[United States] USA Funds Scholarship - Florida Atlantic University
USA Funds® will award up to $3.2 million nationwide in new, renewable scholarships to students with economic need through USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships®. Applications will be accepted online beginning Dec. 15, 2006, through Feb. 15, 2007.
USA Funds is the nation’s leading education-loan guarantor. A nonprofit organization, USA Funds works to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access and success by providing and supporting financial and other valued services.
Eligibility
USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships are open to high-school seniors, currently enrolled college students or incoming college students who
- Plan to enroll or are enrolled in full- or half-time undergraduate or full-time graduate- or professional-degree coursework at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational/technical school. GED recipients also are eligible. Students must plan to enroll or be enrolled beginning with the fall-2007 term through Feb. 1, 2008.
- If studying abroad, are attending or planning to attend a postsecondary institution that is eligible to participate in student-aid programs under Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act.
- Have an annual adjusted gross family income of $35,000 or less, as documented on a 2006 federal 1040 income-tax return on which the applicant is claimed as a federal tax exemption.
- Are U.S. citizens or eligible noncitizens. Students studying in the U.S. on an F1 visa are not eligible. Eligible noncitizens must be permanent U.S. resident aliens with a Green Card, or refugees with a Departure Record (Form I-94) from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service showing one of the following designations:
- Refugee.
- Asylum granted.
- Alien paroled into the U.S. for at least one year.
- Alien granted a stay of deportation due to fear of persecution on account of race, religion or political opinion.
- Conditional entrant (if I-94 was issued before April 1980).
- Are not currently in default on a federal education loan.
Students attending postsecondary institutions, such as United States service academies, that do not charge tuition and room and board to the general student body are not eligible to receive awards under this scholarship program.
Applicants from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and all U.S. territories and commonwealths are eligible for USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships. Priority consideration for the awards will be given to applicants from Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming, states that USA Funds serves as the federally designated guarantor of federal student loans, and from Washington and Idaho, states that USA Funds’ affiliate Northwest Education Loan Association® serves as the federally designated guarantor of student loans.
Scholarships awarded under this program to residents of Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington states are made possible with the support of Education Assistance Foundation.
Additionally, up to 50 percent of the scholarship awards will be targeted to applicants who are members of an ethnic-minority group or have a documented physical disability. Ethnic-minority groups are defined as follows:
- Alaskan Native.
- American Indian.
- Asian.
- Black/African-American.
- Hispanic or Latino.
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals are considered to have a disability if they have a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, have a record of such an impairment or are regarded as having such an impairment. Applicants who are physically disabled must submit a doctor’s statement describing the disability, including the degree and limitation on their ability.
Please be sure to follow the links to the granting organization’s web page for the most current details, as requirements and deadlines are subject to change.
Type of award:
Career Based
Award amount:
award scholarships of $1,500.
Deadline:
February 15, 2007 - 00:00
Contact:
marketing@fau.edu or Phone at 800-299-4328 (Admissions)
Website/e-mail:
www.usafunds.org/planning/access_to_education_scholarship/index.html
