Scholarships
The RPA Counseling staff and Future Center (Glacier Bldg) is your place to find help with all the details related to your scholarship search.
During your senior year, plan on spending time in the Future Center to work on scholarships. When you make it part of your weekly schedule, you’ll find that everything you need to get done gets done!
We all know that college can be expensive. That’s why RPA has compiled this list of scholarships and resources to help you pay for your educational goals.
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Scholarships are gifts – free money – for educational purposes. Most people are familiar with the idea of athletic scholarships, but in reality, all sorts of organizations give scholarships for all sorts of reasons. The Central Oregon region offers many local scholarships for students throughout the area. Last year, RPA students earned over $500,000 to support their academic pursuits!
The first step is to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid:
Create your Federal Student Aid ID (FSA ID) This ID is needed to sign your FAFSA (below).
Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
| Due Date | Interest Area | Provider & Scholarship | Description & Criteria | Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opens in April and closes in January annually | NROTC/Military | Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship | Application process starts junior year. The purpose of the Navy ROTC Program is to educate and train qualified young men and women for service as commissioned officers in the Navy's unrestricted line, the Navy Nurse Corps and the Marine Corps. The scholarship can go towards attendance at numerous colleges. | Full tuition and Fees |
| 9/30 | All | Cirkled No Sweat Scholarship | Open to all students grades 8-12. Complete the student profile | $2,500 |
| Sept 30 - Dec 5th | Various Scholarships | Bold.org Scholarships | Various scholarships available through the organization. | $500-$2000 |
| 9/30 | Junior or senior in high school or college student with a minimum GPA of 2.5 or better | Courage to Grow Scholarship | Courage to Grow Scholarship Essay "explain in 250 words or less why you believe that you should be awarded this scholarship" | $500 |
| 10/12 | Video Contest - Tuition Giveaway | Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway | Must be 18 years old. Create a 15 – 60 second video/TikTok in which you tell us your career goals, why you need tuition assistance, and how your life, community, and the world will be improved if you are able to pursue your goals with the help of the tuition assistance, then submit the Video publicly through your TikTok account using the official Challenge (“Tuition Dreamin’”) sound and #DrPepperTuitionContest. You must follow @drpepper on TikTok | $25,000 or $100,000 |
| 10/17 | Essay Contest | League of Women Voters | The subject of the essay is “Why Vote?” (The ‘Y’ is for Yes, Youth, and Why?) The contest is open to high school seniors, Class of 2023, in Deschutes County. See link for full details. | $500 |
| 10/18 | Participated in High School Sports | Heisman Scholarship | Eligibility begins with maintaining a weighted GPA of 3.0 (B average) or better. Applicants also need to be proven leaders and role models within their school and community. And applicants must participate or have participated in high school athletics in grades 9-12. | $1,000 |
| 10/31 | Zombie Apocalypse Scholarship Essay: "Imagine that your high school or college has been overrun with zombies. Your math professor, the cafeteria ladies, and even your best friend have all joined the walking dead. Flesh out a plan to avoid the zombies, including where you’d hide and the top-five things you’d bring to stay alive." (250 words or less) | Unigo | Must be 13 years of age or older, legal resident and planning to enroll in a post-secondary institution by 2025. | $2,000 |
| 10/30 | Financial Education - open to all. | Bank of America Financial Education Contest | Students Fill out a registration form and are entered into a drawing as they complete financial education lessons. | $5,000-$10,000 |
| 10/31 | Academic and leadership experience | Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation | High School senior planning to pursue a degree at a U.S. post-secondary institution. | $20,000 |
| 11/1 | IT interest | Electric: Mobile Device IT Innovation Scholarship | Senior-Students applying must submit an essay where you explain, present, inspire, or otherwise convince us about your great idea for a solution that could help the world with our ever-expanding usage of mobile devices and our collective needs to manage, secure, use and improve them. | $1,000 |
| 11/17 | Academics/Financial Need | Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship | Seniors who demonstrate academic achievement and financial need (family income less than $95,000). Apply through the Common application. More information about the scholarship may be found here: https://www.jkcf.org/our-scholarships/college-scholarship-program/ | Vaires |
| 12/31 | Aircraft Electronics & Maintenance | Aircraft Electronics Association | Multiple scholarships available related to aircraft maintenance. Career plans essay | $1,000 (20 awards) |
| 12/31 | General | Burger King Scholars | High school senior with 2.5 or higher cumulative GPA and plan to enroll in a four-year college next fall. Applicants will complete the online application focused on work or volunteer experience and academic achievement. | $1,000 - $12,500 |
| 1/7 | LGBTQ+ | Pride Foundation | Scholarship program supports LGBTQ+ students who are leaders—in their own lives, in their families, in their home communities, in their fields of study, in their workplaces, or in our movements for justice. | Varies |
| 1/15 | ALL | MENSA Education and Research Foundation | Multiple Scholarships available through one applications. Seniors, write an essay of not more than 550 words explaining their career, academic and/or vocational goals and how they plan to achieve those goals. | $500-$5,000 |
| 1/19 | Asian and/or Pacific Islander. Financial need. | APIASF Scholarship | Senior who is Asian and/or Pacific Islander, demonstrates financial need, completes the FAFSA, has cumulative 2.7 non weighted gpa. | $2,500-$15,000 |
| 1/13 | Leadership, Political Courage | JFK Essay Contest | Grades 9-12, submit an essay, no more than 1,000 words. Essays must describe an act of political courage by a U.S. elected official who served during or after 1917, the year John F. Kennedy was born. The official may have addressed an issue at the local, state, or national level. | 1st place - $10,000 2nd place - $3,000 Finalists - $1,000 |
| 1/31 | NESA STEM scholarship is awarded to one Eagle Scout each year who plans to major in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics field (STEM). | NESA STEM Scholarship | Students must apply in their senior year of high school, or in the following year if their Eagle Scout board of review was held after December 31 during their senior year in high school. | $50,000 |
Additional Scholarship Programs:
| Office of Student Access & Completion (OSAC) | November 1 – March 1 (Early Bird – February 15) |
| Pride Foundation Scholarships | Due January 11 |
| Zeta Phi Beta | Due January 26 |
| Oregon Latino Scholarship Fund | Due January 28 |
| Black United Fund of Oregon | Due January 29 |
| Grieg Lodge | Due February 15 |
| Oregon Jewish Community Foundation | Due March 1 |
| Red and Gena Leonard Foundation | Due March 15 |
| Benton Community Foundation | Due March 27 |
| Oregon School Counselor Association | Due April 1 |
| Harrington Family Foundation | Due April 2 |
| Stand for Children | Due September 12 |
