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Miscellaneous
AFC/EFSI $50k Giveaway Scholarship Sweepstakes
BHESC members, AFC and EFSI, offer $50,000 in scholarships, two $5,000 awards and sixteen $2,500 awards, to first-year students who will be enrolled in an accredited college or trade school for the Fall 2007 semester. Winners will be selected by random drawing. One entry per person.
Association of Texas Lenders for Education (ATLE)
Offers a scholarship to the son or daughter of a current employee of a FFELP participating Texas college, university, or proprietary school's Financial Aid office. For additional eligibility requirements and information, download the application (PDF).
Apogee Search Scholarship Program
Offers a $1,000 scholarship to the essay contest winner who best explains how Google's evolution will affect the Internet and those in the Search Engine Marketing industry.
The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation
Offers 50 four-year $20,000 scholarships ($5,000 per year for four years) and 200 four-year $4,000 scholarships ($1,000 per year for four years) to high school or home-school seniors maintaining a minimum 3.00 G.P.A., who are planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution.
National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) Anne Ford Scholarship
Offers a $10,000 scholarship award to a high school senior with an identified learning disability (LD) who is pursuing a four-year undergraduate degree.
The Haraldson Foundation
Offers four-year scholarships to University of Texas at Austin students who demonstrate academic excellence, financial need and strong leadership skills.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Offers fifty scholarships of up to $30,000 per year to students attending community colleges or two-year institutions in the US and planning to transfer to four-year institutions, and thirty scholarships of up to $50,000 per year to graduate students. Applicants must be outstanding individuals demonstrating financial need.
Mensa Education & Research Foundation
Offers scholarships based entirely on essays written by applicants. Consideration is not given to grades, academic program or financial need.
National Association for Campus Activities Foundation
Offers numerous scholarships to undergraduate and graduate student leaders and associate members.
Patient Advocate Foundation Scholarships for Survivors Program
Offers 10 $3,000 scholarships to students under the age of 25, who are survivors of, or who are currently battling cancer or a critical or life threatening disease.
Jackie Robinson Foundation
Offers scholarships of up to $7,200 annually to underserved high school students showing leadership potential and demonstrating financial need to attend an accredited 4-year college or university of their choice.
The Sallie Mae Fund Scholarship Programs
Offers approximately $2.5 million each year in college scholarships to low-income and minority students. The Sallie Mae Fund is committed to addressing the three barriers to college access that low-income and minority students face today; lack of information regarding higher education and financial aid, financial need, and academic preparedness.
Texas Historical Commission Preservation Fellows Program
Offers a $5,000 stipend (to cover eight weeks of employment and living expenses) to at least two award recipients. The Preservation Fellows Program was created to build interest in and awareness of historic preservation among college-aged young adults, specifically those from diverse cultural backgrounds. The program targets Undergraduate and Graduate students, encouraging interest in pursuing study in the fields of history, preservation, architecture, archaeology, landscape architecture, downtown revitalization and heritage tourism.
TG's Charley Wootan Grant Program
Offers grants ranging from $1,000 to $4,245 to students who have difficulties pursuing their higher education dreams because of financial need. Grants are awarded for one year only; however, recipients are encouraged to reapply in subsequent years provided eligibility requirements are met.
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Offers scholarships of up to $30,000 to students pursuing graduate degrees in public service fields and are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in public service.
TruWest Credit Union DiSylvester Memorial Scholarship
Offers one two-year scholarship to a Univeristy of Texas at Austin Junior. At time of application submission, applicant must be a fully admitted, full-time Sophomore who will attain Junior-level status in the following semester.
 
Disclaimer
Students in search of scholarships to pay for college may find some of the links here useful. This information is provided for informational purposes only. Inclusion does not constitute endorsement. Neither the Office of Student Financial Services nor The University of Texas at Austin can guarantee the accuracy or the timeliness of information found at any of the links above. It is critical that students verify information, particularly where deadlines are concerned.