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DON’T MISS THESE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES!
Awards help low-to-moderate-income students pay for
higher education.
USA Funds accepts applications for $3.2 million in
scholarships
USA Funds®, the nation’s leading education-loan
guarantor, announces that it is accepting applications online for a total of
$3.2 million in scholarships to assist college students from
low-to-moderate-income households.
USA Funds will award more than 2,100 USA Funds Access to
Education Scholarships® to qualified students nationwide for the 2008-2009
academic year.
The program offers $1,500 scholarships to qualified
full-time or half-time undergraduates and to full-time graduate and
professional students. Applicants for the scholarships must be enrolled or plan
to enroll in coursework at accredited two- or four-year colleges, universities
or vocational/technical schools beginning with the fall-2008 term through Feb.
1, 2009. Due to funding reductions imposed by federal legislation, USA Funds
offers these scholarships as one-time awards. If subsequent financial
conditions permit, USA Funds will provide renewal awards and will notify
scholarship recipients how to apply for renewal awards.
The program assists students from households with annual
incomes of $35,000 or less.“In keeping with our nonprofit mission to enhance
postsecondary-education preparedness, access and success, these scholarships
are designed to help increase the college-going rates of low-
to-moderate-income students,” said Carl C. Dalstrom, USA Funds president and
CEO. “Federal studies show that these students attend college at significantly
lower rates than do their higher-income classmates.”
The application deadline is Feb. 15, 2008.
For complete eligibility information and to apply online,
students should visit http://www.usafunds.org/planning/access_to_education_scholarship/index.htm A Spanish-language
version of the usafunds website is also available using the link below
http://www.usafunds.org/planning/access_to_education_scholarship_spanish/index.htm
Scholarships awarded under this program to residents of
Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state are made possible with
the support of College Spark Washington.
To apply, students should click on the link below…
http://www.usafunds.org/planning/access_to_education_scholarship/index.htm#Scholarship_Application
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