Mrs. Amy Ebarb

ebarba@spsb.la

Scholarship, Colleges, and Financial Aid Information Links

• Search LOSFA on Facebook for Louisiana scholarships!

• NSU Early Bird Scholarship Deadline is Saturday, October 31.

• Financial Aid Information

• DAR Scholarships

• We want you to take advantage of the No Application Fee for the month of October, and apply to Northwestern State University.  Our first priority deadline is coming up on October 31st, and all you need is a 20 on the ACT to be eligible for our first round of scholarships.  

•  Louisiana College virtual Preview Day on October 24, 2020

• LSUA 

LSUA will also be hosting a limited capacity in- person preview day on November 14^th and another virtual preview day on November 25^th.

We encourage you to promote this information to your students! Thank you for all you do, and we hope to see your students soon!

 Link to Register for all Preview Day Events: http://www.lsua.edu/admissions/visit-campus

Scholly $2,000 Back to School Scholarship - Available to all students
What Do You Meme $30,000 BIPOC Scholarship - Available to all students who are Black Identifying, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC)
Bryce Thompson $100,000 HBCU Scholarship - Available to all students who will be enrolling in an HBCU before December 2021 (or are enrolled already)

The Hagan Scholarship is a nationwide need-based merit scholarship, designed to provide each recipient with the opportunity to Graduate College Debt-Free. Recipients of a Hagan Scholarship will graduate from an Eligible Public High School located in a county having fewer than 50,000 residents or from a remote rural public high school located in a larger county. There is NO Application Fee. To inform your students about the Hagan Scholarship please provide a link from your school’s website to Haganscholarships.org.  

2020 LASAFAP Scholarship 

PURPOSE
The purpose of this scholarship program is to provide a one-time award of $1,000 to eight high school seniors who will be attending their first year of college. Recipients will be selected from public high schools throughout Louisiana.

SELECTION PROCESS
Recipients of the LASAFAP scholarship award will be selected by the LASAFAP Scholarship Committee.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Winners of the LASAFAP scholarship will be selected based upon the following criteria:
     • Official high school transcript from fall semester 2019 (20 points)
     • Extracurricular activities/leadership roles within the community and/or church (20 points)
     • Three letters of recommendation – one each from the candidate’s principal (or assistant principal), a previous or current teacher, and one from a community representative (30 points)
     • A one page essay outlining the candidate’s future goals and ambitions (10 points)
     • Financial need as described in a one page double-spaced narrative (20 points)

SCHOLARSHIP PAYMENT
The scholarship will be made in full payable to the student. It is the responsibility of each scholarship recipient to submit an official college/university schedule and a tuition invoice/fee bill with a $0 balance from the institution to the scholarship chairperson. The scholarship chairperson will submit the required documents to the organizations’ treasurer and president for review and approval. The scholarship will be disbursed when the president and treasurer approve the required documentation.

APPLICATION DEADLINE
The student’s application and companion forms must be submitted online by January 10, 2020.

MAIL-IN APPLICATION FORM
If you prefer to fill out a hard copy of the application and mail it in, please click on one of the links below to download and print the scholarship application. 

Scholarship Application (as a Word document)