$1,000 Scholarships for NYCHA Residents
With the college year now over, there’s still one more important thing NYCHA’s hard working college students should do—apply for a $1,000 scholarship for NYCHA residents.
The NYCHA-CUNY Resident Scholarship is awarded competitively to residents enrolled full-time as a sophomore, junior or senior at any City University of New York college, in an Associate or Baccalaureate degree program.
A Regina A. Figueroa Memorial Scholarship is available for residents with documented disabilities who also are full-time undergraduates at a CUNY college. Additional requirements include:
- a minimum 3.0 GPA
- financial need
- submission of a 500-word autobiographical essay.
Competition for the scholarships is keen, and the essays have been compelling. NYCHA is proud of the approximately 100 exceptional students who have received the $1,000 awards since the program’s inception in 2005.
Profiles of last year’s scholarship recipients are included in the December 2014/January 2015 NYCHA Journal, available on NYCHA’s Website. For an application, visit: http://tinyurl.com/nychascholarships. The application deadline is June 30, 2015.
