A Few Of Connecticut’s Diverse Scholarships
When most people think about the state of Connecticut, they think of it as the ancestor of the Bush family and a center of the insurance industry and banking. While those are all true, the State Constitution is also home to several other industries, such as heavy transport, agriculture, chemicals and plastics. So it should not be surprised when the scholarship is available in this state to reflect this diversity.
The state’s basic scholarship is called the Capitol. While it does state it is only available to the top 20% of any high school class, it then states it decides who gets the money first based on need. On the plus side, the applicant can use the award towards any Associate’s or Bachelor’s program they care to, and it can range from $500 to $3,000 a year.
From there, like a number of other states in New England, Connecticut has an incredible number of scholarships. In fact, the main organization that handles them, the Community Foundation Program, personally boasts it administers over 250 different ones. They can be anything from one of the state’s counties helping an exceptional student in one of its townships to private societies rewarding a high school students electing to go in one academic discipline or another.
Not all the scholarships in the Constitution State are tied to Foundation Program. The national organization Professional Women in Construction awards three women inside the state scholarships to study professionally-related fields. This includes going for Bachelor’s in architecture, engineering or other construction-related occupations. The amount varies depending on the school, circumstances and overall costs.
There are also scholarships for various ethnic groups. As Connecticut has a very large Portuguese community, it has set up a scholarship fund for the best and brightest of their nationality. Each year it hand out four awards of $1,000 each to a high school student of Portuguese descent to the college degree of their choice. Then there’s the EJ Josey Scholarship from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It provides two African-American students scholarships of $2,000 each towards pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in library science. It is an essay competition and the winner(s) must go to an Association-approved program.
If that isn’t enough, there is the Connecticut Association of Latinos in Higher Education Competitive Scholarship. Besides being of Latin descent, the student must have a 3.0 grade point average or higher. The applicants must also be involved in the education of fellow Latinos in one capacity or another and be a Connecticut resident for a least one year. If he or she qualifies, he or she will get $1,000 for an accredited Bachelor’s program of choice.
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