Good Lawyers/Good People Scholarship
Sponsor: Simeone & Miller LLP
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled or accepted as an undergraduate or law student. Applicant must submit a written statement or video presentation describing the value of using the law to improve people’s lives.

Good Works Scholarship
Sponsor: Karin Riley Porter – Virginia Criminal Defense Attorney
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to all undergraduate, graduate, and law school students, as well as incoming college freshmen at an accredited U.S. educational institution with at least a 3.0 GPA. Applicant must submit an essay on their leadership and dedication to giving back to the community.

Hispanic Heritage Essay Contest
Sponsor: Optimum and TelevisaUnivision
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to legal residents of the United States who attend school in an Optimum serviceable area of Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, or West Virginia. Applicant must be enrolled in the 6th-12th grade. In 500 words or less, applicant must share what connects them to Hispanic Culture.

International High School Essay Contest
Sponsor: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to college-bound high school seniors. Applicant must submit an essay on the following prompt: “In a world powered by artificial intelligence, what does it mean to lead with integrity and purpose?”

Medical Education Scholarship
Sponsor: American Medical Women’s Association
Amount: $500
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to women currently enrolled in medical school.

Money Metals Exchange Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Money Metals Exchange
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college and graduate students with an interest in economics, specifically the tradition of the Austrian school. However, students do not need to be an economic major to be eligible. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to the economy.

National DHIA Scholarship for Veterinary Students
Sponsor: National DHIA
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students enrolled in a college of veterinary medicine in the United States which is accredited by the AVMA Council on Education. Applicant must be in their third or fourth year of the program and must have a declared a track or emphasis area.

National Poetry Competition
Sponsor: The Poetry Society
Amount: Up to £5000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Competition is open to anyone aged 17 or over at the time of entering. International entries are welcome. Applicant must submit a previously unpublished single poem.

Nebraska Broadcasters Association Scholarships
Sponsor: Nebraska Broadcasters Association
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students who have completed at least one half of their degree and majoring in broadcasting, communications, or a related field at a four-year public or private college or university. Applicant must have a Nebraska connection (graduate of a Nebraska high school or attending a Nebraska college or university).

NEWH | Mid-South (TN, MS, AR) Region Scholarship
Sponsor: NEWH: The Hospitality Industry Network – Mid-South Region
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students attending an accredited college in Tennessee, Arkansas, or Mississippi. Applicant must have completed at least half the requirements for a degree and must be pursuing a career objective in the Hospitality industry (Hotel/Restaurant management, Culinary, Food Service, Architecture, Design, etc.)

Patriot’s Pen Competition
Sponsor: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Competition is open to students in grades 6-8 in the United States, its territories and its possessions. Applicant must submit an essay on the following theme: “How Are You Showing Patriotism and Support for Our Country?

PinkRose Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: The PinkRose Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to individuals who are legal residents of the United States of America and under the age of 25 who have lost a parent or legal guardian to breast cancer. Applicant must have a high school diploma or equivalent and must be pursuing post-secondary education or certificate training.

Plan for College Sweepstakes
Sponsor: SallieMae
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are of the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which they reside and who are students, parents, guidance counselors, or financial aid officers at the time of entry. Applicant must complete an online registration form.

Schwarzkopf Professional Shaping Future Scholarship
Sponsor: Professional Beauty Association
Amount: $2,000.00
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in an accredited cosmetology program in the U.S. resulting in a cosmetology license. Applicant must be at least 18 years of age and be able to demonstrate a financial need.

School Survey Sweepstakes
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Sweepstakes is open to current high school students, high school alumni who graduated within the last four years, and the parents of those students or alumni. Individual must take a survey on a United States high school.

Second Career Scholarship
Sponsor: Selected Independent Funeral Homes Educational Trust
Amount: $1,500.00
Closing Date: October 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students enrolled full-time in a mortuary science program at an ABFSE accredited school in North America who is not related to an owner of a funeral home currently in operation. 

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