PUSD Scholarship Guide 🗺️💰

The Pomona Unified Scholarship webpage has links to scholarship databases and other opportunities for scholarships. 🖥️

What are Scholarships? 🧐

Myths v Facts

This video goes over some common misconceptions students have in regards to scholarships. Follow along to see the facts & feel more confident in your ability to find, apply to, and earn scholarship money.

Ready to Apply? 📝

Here are some reasons to apply & also tips on how to be successful.

The most important thing to remember is to be safe & to apply to as many as possible.

ScholarshipStudentGuide.pdf

Where to start?

This scholarship guide helps you distinguish some common myths about scholarships with the facts. Use this basic overview guide to:

learn factual information regarding scholarships
begin to get organized to make applying less overwhelming
read tips for success when applying
list identifying and "searchable" traits or characteristics about you
list and keep organized all of your, your parent/ guardian, and school information commonly asked for on scholarship applications
organize scholarship opportunities (this graphic organizer is also posted below on this webpage)

Scholarship Profiles 🔍

Do any of these profiles describe YOU? If so, scan the QR code with your phone and check out the opportunity.

Check back throughout the school year to see if you fit the criteria for one! We try to keep them as diverse and interesting as our students are.

These scholarships are in no way affiliated or endorsed by Pomona Unified, this is just meant as a fun & easy way to connect to scholarships.

Applying to Scholarships? 📝

Open & print out this PDF to keep in your binder. This is a graphic organizer meant to help you stay organized and on time when applying to several scholarships. One sheet front & back has space for 12 different scholarships!

Sections include:

Scholarship name
Website name
Award amount
Deadline
A fill-in-the-blank document checklist
Notes for you
A "FINISHED" checkbox to keep track of completion

Scholarships! (8).pdf

Prefer a DIGITAL Graphic Organizer? Make a copy of this

Google Sheet

to stay organized with your applications.

Do you need help with scholarships? 🤔

Fill out this Google Form to have someone reach out to you with assistance. We want you to be as successful as possible when it comes to scholarship applications.

Parents & guardians are able to fill this form out but the response will be sent to your student's email address.

You must leave your or your student's Pomona Unified @apps email to respond. Requests that do not contain an @apps email will not be responded to in order to protect privacy of students & employees.

Make sure you check your (or your student's) email to get a response!