Looking for scholarships

Are there scholarships for young students?

Yes.

How old is the student…are you looking for college scholarships?

No one son attends Harvard. Second is in Stanford. So they are all set fortunately. Daughter just in 6th grade and we are looking for junior high school scholarship so she can start building resume.

Are there any scholarship for young girls who have done extremely well in math competitions?

If you are looking for college scholarships for a sixth grader, it’s my opinion that you are looking WAY too early. She is 5 or 6 years away from applying for college.

ETA…when your daughter applies to college, the vast majority of colleges won’t even look at things she did as a middle school/junior high school student. The colleges will be looking at what she did in high school.

“Building a resume” for what? College applications? I think you need to nurture this girl’s interests while at the same time allowing her to be a young teen.

College is a LOT of years away for her.

Her best bet is to do as her siblings have done and get excellent grades and SAT or ACT scores so she has more acceptance options in 2025 which could net her either sufficient need based aid or merit aid from the colleges to which she gets accepted.

It’s unclear to me if you are asking about scholarships for college or Jr HS/HS.

@“Erin’s Dad” We are looking for scholarships for junior high and high school only. Scholarship for college is too early for her.

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Jack Kent Cooke offers a need-based option.

https://www.jkcf.org/our-scholarships/young-scholars-program/

Caroline D. Bradley does not place limits on family income for eligibility.

https://educationaladvancement.org/caroline-d-bradley-scholarship/criteria-eligibility/

Applicants must be in the 7th grade at time of application. Each provides tuition support for HS and both are highly competitive.

There are a number of threads on College Confidential about these scholarships that should come up if you search. Good luck!

Also, don’t know if you are considering private prep high school, but some of those offer scholarships to outstanding students to attend as well. And need based aid too.

Thumper she scored > 1450 in SAT in 6th grade. She is a rising 7th grader this year.

That is great info!

Her passion is history and English. Caroline D. Bradely scholarship is amazing. Thanks for the info!

There are also scholarships via various organizations. If she’s good at math you could google some of the various organizations. Many scholarships are college level only but some are for high schoolers.

@casinoofny CDB as mentioned above might be a good fit for her since she is going into 7th. Some schools also offer their own scholarships.

Thank you @Calliemomofgirls!

https://www.nycom.org/resources/youth-in-government/2-uncategorised/1100-8th-grade-essay-contest

Heres some history/essay hybrid contests specifically for middle schoolers:

https://constitutingamerica.org/contest-categories/#toggle-id-2
and
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/school-programs/essay-contest/middle-school

Only the second one has a cash prize (the first has a gift card to retail store) but both would look good on applications.

https://bowseat.org/programs/ocean-awareness-contest/overview/ has a writing (prose and poetry) section for middle schoolers.

MATHCOUNTS, AMC8/10/12, and Math Kangaroo are all great math contests but only mathcounts offer immediate money prize. Math kangaroo kids who do well consistently have lots of scholarship opportunities and a chance to a trip to Poland. AMC10/12 is the way to go to build on math and AMC8 is a great stepping stone for that. Those two contests are the stepping blocks into the IMO (international math Olympiad) and, for girls, allows for them to go to math prize for girls, hosted at MIT.

Engineer Girl is a writing contest with a stem portion if she would like something like that. I’d consider it more like a creative writing contest for the younger age brackets though.

For the future:

■■■■■■■■■ has monthly scholarship essay contests but that’s for college. Still its good to look at things she might be interested in looking forwards to.

New York Times have a weekly summer essay contest thing going on which offers kids the opportunity to have something published in the times (though no other money prize)

scholastic.com allows kids to submit (7th grade and up) to submit work and potentially has scholarship opportunities you might want to look at. (costs $7 to submit)