Honors Opportunity Scholarship
For Spring 2025. The Honors Opportunity Scholarship is open to full-time active and current University Honors Program students with a 3.20 GPA or higher. This scholarship is intended to help UHP students with expenses related to their education. Applicants may request a specific scholarship amount to be used for a specific need and must provide a short personal statement that will be made available to donors to the University Honors Program (UHP). Donors will have the opportunity to select and sponsor individual Honors Opportunity Scholarships online and during the University Honors Program annual fundraiser, An Opportuni-Tea. Awarded funds will not be released to individuals until their Thank You card(s) have been submitted to UHP for distribution to their Honors Opportunity sponsor(s).
- Award
- Varies
- Scopes
- University Honors Program
- Deadline
- 02/28/2025
- Supplemental Questions
- Please list how much money you are requesting ($250 maximum) and specifically what you need it for. Examples of acceptable funding requests are book costs, lab fees, specialized equipment for your major, MCAT/LSAT/GRE fees, etc. Your reason can be outside this list, but please be specific when making your request.
- Provide a personal statement about you and your scholarship request. Include your major, class, a few words about yourself, and what you are requesting support of. Scholarship sponsors will be reading your statement during University Honors Program fundraising. Your personal statement may be edited by Honors staff.
- Honors Opportunity scholarships will be posted in an online fundraising webpage for the Opportuni-Tea (https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/25ISUHonors). Do you give the University Honors Program consent to post your picture and personal statement on the Honors Opportunity fundraising webpage? Please note that this is optional.
- If you consented to have your picture used, please upload an image of yourself: