March is a HUGE scholarship deadline month! The listed scholarships in this post are just a small fraction of what is available in March. If your student is pursuing higher education, I would highly recommend looking through these websites, as well as others I have mentioned in these blog posts to maximize the scholarship potential.
Scholaroo is a site that allows students to find scholarships, compare student loans, and research credit cards. There claim is to “help students jumpstart their financial future.” You can create a log in and set specific search parameters, however, I was able to search scholarships generally. General search criteria I could manipulate without an account included: deadline, minimum amount, major/subject, GPA, application requirements, demographic, grade level, women only, and location. While searching the scholarships, I found that it was terrific for state specific scholarship searches. Therefore, if you want to find scholarships specific to your state or the state your student will be attending college, this is a site worth looking at.
The following scholarships are examples of national eligibility scholarships found on Scholaroo.
18th Annual Create-A-Greeting Card Scholarship Contest
Sponsor: The Gallery Collection
Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: March 2, 2025
Description: The Gallery Collection’s, parent company, Prudent Publishing, organizes a Create-A-Greeting Card Scholarship Contest, in which students from across the U.S. take part. The participant with the most beautiful card is awarded a $10,000 grant. The Gallery Collection will hold exclusive rights to the winning entry.
At the time of participation, the applicant must be at least 14 years of age and enrolled in an academic program. Home-schooled children attached to an accredited institution are also eligible to apply.
Sponsor: American Society of Human Genetics
Amount: $100-$1000
Closing Date: March 5, 2025
Description: ASHG is proud to support National DNA Day through the Annual DNA Day Essay Contest. DNA Day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953.
This contest is open to students in grades 9-12 worldwide and asks students to examine, question, and reflect on important concepts in genetics. Essays are expected to be well-reasoned arguments that indicate a deep understanding of scientific concepts related to the essay question. They are evaluated by ASHG members through three rounds of scoring.
Fontana Transport Inc. Scholars Program
Sponsor: Fontana Transport Inc.
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: March 14, 2025
Description: The Fontana Transport Inc Scholarship Program is for minority, low-income, and first-generation college-bound graduating high school seniors to encourage them to pursue undergraduate degree programs in transportation, Spanish language or literature, engineering, mathematics, and science.
Applicants don’t have to be a U.S. citizen to apply but must have a minimum GPA of 3.5 and be eligible to attend school in the fall. Applicants must also provide proof of enrollment in a four-year undergraduate degree program.
Beyond the Boroughs Scholarship
Sponsor: Beyond the Boroughs
Amount: up to $20,000 over four years
Closing Date: March 15, 2025
Description: Beyond the Boroughs was founded by veteran Tutan Reyes in 2007. He committed to giving young men and women a brighter future through a scholarship fund that rewards students in accredited colleges who are unable to finance their studies.
The primary aim of Beyond the Boroughs is rooted in a refusal to let lingering financial difficulties hinder the leaders of tomorrow. Beyond the Boroughs thrives on the challenge to provide support, funds, and mentorship to students.
As a public charity program, Beyond the Boroughs raises money and distributes as many scholarship funds as possible each year.
Horatio Alger State Scholarships
Sponsor: The Horatio Alger Association
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: Varies
Description: Horatio Alger Association administers over 70 scholarship programs, offering opportunities for students in various stages of their academic careers to achieve their educational goals and realize their potential. View website for the various scholarships, amounts, requirements, and deadlines.
Sponsor: GoSkills
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: March 15, 2025
Description: To empower the women out there, GoSkills has been providing them with a $2,000 scholarship twice a year — during the fall and spring — to help them start their own online start-ups. The organization feels that, if given a chance, a woman can shape her ideas and build them into a flourishing business, providing employment opportunities to many.
This scholarship is not restricted to any particular profession. To date, it has funded several start-ups, including an online travel company, a hair product business, a cupcake business, a technology company, a clothing line, and an e-commerce company, to name a few.
Any female high school or undergraduate student based in the U.S. and Canada is eligible to apply for this scholarship. Candidates have to fill out an online form, answer a few questions, and share their business plans to apply for the Be the Boss Scholarship.
The following scholarships were listed on jlvcollegecounseling:
Engebretson Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Engebretson Foundation
Amount: $5,000 per semester (for one year)
Closing Date: March 1, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors in the United States who plan to attend a four-year college. Applicant must have achieved a score of at least 28 on the ACT or at least 1240 on the SAT AND have at least a 3.75 GPA and/or be in the top 5% of their graduating class. Applicant must be in need of financial assistance in order to attend a four-year college.
Goya Foods Culinary Arts Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Goya Foods
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: March 6, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming college freshman who will be majoring in Culinary Arts or Food Science. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or qualify for DACA.
AFA Leader and Academic Scholarships
Sponsor: Agriculture Future of America
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: March 6, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate students enrolled in an agriculture-related degree programs across the U.S.
PAF’s Scholarships for Survivors
Sponsor: Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF)
Amount: $3,000 annually up to four consecutive years, as long as applicant meet the guidelines of the program
Closing Date: March 7, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students undergraduate and graduate students (under the age of 25 for undergraduate students and under the age of 35 for graduate students) who have been diagnosed with or treated for cancer, a chronic, or life threatening debilitating disease within the past five years. In addition to the national undergraduate program, there is a scholarships specifically for undergraduate student from Virginia.
Annual Kaplun Essay Contest
Sponsor: Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation
Amount: Up to $1,800
Closing Date: March 12, 2025
Description: Contest is open to students in grades 7 through 12 anywhere in the world. Applicants must submit an essay on a given topic related to Judaism.
Blacks at Microsoft Scholarships
Sponsor: Blacks at Microsoft (BAM)
Amount: Up to $20,000 over four years
Closing Date: March 13, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors of African descent who plan to attend a four-year college or university in the fall. Applicant must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, computer information systems or select business programs. Applicant must demonstrate a passion for technology, demonstrate leadership, and have at least a 3.3 GPA.
Microsoft disAbility Scholarship
Sponsor: Microsoft
Amount: $5,000 per year, up to $20,000 total
Closing Date: March 13, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current high school seniors living with a disAbility who plan to attend an undergraduate program following graduating. Applicant must plan to declare a major in engineering, computer science, computer information systems, law, business, or a related field.
Women at Microsoft Scholarship
Sponsor: Microsoft
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: March 13, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to promising high school senior women and non-binary people who plan to attend a vocation or academic college and target career in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math).
Kim and Harold Louis Family Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: The Kim and Harold Louie Family Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: March 14, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and individuals entering their freshman year of college during the upcoming academic year. Applicant must have at least a 3.5 GPA and demonstrate outstanding personal achievements, academic merit, leadership qualities and/or community service. Special consideration will be noted for applicants who have parents who are U.S. veterans or currently in the U.S. military, students with financial need, first generation college students, and students with a documented significant disability.
Emmett J. Doerr Memorial Scout Scholarship
Sponsor: National Catholic Committee on Scouting
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: March 15, 2025
Description: The website has 12 different scholarships which can be applied to. Scholarship is open to outstanding Catholic high school seniors who are Scouts in a BSA program and planning to continue their education in college.
Navy League of the United States Scholarships
Sponsor: Navy League of the United States
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: March 15, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to high school seniors who will attend an accredited institution of higher education in the fall. Applicant must be a child or grandchild of a member of the sea services, to include the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and a U.S. flag Merchant Marine.
Nicholas A. Pennipede Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Eye Associates
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: March 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students accepted to a college or enrolled in an undergraduate or optometry school in the fall. Applicant must submit an essay on how they plan to use their education to serve the community.
Survivor Scholarship
Sponsor: The Quell Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: March 15, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors and current undergraduate and graduate students who have experienced the devastating loss of a parent, caregiver, or sibling to suicide. Applicant must have at least a 3.5 GPA.
Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition Student Awards
Sponsor: Aluminum Extruders Council
Amount: $3,000 – $5,000
Closing Date: March 24, 2025
Description: Students have a unique and innovative way of looking at the world, which makes them well-qualified to offer creative solutions to design challenges. Think beyond the ordinary to come up with new, innovative, and resourceful ways to use extruded aluminum! Individual and/or team entries from students around the world will be accepted through the entry due date. Students currently enrolled in high school, university, community college, trade, technical or design school are eligible to enter one or more designs.
Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition
Sponsor: Haiku Society of America
Amount: $100
Closing Date: March 30, 2025
Description: Contest is open to students in grades 7 through 12. Student can submit up to three haiku poems.
Becca’s Closet Scholarships
Sponsor: Becca’s Closet
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: March 31, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors who have made an outstanding, documented contribution to his or her local community through the creation of or involvement in a Becca’s Closet chapter or Becca’s Closet organized through a supporting organization.
Automotive Aftermarket Scholarship
Sponsor: Automotive Aftermarket
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: March 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students enrolled or planning to enroll as a full-time student in a two or four-year college or an ASE/NATEF certified post-secondary automotive, collision repair, or heavy-duty program.
Because College is Expensive Scholarship
Sponsor: Cedar Education Lending
Amount: $500
Closing Date: March 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to high school students, adults looking to head back to school, current college students, and anyone looking to attend college or graduate school within 12 months. Applicant must submit a short form.
United Methodist Scholarships
Sponsor: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry – The United Methodist Church
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: March 31, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students who are active, full members of the United Methodist Church for at least one year. Applicant must have at least a 2.5 GPA and be a U.S. Citizen, permanent resident or have DACA status.
