations, or even personal dreams. Videos will be judged on the following criteria: career goals, need for tuition assistance, impact of tuition assistance, and overall presentation quality and delivery. Finalists will compete on the field at a Conference Champ Game in December.
Coca-Cola Scholars Program
Deadline: 9/30/24Award Amount: $20,000 The Coca-Cola Scholars Program is open to high school seniors who plan to pursue a degree at an accredited post - secondary institution in the U.S. You must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 to be considered for this award. Home - schooled students may also apply.
Summer 2024 Fastweb Invite a Friend Sweepstakes
Deadline: 9/30/24Award Amount: $1,000 The Fastweb Invite a Friend Sweepstakes is open to registered Fastweb members who are legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and who are at least sixteen (16) years of age. You must log into your Fastweb account to obtain your personal referral link. For each person who registers for Fastweb via your personal referral link during the Promotion Period, you and your referral will be entered as a pair into the current drawing.
Goodwall #ScholarshipNow Challenge
Deadline: 9/30/24Award Amount: $2,500
Participate in the #ScholarshipNow challenge for a chance to win $2,500! To participate, download the Goodwall app and simply share a video telling us how winning this scholarship would help you achieve your educational goals, on the hashtag #ScholarshipNow.
International Public Policy Forum Contest
Deadline: 10/22/24
Award Amount: $500 - $5,000
The International Public Policy Forum Contest is open to high school students with an interest in debate or forensics. To be considered, you must form a team of at least three students from the same high school to prepare a 3,000 - word essay that affirms or negates the following topic: "Resolved: Equitable access to pharmaceuticals should be prioritized over protecting intellectual property rights."
Voice of Democracy Scholarship Competition
Deadline: 10/31/24
Award Amount: $35,000
The Voice of Democracy Scholarship Competition is open to high school students. To enter, you must record an original three - to five - minute audio essay on the following topic: "Is America Today Our Forefathers' Vision?"
Greenhouse Scholars Program
Deadline: 11/14/24
Award Amount: $5,000
The Greenhouse Scholars Program is open to high school seniors in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New York, and North Carolina. You must have a minimum 3.5 GPA and demonstrate a strong interest and commitment to the community to be considered for this award. You must also exhibit leadership, an ability to persevere through difficult circumstances, and demonstrate financial need.
Regeneron Science Talent Search
Deadline: 11/7/24
Award Amount: $250,000
The Regeneron Science Talent Search is open to especially talented high school seniors. Students will be given the challenge of conducting independent science, math, or engineering research. To be considered, you must submit a maximum 20 - page research report explaining your experiments and conclusions. Research must be the work of a single individual; group and team projects are not eligible.
Profile in Courage Essay Contest
Deadline: 1/17/25
Award Amount: $100 - $10,000
The Profile in Courage Essay Contest is open to high school students. To be eligible, you must submit a 700 - to 1000 - word essay that describes and analyzes an act of political courage by a U.S. elected official who served during or after 1917. GED students under the age of 20 may also apply.
ExploraVision Science Competition
Deadline: 1/31/25
Award Amount: $5,000 - $10,000
The ExploraVision Science Competition is open to students in grades K-12. You must work in a group of two to four students. Each team must select a technology, or an aspect of a technology, which is present in the home, school, or community, or any other technology relevant to their lives. They will explore what the technology does, how it works, and how, when, and why it was invented. The students must then project into the future what that technology could be like 10 or more years in the future and determine what scientific breakthroughs need to occur to make it a reality.
Shari Simon Greenberg Community Scholarship
Deadline: 2/14/25
Award Amount: Varies
The Shari Simon Greenberg Community Scholarship is available to graduating high school seniors who show academic promise. You must live near a Simon mall or in a surrounding community, be a legal U.S. resident, and demonstrate financial need to be eligible for this award.
Create-A-Greeting Card Scholarship Contest
Deadline: 3/3/25
Award Amount: $10,000
The Create-A-Greeting Card Scholarship Contest is open to students who are at least 14 years of age. To enter, you must submit an original design for a Christmas card, holiday card, birthday card, or all - occasion greeting card. All designs or photographs must be the original work of the applicant.
Courageous Persuaders Video Contest
Deadline: 3/10/25
Award Amount: Varies
The Courageous Persuaders Video Contest is open to high school students. To be considered, you must create a 30 - second television commercial targeted to middle school students to warn them about the dangers of drinking and driving or distracted driving. You may enter as an individual or as a team.
RealtyHop Scholarship
Deadline: 4/30/25
Award Amount: $1,000
The RealtyHop Scholarship is available to high school seniors and current undergraduate students. To be considered, you must submit a 500 - word essay on the following topic: "Imagine yourself 10 years in the future after having graduated college and living the life of your dreams: find a listing on RealtyHop you picture yourself living in and write what your favorite room or feature is on the listing and why it is important to your future life."
Rover College Scholarship
Deadline: 5/1/25
Award Amount: $2,500
The Rover College Scholarship is available to graduating high school seniors and current college freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. To be considered, you must submit a 400 - to 500 - word essay on the following topic: "How did growing up with a pet in your life (could be a friend's or family member's) impact the person you are today?"
Posse STEM Program
Deadline: Varies
Award Amount: Full-Tuition
The Posse STEM Program is open to high school seniors who are leaders in their schools and communities. You must be a resident of Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, or New York to be eligible to participate. Posse Scholars will receive leadership scholarships to attend Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Middlebury College, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, or Texas A&M University. Nomination by a high school or community-based organization is required.
American Legion National Oratorical Contest
Deadline: Varies
Award Amount: $20,000 - $25,000
The American Legion National Oratorical Contest is open to junior high and high school students who are under the age of 20 and are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States. To be considered, you must prepare an oration on some aspect of the U.S. Constitution, with emphasis on a citizen's duties and obligations to our government. A complete list of topics are available on the Legion's Web site. Each individual state winner certified into and participating in the first round of the national contest receives a $2,000 scholarship.
It's time to break out that picture of you as a kindergarten graduate. Place it on the mantel as your reminder; you'll soon be attending your dream college or university. You wrapped up your junior year, and the school year you've been waiting on has FINALLY arrived. You're now leaders of your high school—high school seniors class of 2025!
JUMP TO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SENIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2025
Now, before you get too excited, you have a lot of work to do to ensure you attend college. Such as:
• Working on college applications and the college admission process
• Writing college admission essays
• Getting your recommendation letters ready
• Submitting your FAFSA in December
• Visiting your top-choice colleges
• Applying for college scholarships
I'm a high school senior. Is it too late to apply for scholarships?
It's not too late to begin applying for scholarships in your senior year of high school. If you haven't started applying for scholarships regularly, you'll need to jump right in and begin ASAP.
Many 12th grade students can begin to feel overwhelmed, so keep your mental health top of mind. Start with small scholarship application goals you can achieve. As you progress and feel like you've established a solid scholarship application habit, challenge yourself by increasing your weekly or monthly application goal.
Many successful scholarship applicants use this technique to ensure they get in as many applications as possible. The more you apply for your senior year of high school, the better your chances of winning.
What's the easiest scholarship to get?
Should you have an extremely busy week ahead, work to submit easy-apply scholarships. Fastweb's Featured Scholarships are quick to apply for. Most of them you can apply for in less than five minutes, and many people consider them the easiest scholarships to get.
What is a scholarship? What are the four types of scholarships?
Scholarships are a type of financial aid that is awarded to help students pay for college. They can be merit-based, essay-based, academic achievement-driven, or athletic. One of the most helpful aspects of scholarships is that winners do not have to pay them back like financial aid such as student loans do.
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