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Hispanic College Scholarships
The Hispanic population in the United States has gradually risen over the last few years. In 2006, the number of minority residents in the US was at 100.7 million; Hispanics numbered 44.3 million, which is 14.8% of the country's population. Since 2001, Hispanics have outnumbered African Americans, the other group that comprises the largest minority population in the country. With the number of Hispanic Americans on the rise, it is not a wonder why many institutions have started giving more and more scholarship money to Hispanic students.
Upon immigrating into the United States, Hispanics generally take some of the lowest paying jobs available in order to support their families. While they put a tremendous amount of effort into acclimating themselves to American culture, they often suffer from financial difficulties that leave them unable to finish school and continue on to college. This often leaves them and their families in the ruts of poverty for generations.
In recent years, organizations like the Stanford Society of Chicano/Latino Engineers and Scientists, and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, have provided scholarship monies to Hispanic students to help them integrate into job markets that are traditionally populated with white males. Through professional societies and promotional institutions, Hispanic students now have many more opportunities to attend secondary schools like colleges and trade schools.
Not only will these scholarship monies help get Hispanic males into the American workforce, they will also help get Hispanic women into colleges and universities. This is an even more important aspect of these scholarships since Hispanic women often are expected to forgo their education for a life of domestic duties.
List of Hispanic Scholarships
- Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students — $500 to $3000 awarded each year to up to 20-40 Hispanic and other minority undergraduate and graduate students majoring in actuarial science or math.
- Earl G. Graves NAACP Scholarship — $5000 awarded each year to varied number of Hispanic and other minority undergraduate and graduate students majoring in business.
- First In My Family Scholarship Program — $500 to $5000 awarded each year to 100-200 Hispanic undergraduate students.
- High School Scholarship Program — $1000 to $2500 awarded each year to varied number of freshmen undergraduate students.
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Scholarship Programs — $500 to $3000 awarded each year to up to 200 Hispanic undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in HACU college.
- Hispanic College Fund Scholarship Program — $1000 to $5000 awarded each year to 600-750 Hispanic undergraduate students.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund — $1000 to $3000 awarded each year to 2900-3500 Hispanic undergraduate and graduate students.
- HSF/General Motors Scholarship — Up to $2500 awarded each year to 83 Hispanic undergraduate students majoring in Engineering.
- Lockheed Martin Scholarship Program — $500 to $5000 awarded each year varied number of Hispanic undergraduate students majoring in engineering and related fields.
- New Horizons Scholars Program — $2500 awarded each year to up to 50 Hispanic (or African American) freshmen undergraduate students infected with Hepatitis C or dependent of someone infected.
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