Have a left handed red-headed child, your husband a retired firefighter, or were you born in an airplane on a Thursday? Some times the requirements for "merit" based scholarships can be very confusing. Please remember to check with the college of your choice for their in house individual school scholarships, as the awards can be very large. The focus of this scholarship page is general merit based scholarships. In the past, some scholarship committees held a dim view of homeschoolers. That is not the case today! However, many of us don't have the time or the resources to look for what is available to our children.
We hope that this page literally will be of value to you. :) As more homeschoolers are winning merit scholarships, our efforts as homeschooling parents are supported in a real way that the outside community can understand.
At this time, I will be focusing on seniors entering college scholarships. As that base grows, I will add scholarships that are written for students already enrolled in college. If by viewing the following links, you find that the deadline for the scholarship has passed, please recheck in a few months. Many of the companies don't update the scholarship site until closer to application time. Often the deadlines for application are very early in the senior year of high school, so you really can't begin looking at this information too soon. If you are aware of a merit based scholarship that is not listed, please email us, info@arch-homeschool.org so we can share the information.
Good luck!
General
All-Ink Scholarship
Al's Formal Wear Scholarship
Car Donors Scholarship
College-Computers.net general essay on technology
Discover Financial Services Scholarship (only open to high school juniors)
EF Tours Scholarship
Hamman Foundation (merit, but does require financial reports)
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Scholarship
Keep America Bountiful Scholarship (open to 7th-12th grade)
Knights of Columbus Scholarship
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
Newsweek Education Program
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Student of the Year Award
Textbookx.com
Tylenol
Zinch Scholarships
Arts
American Harlequin Dance Scholarship
Computer Science, Engineering, Science and Technology
The Collegiate Inventors Competition
Miron Science and Technology
Environmental Concerns/Global
The Goldman Sachs Foundation and Asia Society
Preserve Our Planet
History
Sons of the Republic of Texas
Literature
Signet Classic Student Scholarship Essay Contest
Math
Philosophical
The American Chesterton Society
Volunteer Based
Angel Soft Scholarship
For Students in College:
Elder & Leemaur Publishers
The American Chesterson Society