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Available to: High School Freshmen through High School Seniors
Award Amount: Awards from $14,000 - $18,000
The National High School Oratorical Contest is open to junior high and high school students who are under the age of 20 and citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States. You must prepare an oration on some aspect of the U.S. Constitution, with some emphasis on the duties and obligations of citizens 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 an additional $1,500 scholarship.
When should I apply for scholarships?
Most students want to know when they should start applying for scholarships. The short answer: RIGHT NOW! Students can sign up for Fastweb at the age of 13 and can start accumulating scholarships to help pay for school years before even beginning the college application process. Here's the main take away: the earlier you begin applying, the more scholarships you'll have a shot at being considered for and have time to win. Apply for one or however many of the below scholarships you qualify for! Remember, the more you apply for, the better your odds are of winning a scholarship. Check out these Four Scholarship Tips via this Instagram Reel:Check out more than ten scholarships you can apply for today:
- $1,000 April Scholarship Deadline: 4/20/21
- Tzu Chi USA Scholars Program Deadline: 4/30/21
- $2,222 No Essay ‘You Deserve It’ Scholarship Deadline: 4/29/21
- April 2021 Fastweb Invite a Friend Sweepstakes Deadline: 4/30/21
- $2,000 Niche No Essay Scholarship Deadline: 4/30/21
- ScholarshipPoints $1,000 Scholarship Deadline: 4/30/21
- $2,000 Spring Scholarship Deadline: 4/30/21
- $2,500 Easy Scholarship: Answer 3 Questions to Improve Education on Race, Racism, and History Deadline: 4/30/21
- ScholarshipPoints $10,000 Scholarship Deadline: 6/15/21
- The Earnest Scholarship Fund Deadline: 6/30/21
- Paradigm Challenge Deadline: 5/1/21
- Future Educator Scholarship Deadline: 8/19/21
- Thiel Fellowship Deadline: Varies
- American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest
Available to: High School Freshmen through Seniors Award Amount: $1,000
Each new school year is an opportunity for a fresh start, so we're giving away a $1,000 scholarship to help kickoff the new school year.
Available to: High School Seniors through College Seniors
Award Amount: $1,000
The Tzu Chi USA Scholars Program is available to graduating high school seniors and continuing undergraduate students. You must have a minimum 3.0 GPA to be eligible for this award. Selection will be based on financial need, academic achievement, and community involvement.
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Available to: High School Freshmen through Graduate Students, Year 5
Award Amount: $2,222 The 'You Deserve It!' no-essay Scholarship from ScholarshipOwl awards $2,222 and takes only one minute to register. Without any further effort, you can apply to hundreds more scholarships automatically. Apply to scholarships without having to fill out repetitive application forms one application at a time. Why spend hours applying to one scholarship when you can apply to hundreds at the same time! On top of that, get automatically reapplied every time a scholarship renews.
Available to: Minimum Age 13
Award Amount: 2 Awards of $500 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 thirteen (13) 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 entered as a pair into the monthly drawing.
Available to: High School Freshmen through College Graduate Students, Year 5
Award Amount: $2,000 We know you are busy and we know that times are tough. That is why we decided to create the easiest possible scholarship to give something back to students. Students can use the money to help cover tuition, housing, meal plans, books, computers, or any education-related expenses. The scholarship is open to all high school and college students and those planning to enroll in the next 12 months.
Available to: High School Juniors through College Graduate Students, Year 5
Award Amount: $1,000
ScholarshipPoints will award a $1,000 scholarship to one lucky member this quarter. All you have to do to become eligible is become a ScholarshipPoints member and log in. It's simple, fun, and completely free!
Available to: High School Freshmen through Seniors
Award Amount: $2,000
When you register on CollegeXpress and answer this one question you will be entered into our monthly scholarship contest. Just tell us “If you traveled for spring break, where did you go? If you didn’t, where would you have loved to go?”All entries must be made in April 2021 to be valid.
Available to: Maximum Age, 25
Award Amount: $2,500
You could win an easy $2,500 scholarship by answering 3 questions to share ideas on how your school, district, or textbook could improve its curriculum on race, racism, and US history. We'll use your feedback and work with experts to create guides for students and educators to improve race and history education nationwide. Simply answer the 3 questions and you'll automatically enter to win the $2,500 scholarship. Let's Do This!
Available to: High School Freshmen through College Graduate Students, Year 5
Award Amount: $10,000 ScholarshipPoints will award a $10,000 scholarship to one lucky member this quarter. All you have to do to become eligible is become a ScholarshipPoints member and log in. It's simple, fun, and completely free!
Available to: High School Seniors through College Graduate Students, Year 5 Award Amount: $5,000
At Earnest, we believe in helping people realize their hopes and dreams through further education. To give back to the community, Earnest launched a scholarship fund that will help 50 students take on less debt. For every student loan we refinance, we put a percentage of our profits towards the scholarship fund. The Earnest Scholarship Fund awards $5,000 to 50 deserving students. There are no essays to write and no fees, to ensure every student has the opportunity to enter the scholarship. Who can enter: Applicants must be enrolled, or soon be enrolled, as a full-time student at an accredited U.S. college or university in Fall 2021. There are no minimum GPA, residency, or major requirements. Applicants can be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (including DACA students).
Available to: Maximum Age, 18
Award Amount: $500 - $100,000 The Paradigm Challenge is open to students up to the age of 18. You may work in a team or alone in creating an original and creative way to help solve real-life problems in homes, schools, communities, and/or around the world. Entries may come in the form of posters, videos, inventions, messages, community events, websites, mobile apps, or anything else that will help save lives. Additionally, you must submit a brief statement of your idea (140 characters or less) in order to qualify for this award.
Available to: High School Seniors through College Graduate Students, Year 5
Award Amount: $1,000 The Future Educator Scholarship is available to incoming and current undergraduate and graduate students. You must be pursuing a degree in education to be eligible for this award.
Available to: Maximum Age 22 Award Amount: $100,000
The Thiel Fellowship is open to those who are aged 22 or younger. This is a two-year program that allows students who are no longer enrolled or who are looking to take a break from their studies the opportunity to work on and/or build their own projects or companies. You must be interested in pursuing an innovative and entrepreneurial idea with a clear plan to change to the world in order to be considered for this award. This fellowship requires that students take two years away from college so they can fully focus on their projects.
Available to: High School Freshmen through High School Seniors
Award Amount: Awards from $14,000 - $18,000
The National High School Oratorical Contest is open to junior high and high school students who are under the age of 20 and citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States. You must prepare an oration on some aspect of the U.S. Constitution, with some emphasis on the duties and obligations of citizens 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 an additional $1,500 scholarship.
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