Exploration Scholarships

This cartoon took identify November 30, 2021. Stay tuned for an annunciation about our winners and more information about future scholarship opportunities!

Offset early, stress less.

ninth & 10th graders: use MyCoalition tools for a gamble to win a $500 scholarship toward the cost of your college exploration and preparation activities – from campus visits, to summertime programs, to tutoring.

Meet past winners

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Bengina Amponsah, from Tarpon Springs, Florida, plans to use the scholarship for visiting campuses out of country and attending summer programs.

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David Araiza, from Moses Lake, Washington, plans to utilise the scholarship to purchase school supplies.

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Nathalie Vazquez, from Redwood City, California, plans to use the scholarship to help embrace the costs of school supplies and technology.

How to enter

It'due south every bit simple as creating or logging into your free MyCoalition account, our higher-planning platform. In one case in that location, follow the tool tips to complete My Story, a special section of MyCoalition for students in 9th and 10th grade.

In My Story, you'll complete the following sections:

About Me

Here, you'll enter some basic details about you lot, like your name, high school, academic interests, and whether y'all participate in any community-based organizations that provide higher advising services.

The Locker

You'll also have a chance to practise using this free, private storage infinite, a nifty tool to continue track of all you practise through high school. Upload a file or record a video to be entered into the drawing.

Become started.

Who is eligible?

Eligible students must:

  • be a current 9th or 10th grade loftier school student (graduating in 2024 or 2025)

  • exist at least 13 years of age

  • have a U.Southward. address or be a U.S. citizen

  • complete the steps outlined above past eleven:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Nov 30, 2021

Read the official scholarship rules.

How and when will winners exist chosen?

A total of vi $500 scholarships will be given to members of the Classes of 2024 and 2025.

One-half of the scholarships volition be reserved for students continued to a community-based organisation, which students can betoken every bit they consummate the Most Me section of My Story in their MyCoalition account.

Winners will be notified by Dec xv, 2021.

Read the official scholarship rules.

FAQs

What are the benefits of entering into this scholarship drawing?

In improver to the chance to win $500 toward your college exploration and grooming activities, you'll likewise be taking great steps to brand the most of MyCoalition tools, provided by 150+ top colleges and universities.

Volition colleges see the files I upload or videos I tape in the Locker?

The Locker is your private, unlimited digital storage space. No one will run into the information you store in that location unless you cull to share a file directly with a contact or eventually upload a file to a college application.

Will I exist evaluated on the information I enter in My Story for this scholarship?

The Exploration Scholarship winners will be chosen via a drawing. We're not judging the information you provide, across seeing that the required sections are complete. This scholarship program is designed to encourage you to take good first steps toward preparing for college, not to evaluate you.

What is a community-based system and why are one-half of the scholarships reserved for students working with one?

A community-based system, or CBO, is a grouping (for example, a neighborhood or church-based organization) that provides free assistance with your college application process, academic support or other education goals.

These organizations tin be powerful support systems for students looking to reach their higher educational activity goals. The Coalition maintains a vetted, national registry of these organizations so that CBOs and Coalition colleges can hands connect with each other in support of students.

What is the Coalition for College?

We're more than than 150+ colleges and universities working together to assistance students learn nigh, prepare for and apply to college. We provide free college-planning tools via our digital platform, MyCoalition.

How will you protect the information I provide?

The following outline the steps nosotros accept to protect your privacy:

  • The privacy policy for the Coalition for Higher

  • The privacy policy for CollegeNET, the MyCoalition technology provider

What can I use the scholarship for?

We'll inquire the winners to verify that they'll apply the $500 scholarship toward higher exploration and preparation activities, similar helping pay for a trip to visit campuses, funding a summertime program, or tutoring services.

Not sure what the right steps are for you to take every bit you explore and set up? Past creating your MyCoalition account, you'll receive regular communication about the college process and opportunities to join u.s. at virtual events for more than insight on preparing to apply to college.

By creating a MyCoalition business relationship and finishing the steps to be entered into this drawing, volition I be committed to using the Coalition application?

No! How you utilise to higher will continue to be your selection. MyCoalition is much more than a college application, and we promise that all students volition employ the tools to assist them fix, regardless of how they utilise.

Merely one dainty do good of completing My Story: the questions you answer in Most Me will be carried forward to the Profile section of MyCoalition, giving you a bound start (and saving you fourth dimension) on completing your Coalition applications.

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