Scholarship Opportunities
Foothill Scholarship Application
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Book Scholarship
- Deadline: Friday, February 1, 2019
- For Bakersfield African American Graduating Seniors
Bakersfield Republican Women Federation
- Website: http://www.bakersfieldrwf.org/userfiles/11/file/SaraTakiiScholarship2019.pdf
- Each year the Bakersfield Republican Women Federated offers educational scholarships to young female students through our Sara Takki Scholarship Fund
- One requirement is you must be a registered or preregistered to vote Republican. More information at: https://registertovote.ca.gov
- Kern Community Foundation – Higher Education Scholarship One Application – Dozens of Opportunities
- Deadline March 1, 2019
- Rod & Bob Grimm Scholarship for children of employees of Grimmway Enterprises, Inc.
The goal of this program is to encourage our employees’ children to:
- Graduate from High School eligible to attend a four-year college or university and earn a college degree.
- The maximum reward can be a $10,000 college scholarship and a computer. The chart on the following page displays the scholarship available for graduating High School students. All applications will be reviewed and are subject to board approval.
- Come by Career Center in Room I-18 or go to the Foothill Counseling website for an application https://foothill.kernhigh.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=611399&type=d&pREC_ID=1342973
- Deadline: March 15, 2019
- Imagine America Scholarships
Website: https://iafportal.org/user/register
- Approximately 400 schools participate in the Imagine America Scholarship and Award Programs, and you could be eligible to receive a scholarship or award.
- McDonald’s HACER National Scholarship
Website: https://aim.applyists.net/HACER/Initiate
- Eligibility Requirements
- You’re a high school senior
- You’re a legal U.S. resident
- You’re younger than 21 years old
- You carry a minimum 3.0 GPA
- You’re eligible to attend a two- or four‑year college or university with a full-time course of study
- You’ll disclose other scholarship programs that you’ve applied for
- You’ll enroll and attend an accredited institution in the academic year after your selection (verification needed, as scholarship funds are paid directly to the schools)
- You have at least one parent of Hispanic heritage Hispanic/Latino is an ethnic category, not a racial category; student applicants may be of any race. Applicants must be from a family that came from at least one of these countries/territories: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Spain, Uruguay, or Venezuela.
- Deadline: February, 4 , 2019