Major External Scholarship Programs
"Bright Flight" Missouri Higher Education
Academic Scholarships
Minimum qualifications:
- Score in the top 3% of all Missouri
high school students taking the ACT or SAT test in
their senior year. For
2006-2007, the minimum ACT is 30 and the minimum
on the SAT is 780 Math and 780 Verbal.
- Recipients must enroll in the academic year following
graduation from high school.
- U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- Missouri resident.
Award amount: $2000 per year.
Enrollment Requirements: Full-time
enrollment is required. Center for Distance Learning
and Independent Study (CDIS) courses DO NOT COUNT toward
Bright Flight's full-time enrollment requirement.
Application procedure: The
Missouri Department of Higher Education (MDHE) will
receive student's approved Missouri college or university
choices
from their ACT or SAT assessment records along with
student's ACT and SAT composite score(s). Eligible students
will
receive approval letters from MDHE. To be eligible
for the 2007-08 academic year, a student must achieve
a qualifying
composite score by the June 2007 ACT and SAT dates.
Renewal: Satisfactory
academic progress and full time enrollment.
Missouri Teacher Education Scholarship
Minimum qualifications:
- Rank in the top 15% of their high
school class or score in the top 15 national percentile
on an ACT or SAT examination.
- Plan to be a teacher.
- U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- Missouri
resident.
- If you do not teach after graduation,
you must repay one-half of the scholarship at 9.5%
interest.
Award
amount: $2000, non-renewable.
Application procedure: Applications
are available from the Missouri Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education,
P.O. Box 480, Jefferson City, MO 65102 or on their website
at http://dese.mo.gov/divteachqual/scholarships/index.html.
Applications must reach the Department of Elementary
and Secondary
Education by their deadline date of February 15th.
National Merit/Achievement Scholarship
Minimum qualifications:
- Must be a National
Merit/Achievement finalist. This involves taking
the PSAT test the fall of your junior
year in high school and the SAT subsequently.
- Declare
University of Missouri-Columbia as your first choice
with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
- U.S.
Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- Enroll at MU the first
semester after high school.
Award amount: $1000 minimum;
up to $2000 if you demonstrate financial need.
Nonresident students also receive
a full out-of-state tuition waiver.
Application
procedure: Contact your high school guidance counselor
for additional information.
Recommendations for Locating
Other External Scholarships
We recommend contacting local and national organizations
or foundations that may have an interest in your background
or potential interest in your future. Free
Scholarship Searches are available at this web site to help you locate
possible aid sources. Also, you should check with your
high school guidance counselor who may know of local
scholarships not listed with these free national scholarship
searches.
ROTC
Programs
The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is designed to recruit, educate and
commission officer candidates. Use the links below to find out more on the
scholarship opportunities available through the ROTC program:
Air Force - http://airforce.missouri.edu/
Army - http://armyrotc.missouri.edu/
Navy - http://nrotc.missouri.edu/
International
Students
The MU
International Center's web site provides scholarship
and fellowship information.
Scholarship Scams
Before you pay someone to find scholarship
opportunities for you, check out the Scholarship
Scams site of the Federal Trade Commission. It lists
the "tell tale" signs of scholarship scams.
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