Direct Textbook Essay Scholarship Contest
Sponsor: DirectTextbook.com
Amount: $2,000.00
Closing Date: September 12, 2025
Description: Contest is open to graduating high school seniors, college, and postgraduate students in the United States. Applicant must submit an original essay of 500 words or fewer on the prompt: “Climbing a Shifting Career Ladder: What Career Success Means When AI Displaces Entry-Level Jobs.”

ASF Translation Awards
Sponsor: American-Scandinavian Foundation
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: September 15, 2025
Description: Applicant must submit an outstanding English translation of poetry, fiction, drama or literary prose originally writing in a Nordic language.

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.

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