Are you interested in applying for the High School Senior promised college scholarship program? If your answer is yes, then we have got all the information you will need on this page
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOLARSHIP ORIGIN
Ynette Lopez, a girl from South Florida, was offered a college scholarship in 2007, but she has since learned that she is no longer eligible for it as a senior in high school. According to WSVN, Lopez, along with 96 other students, attended preschool at Hibiscus Elementary School and was promised by an organization that she would not have to pay for her tuition.
According to Lopez’s mother, Zondra Aimes, “they claimed that each kid would get $3,000 per year for whichever four-year institution or university for Florida alone.” She continued by saying she had a contract with the I Have a Dream organization, in which she pledged to push her daughter further in school in exchange for the scholarship. When Lopez was in middle school and her family relocated from Miami Gardens to Broward County, the organization reassured her and her mother that everything would be “great” and that she would still receive the scholarship she had been promised.
She has been informed that she is not “eligible” for the tuition expenses they promised now that she is a senior in high school. When Aimes looked into the matter further, she received two conflicting explanations from two separate sources as to why her daughter was ineligible. One said that the relocation was to blame, while another claimed that they failed to keep up with the program.”
Legal expert Howard Finkelstein studied the contract from the I Have a Dream Foundation and said, “Legally, this is highly complex because the contract is not unambiguous and there is wiggle area for both sides. “The foundation has a convincing case because Ynette stopped attending all of their activities when she left, and Zondra claimed she only got in touch with them sometimes. But Ynette is favored because she excelled academically, gave back to the community, and developed into the kind of student for whom the prize was intended.”
ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP
The leader of the Miami chapter of the I Have a Dream Foundation, Stephanie Trump, claimed that 21 children left the neighborhood as a result of the promise, although Lopez is the only one who did not receive the scholarship. Since the family’s 2014 relocation, according to Trump, Zondra Aimes hasn’t gotten in touch. Despite the circumstances, which resemble Scott’s Tots from The Office in an unpleasant way, Lopez is presently submitting scholarship applications to several institutions.
ELIGIBILITY
- Minimum GPA in High School: 2.0
- Minimum GPA for College: 2.0
- Enrollment Requirement (credit hours) Needed: 6
- Required Credit Hours Completion: 0
- No residency is necessary
- No specific campus
- Program or degree prerequisite: none
- Other criteria for scholarship:
Must be a Greeley-Evans public or charter high school senior who is presently graduating or who graduated within the last three academic years, and must be enrolling in college for the first time since high school. If still in high school while applying for the scholarship, you must send an official high school transcript with your first-semester senior year grades, or if you graduated from high school when applying for the scholarship, you must produce an approved final high school transcript. If the student is a citizen, they must submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
The following criteria must be met in order for graduating seniors to be eligible to receive scholarship money:
Candidates must provide the Financial Aid office with an official final high school transcript that includes their cumulative GPA and graduation date.
CRITERIA FOR QUALIFYING IN ORDER TO RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING FOR THE SECOND YEAR:
You must take part in peer-to-peer advocacy for the Aims Promise Scholarship scheme.
APPLICATION LINK
Interested persons can now apply here https://www.aims.edu/departments/foundation/scholarships/high-school-senior-scholarships
