South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship

The South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship is a $5,000 scholarship awarded over four years to high school graduates from South Dakota who complete a challenging high school curriculum and maintain certain academic standards.

To be eligible for this award, applicant must:
- Be a resident of South Dakota at time of high school graduation
- Have an ACT composite score of 24 or higher; if using an SAT score, the sum of the verbal and mathematics
scores on the SAT must be at least 1070
- Complete high school course requirements commonly known as the Regents Scholar curriculum with
no final grade below a C (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) and a cumulative high school GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (grade of B)

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