Be the Boss Scholarship
Sponsor: Go Skills
Amount: $2,000.00
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to female high school and college students who want to start their own online business. Applicant must share all the reasons they are scared to start their business and who their female boss role model is.

Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Sponsor: Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Amount: Up to $250,000
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Competition is open to students between the ages of 13 and 18 years of age. Applicant must explain a big scientific idea in physics, life sciences or mathematics with a short video two minutes maximum).

Catching the Dream Scholarship
Sponsor: Catching the Dream
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Applicant must be 1/4 or more degree American Indian and be an enrolled member of a U.S. tribe. Applicant must be attending or planning on attending a college or university within the U.S. on a full-time basis that is fully accredited.

CBQ Method Scholarship
Sponsor: CBQ Method
Amount: $3,000.00
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students who are majoring in Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or Neurolinguistic Programing who are currently operating research related to smoking cessation.

Equipment Leases Inc. College Scholarships
Sponsor: Equipment Leases
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled or have been accepted to enroll in an accredited college or university in the U.S. Applicant must submit an essay on the following prompt: “If you were to own a business, explain how you would treat employees, vendors, suppliers, and customers. What kind of corporation would it be and what assets or skills would you be able to bring to the industry to make it successful?”

Financial Education PSA Scholarship
Sponsor: High Rise Financial
Amount: $1,500.00
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current undergraduate and graduate students in the United States. Applicant must create a PSA on a topic related to financial literacy.

Gates Scholarship
Sponsor: The Gates Scholarship
Amount: Cost of attendance that is not already covered by other financial aid and the EFC
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to exceptional, Pell-eligible, minority, high school seniors who are student leaders. Ideal candidates will have an outstanding academic record in high school (top 10% of graduating class), demonstrated leadership ability, and exceptional personal success skills.

Jo Ann Serpico Scholarship
Sponsor: Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans
Amount: Up to $2,000
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students who are of 50% or more Italian extraction demonstrating leadership, community service, high academic achievement, and a resident of Illinois.

Marie Palello Scholarship
Sponsor: Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans
Amount: Up to $2,000
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students who are of 50% or more of Italian extraction demonstrating leadership, community service, high academic achievement, and are a resident of Illinois.

McGuire Law Firm Scholarship
Sponsor: McGuire Law Firm
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to pre-law undergraduate students and students entering law school in the fall of 2025. Applicant must submit an essay on the area of law they intend to pursue.

Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers & Firemen Scholarship
Sponsor: Mississippi State Office of Financial Aid
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students enrolled full-time at the undergraduate level at any state-supported (public) college or university in Mississippi. Applicant must be a certified dependent child (under the age of 23) or spouse of any Mississippi law enforcement officer, full-time firefighter or volunteer firefighter who suffered fatal injuries or wounds or became permanently and totally disabled which occurred in the performance of the official and appointed duties of his or her office.

Trust Fund Higher Education Scholarship
Sponsor: Delaware Tribe of Indians
Amount: Up to $3,200
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to Delaware Tribal members attending college. Applicant must have at least a 2.7 GPA in the last semester they attended.

Varsity Tutors College Scholarship Contest
Sponsor: Varsity Tutors
Amount: $200.00
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 16 years of age or older. Applicant must submit an essay on the following prompt: “What changes do you hope to see in education over the next 10 years?”

Bright Future Scholarship
Sponsor: The Goostree Law Group
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: September 17, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students with at least a 3.0 GPA. Applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States and have financial need with an annual household income of less than $75,000. Applicant must submit an essay on how they have demonstrated leadership, determination, and passion throughout their academic and/or personal life.

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