Looking for College Scholarships? Check These Great Resources
In addition to scholarships from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, there are many other scholarship opportunities to help fund your education.
Some great scholarship search sites include:
- Cappex www.cappex.com
- College Greenlight www.collegegreenlight.com
- Fast Web www.fastweb.com
- Merit Aid www.meritaid.com
- Sallie Mae’s College Answer www.collegeanswer.com
- Scholarship America www.scholarshipamerica.org
- Scholarships.com www.scholarships.com
- Zinch www.zinch.com/scholarships
For undergraduate scholarships:
- Buick Achievers www.buickachievers.com
- Gates Millennium Scholars www.gmsp.org
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation www.jckf.org
- Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars www.jackierobinson.org
- Ron Brown Scholars www.ronbrown.org
For college-specific scholarships:
- Guaranteed Scholarships www.guaranteed-scholarships.com
- Posse Foundation www.possefoundation.org (Students must be nominated by school or community-based organization in 11th grade)
- Questbridge www.questbridge.org (Applications for Questbridge’s College Prep Scholarship are due in 11th grade; applications for Questbridge’s National College Match are due in September of 12th grade)
- Thurgood Marshall College Fund www.thurgoodmarshallfund.net
For one-time scholarships:
- American Indian Graduate Center ($1,000-$10,000) www.aigc.com
- Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund ($2,500-$15,000) www.apiasf.org/scholarship_apiasf.html
- AXA Achievement Scholarship ($10,000-$25,000) www.axa-scholarship.com
- Coca-Cola Scholars ($10,000-$20,000) www.coca-colascholarsfoundation.org
- Davidson Fellows ($10,000, $25,000, or $50,000) www.davidsongifted.org/fellows
- Dell Scholars ($20,000) www.dellscholars.org
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund ($1,000-$20,000) www.hsf.net/en/scholarships/programs
- Horatio Alger (up to $21,000) www.horatioalger.com/scholarships
- United Negro College Fund ($2,500-$10,000) www.scholarships.uncf.org