Scholarships
Affording Your Alverno Education
Alverno offers a variety of merit-based and need-based scholarships to help support your education, along with grants, student loans and student employment.
We are happy to help you search for and identify scholarship opportunities from organizations outside of Alverno as well as to assist you with your scholarship applications.
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Alverno College Academic Scholarships
|
High School
GPA (unweighted) |
3.75-4.0 | 3.50-3.74 | 2.90-3.49 | 2.3-2.89 |
|
Scholarship
Amount |
$23,000
Vanguard |
$22,000
Deans' |
$20,000
Alexia |
$18,000
Founders' |
Competitive Scholarships
In addition to merit-based scholarships, Alverno offers first-year undergraduate students additional opportunities to receive scholarships:
Roosevelt: This scholarship recognizes a student coming direct from high school who has demonstrated excellence in leadership and volunteerism through school activities, work responsibilities and community involvement. The Roosevelt Scholar will receive a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to Alverno. Click here to apply.
Special Education Teacher Scholarships
Alverno’s Developing Diversity in Exceptional Educator Preparation (DDEEP) program provides 24 scholarships per academic year to racially, ethnically, linguistically and ability diverse students who wish to serve as a special education teacher. Students must meet eligibility requirements and commit to serve as a special education teacher for at least two years for every year the scholarship is received. Apply here
Scholarships for All Students
The Alverno College Financial Aid Office has various outside scholarships that students can apply for throughout the year.
A current listing of these scholarships can be viewed here:
Scholarship America Dream Award (December 6)
Live Mas Scholarship (January 8)
Chia Family Foundation Scholarship (opens January 17)
Frontline Families Scholarship (February 14)
Lock Heed Martin STEM Scholarship (April 1)
As a Hispanic-Serving Institution, all Alverno students – regardless of race or ethnicity – are eligible for additional scholarships. View a current listing of these opportunities from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Scholarship Resources:
- Native America Scholarships Resource
- African American Scholarships Resource
- Hispanic Scholarship Resource
Scholarship Search Sites:
Looking for scholarships that only fit your situation? Try these popular scholarship search engines:
2024-25 Transfer Scholarships
At Alverno, we understand the value that transfer students bring to our community. In addition to our streamlined admissions process, we offer a network of support to help our transfer students accomplish their goals. We also offer merit-based scholarships:
|
GPA |
Scholarship Amount |
|
3.0-4.0 |
Dean's $20,000 |
|
2.3-2.99 |
Founders' $16,000 |
PHI THETA KAPPA SCHOLARSHIP: This renewable $1,500 transfer scholarship is open to weekday undergraduate students who are members of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. Eligible students receive $750 per semester.
2024-25 2+2 Scholarships
|
GPA |
Scholarship |
Amount |
|
3.0-4.0 |
Dean's |
$20,000 |
|
2.5-2.99 |
Founders' |
$16,000 |
Scholarship assistance
For general assistance, please contact the Alverno Financial Aid office at 414-382-6262 or financial.aid@alverno.edu.
For assistance with scholarship essay writing, please contact the Alverno Communication Resource Center at 414-382-6016 or instructionalservices@alverno.edu.
The Alverno Career Studio offers assistance with writing and updating resumes. Contact them at 414-382-6010 or find more information here.
For scholarships that require academic transcripts, visit Requesting Transcripts.
Looking for scholarships for your specific situation? Try these directories and search engines:
- cappex.com/scholarships
- fastweb.com
- petersons.com
- scholarships.com
- uncf.org
- collegescholarships.org
- scholarshipsamerica.org
- Native American Scholarships Resource
- African American Scholarships Resource
- Hispanic Scholarship Resource
- Complete Guide to College Affordability for Hispanic Students
- DREAMER's RoadMap - Download App for Scholarship Resources.
To know what option will work best, we recommend you contact the scholarship organization for their best recommendation with providing a GPA when Alverno does not offer letter grades.
- OPTION 1: Student provides an official or unofficial transcript (referred to “course history”) to scholarship organization in place of GPA. Official transcripts are available for a fee through the Registrar’s Office. The official transcript includes a lead page that explains Alverno’s grading policy, then includes course history and validations. The course history is available free of charge through IOL.
- OPTION 2: Student writes “N/A” or “0.0” in the field that requests GPA.
If one of the options above is not allowable, the student should contact the Registrar's Office to submit a release and obtain a GPA conversion. GPA conversions are free. They usually take about 2 weeks, or longer during breaks.
The individuals who you ask to write you a recommendation letter for an internal or institutional scholarship (including faculty/staff) have the option to provide a traditional letter of recommendation or use the Internal Scholarship Recommendation Form.
NOTE: This form is only accepted for internal scholarships.
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