Outside Scholarship Opportunities

The financial aid office has received information on the following outside scholarships. Below are requirements, if any, for each scholarship as well as details on how to apply. If you have questions about any of the items listed, please contact us and we will try to answer them. Please note any posted deadlines! (Listings are in deadline order.)

The following scholarships are for the 2009-10 academic year.

James P. Lazzati Memorial Scholarship – A Mount St. Mary’s student will receive this $2,000 scholarship awarded by the Associated Italian American Charities of Maryland (AIAC).  The scholarship is intended to aid a U.S. citizen with Italian heritage preferred who also demonstrates financial need.  The recipient must be a full-time degree candidate with a minimum 2.6 grade point average.  Applications, which include an essay stating “What my Italian Heritage means to me” must be turned in to the Financial Aid Office no later than November 4.  Click here to download the application or email reeder@msmary.edu.

Nancy Talbot Scholarship Award - The Talbots Scholarship Foundation will award $180,000 in college scholarships for the 2010 academic year, including up to 10 $15,000 scholarships and one $30,000 scholarship to an extraordinary finalist demonstrating courage, conviction and an insatiable entrepreneurial spirit.  Applicants to the 2010 Talbots Scholarship Foundation must:

• Be women currently residing in the United States or Canada;
• Be women who have earned a high school diploma or their GED on or before September 2000;
• Be enrolled or planning to enroll in a full- or part-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited 2- or 4- year college, university, or vocational-technical school;
• Be attending the full 2010-11 academic year and receiving a degree no earlier than May 2011; and
• Have at least two semesters (24 credit hours or more) remaining to complete an undergraduate degree as of the beginning of the 2010 fall academic term.

Applications are available online at https://www.scholarshipamerica.org/talbotswomen. The deadline for applications is Saturday, January 2, 2010. Only the first 5,000 eligible applications received will be processed.