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Jose Marti Scholarship Challenge Grant


Scholarship Value: $8,000
Awards Available: 10

The Jose Martí Scholarship Challenge Grant Fund is a need-based merit scholarship that provides financial assistance to eligible students of Hispanic origin who will attend Florida public or eligible private institutions.

The student will:

A) Submit a completed, error-free Florida Financial Aid Application (FFAA) by April 1, 2020 (available October 1, 2019). Applicants will be ranked by their application submission date, if necessary.

B) Be of Spanish culture, born in or having a natural parent who was born in either Mexico or a Hispanic country of the Caribbean, Central or South America, regardless of race. Students of the following countries are not considered for an evaluation of this scholarship: Brazil, Spain and Haiti.

C) Have earned, by the end of the seventh semester, a minimum unweighted cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale based on subjects credible toward a high school diploma for an undergraduate scholarship, or a 3.0 institutional cumulative GPA for undergraduate college work if applying for a graduate level scholarship.

1) A prospective undergraduate student must apply during senior year of high school and ensure that either the high school principal or designee certifies online the student's 7th semester unweighted cumulative GPA to the Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) by a date established by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE).

2) A prospective graduate student must ensure that an admissions office official at the postsecondary institution the applicant plans to attend certifies the student's institutional cumulative GPA online to OSFA by a date established by FDOE.

D) Demonstrate a minimum of $2,000 in financial need by timely completing and submitting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in time to be processed error-free by the U.S. Department of Education on or before May 15, 2020.


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