Is Hispanic Scholarship Fund for Truly High Achievers Only?

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I’m trying to decide which scholarships I should encourage my son to pursue this fall as a senior. He’s a good student but not great. He isn’t the most motivated student but is going to be taking a heavy load this fall that includes 5 AP classes, so I know there’s going to be a lot of arm twisting to get him to do these scholarship applications as well as his college applications.

I’m curious if he even has a chance at getting any money from The Hispanic Scholarship Fund. He has approx a W3.80 GPA, 1200 SAT, no Varsity sports—just JV, no leadership activities—just participation, and some community service. We don’t qualify for financial aid.

Anyone have a child with similar stats get the scholarship or know of someone who did? Any amount. The only student I know who got it is my nephew and he was a great student and wound up at a top 20 university, so I’m not too optimistic.

I’d appreciated any feedback at all. Thanks!

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Has he applied for the National Hispanic Recognition Program?

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He doesn’t qualify, unfortunately. Missed the psat score by a mere 10 points. And didn’t take his first AP classes until junior year. But he made a big jump in SAT score this fall so we’re feeling pretty good about that. Has a 1380 and ended up getting 4’s on his APs from junior year and is taking 4 AP classes senior year and so far has straight As. We’ll hope for the best.

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Darn. I know he needed two AP classes, or 3.5 gpa or higher, or top 10% on psat. Does he meet any of those?

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Hi, do you have any updates? Your son did so well in school. I hope my daughter has as much success. She is just starting 9th grade year next week.