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December 2025 Scholarship Newsletter (1).pdfSchool-Specific Scholarships
The following four scholarships allow High Schools to nominate students for these scholarships. If you are interested in attending NC State, UNC Charlotte, UNC Chapel Hill, or Davidson College and are interested in the scholarship, please contact your school counselor.
NC STATE Park Scholarship: Learn more & Apply
A Park Scholar is someone who demonstrates attributes in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character.
This is a self-nomination scholarship!!
Requirements:
Have a minimum unweighted GPA of 3.8 and/or a minimum weighted GPA of 4.0.
Be a United States citizen, permanent resident of the U.S., or graduating from a high school located in the U.S. (regardless of citizenship status).
Apply for fall, first-year admission into a baccalaureate program at NC State.
Website: park.ncsu.edu/apply/
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Levine Scholarship Program: Learn more & Apply
The Levine Scholars Program is UNC Charlotte’s premier merit scholarship. The program invites the brightest, most capable students to UNC Charlotte and gives them the tools, resources and support they need to explore the world around them, engage deeply in their communities and excel across disciplines.
Selection Criteria:
Students must demonstrate a commitment to community service,
Student hold an academic record that reflects a sustained passion for knowledge
Students possess a capacity for ethical leadership that elevates fellow students to a higher standard.
Students are nominated by their school and will receive access to an application afterwards.
Nomination Deadline: October 15, 2025
UNC Charlotte Application Deadline: November 1st,2025
Application for Levine by Nominees Deadline: November 15, 2025
Morehead-Cain Scholarship: Learn more & Apply
The Morehead-Cain is so much more than tuition and room and board. It sets your potential free. It offers (and funds) life-changing summer enrichment and extracurricular learning experiences. It provides immersion in a dynamic student body at a world-class university.
Students who were not nominated by the school (deadline has already past for that) may still self-nominate until the deadline
Deadline: October 1st, 2025 @ 11:59pm
John M. Belk Scholarship: Learn more & Apply
The program is built around our belief that, as a Belk Scholar, you possess unique talents that should be recognized and nurtured. The Belk Scholarship will provide you comprehensive funding (tuition, fees, room and board) plus special opportunity stipends that allow you great flexibility in the on- and off-campus opportunities you choose to explore. Students need to be nominated by the High School they are attending. Please let your counselor know if you are interesting in attending Davidson College.
Deadline: November 1, 2025 for nomination and November 15th, 2025 for application
University of Virginia - Jefferson Foundation Scholarship
Jefferson Scholarships are awarded to high school seniors who demonstrate excellence and exceptional potential in the areas of leadership, scholarship, and engaged citizenship. Recipients receive the entire cost of attendance at UVA and many supplemental enrichment experiences—a value of more than $345,000.
Criteria - No one may apply for a Jefferson . Eligible schools are asked to nominate a student in the senior class who best exemplifies excellence in the areas of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship.
Successful nominees demonstrate exceptional leadership talents, an understanding of the broader community around them, and uncommon academic abilities.
Prior interest in the University of Virginia and financial need should not be factors in selecting a nominee.
Nominations are completed by both school officials and students and include a scholastic report, extracurricular activities, and two essays.
All nomination materials for Jefferson and Walentas Scholarships must be submitted by counselors and nominees according to the regional deadline. Most regions have a deadline of December 2, 2024. Schools in the International and Domestic At-Large regions have a separate deadline of November 15, 2025. Deadlines are communicated throughout the process.
The Robertson Scholars
The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program provides eight semesters of full tuition, room and board, and most mandatory fees for Scholars at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. Scholars also have access to generous funding for up to three summer experiences, funding for conferences throughout the academic year, and for two semesters of study abroad.
Application and Interview Timeline
Application and Interview Timeline
Application Opens: August 15, 2025
Early Notification Deadline: October 15, 2025
Regular Application Deadline: November 15, 2025
Group Activity: December 15, 2025-February 20, 2026
Semi-Finalist Interviews: February 7-22, 2026
Finalist Interviews: Early March 2026
Scholar Recipient Campus Visits: March 25-28, 2026
Have you received a scholarship from any of the colleges/universities you've been accepted to? If so, take a couple of minutes to complete this form: Scholarship Declaration Form.
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