The National CCAA First-Year Scholarship
The National CCAA First-Year Scholarship is offered annually to college-bound high school seniors attending one of the National CCAA member institutions in the fall.
To be eligible for the National CCAA First-Year Scholarship:
- Applicants must graduate in the spring (e.g., spring 2025 high school graduation for fall 2025 awards).
- Recipients must be accepted to one or more National CCAA member institutions.
- Recipients must enroll in a National CCAA member institution beginning in the fall.
Award recipients will be selected by random drawing. Students will be chosen from each of these regions:
Mid-Atlantic I: NJ, NY
Mid-Atlantic II: DC, DE, MD, PA
Midwest I: IA, KS, MN, ND, NE, SD, WI
Midwest II: IL, IN, KY, MI, MO, OH, WV
New England: CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT
South: AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN, TX, VA, VI
West: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OK, OR, UT, WA, WY
International: Non-U.S.
Meet the 2024 National CCAA First-Year Scholarship Recipients
Meet past winners: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
*High school information will be verified for students receiving the scholarship awards. Award recipients give the National CCAA permission to use the recipient’s name and image for all public relations associated with the scholarship award.
Application
The application for the 2025 National CCAA First-Year Scholarship is available here. The deadline to submit the application for the 2025 National CCAA First-Year Scholarship is Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 11:59 pm PST.
The application takes only a few minutes to complete. Only high school seniors graduating in spring 2025 and entering college in fall 2025 are eligible to apply. For fall 2025, the National CCAA will award 16 one-time $1,000 awards.
Applicants will ONLY be contacted if they have been randomly selected as award winners (via email first, then phone/text if provided). The award process begins in April and runs until winners in each of the eight regions have been confirmed as enrolling at a National CCAA member institution in fall 2025 (the process may continue through the summer, if needed).
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