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Prospect Heights Dollars for Scholars Academic Scholarship

Prospect Heights Dollars for Scholars offers six $2,500 one-year academic scholarships and one $2,500 four-year renewable academic scholarship ($10,000 total over the four-year period), the Charles E. Priester Four-Year Renewable Scholarship.

In order to be eligible to apply for this scholarship, a student must be either a resident of the Prospect Heights, Illinois or Wheeling, Illinois and a graduating high school senior or an undergraduate student returning to college, and admitted to a two-year or four-year college or university.

Applicants must also posses a minimum grade point average of 3.9 on a 5.0 scale or 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. In order to apply, students submit the two-page application form, two letters of recommendation, high school or college transcripts, a 250-word essay and the FAFSA Report.

Evaluation criteria include financial need, academic standing, school activities/community involvement and the written essay.

Scholarship winners are expected to attend the Prospect Heights Scholarship Awards Ceremony scheduled for this summer. Past winners are encouraged to reapply.

For more information or to apply, please visit our website.

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