Applying for Scholarships

Scholarship Websites

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Santa Fe College Scholarships

This page includes applications for:

• Santa Fe College Foundation Scholarships
• Santa Fe College General Scholarship Application
• Cardiac COVID-19 Emergency Aid Grant for Athletes
• Rapid Credentialing Grant Application

Other Santa Fe specific scholarships

SF International Education Scholarships

• For SF students who wish to do one of our Study Abroad programs in another country.
• These scholarships are intended to help students afford the costs of the trip.
• The student must apply to the Study Abroad program before accessing the scholarship application.

SF Fine Arts Scholarships  - For students majoring in Dance, Music, Theater, or the Visual Arts

SF Career and Technical Education Scholarships

For students in:

• Associate in Science Degree programs
• Associate in Applied Science programs
• Certificate programs
• Bachelor's Degree programs

(To see the occupations for which these programs train, check out Career Coach)

SF Bachelor's Degree Scholarship - Specifically for students completing a Bachelor's degree program at Santa Fe College

Our Financial Aid Handbook lists a number of scholarships available to Santa Fe students.  These are automatically applied-for when you submit the Santa Fe College application and FAFSA.  Further descriptions of these scholarships are available in the College Rules Manual, sections 7.14 and 7.14P.

The Santa Fe College Financial Aid Office maintains a "Ways to Pay" page which contains a few scholarship links not listed elsewhere.  

Student Life maintains a list of private scholarship opportunities that are sent to us by various businesses and other organizations.

Santa Fe College Tuition Waivers and Exemptions - A small number of students do not have to pay tuition.  Check the list to see if you are one of them.

End of list for Santa Fe specific scholarships

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Scholarship Search Engines

College Board Scholarship Search

• It's a good way to "get your feet wet" with scholarship searching.
• You answer the questions, and the program will show a list of scholarship leads for which you might qualify.

Peterson's Scholarship Search

• The Santa Fe College Library licensed Peterson's Test Prep which included a search engine for the Peterson's scholarship collection. It is open to students through Library Database.

  Follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Santa Fe College Library Databases
  2. Select:  Peterson's Test Prep
  3. Check in with your Office365 credentials
     1. User name format:  12345678@sfcollege.edu
     2. Password:  same as you use for eSantaFe
        You will be directed to the Peterson's Test Prep home page
  4. If you are not yet registered with Peterson's Test Prep
     1. Scroll down to find the Register button and select it
     2. Complete all blanks on the form to create your account
  5. If you have already registered with this service
     1. Scroll down to find the Login button
     2. Enter your user name and password.
     3. Be sure to save your user name and password
  6. Select: Find a School
  7. Scroll down and select:  College and Scholarship Search
  8. Scroll down and select: Undergraduate Scholarship Search
     You may now start searching the Peterson's database of over 800 scholarships.
     
     If you are not a Santa Fe Student, here is another way to use the Peterson's database.

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Scholarships for International Students

• International Education Financial Aid - A search engine to assist international students to find scholarships and grants for U.S. Study.

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State of Florida Scholarships

• Bright Futures Scholarship
  
• Other State of Florida Scholarships
  Financial Aid TV at Santa Fe College offers videos describing many of the State scholarship programs.

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Transferring to a State University in Florida?

Most Financial Aid Offices at Florida Universities include lists of scholarships available at their school.

Here are links to their Financial Aid Offices/Scholarship pages:

• Florida A & M University, Tallahassee
• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
• Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers
• Florida International University, Miami
• Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland
• Florida State University, Tallahassee
• New College of Florida, Sarasota
• University of Central Florida, Orlando
• University of Florida, Gainesville Scholarship Search at UF
• University of North Florida, Jacksonville
• University of South Florida, Tampa
• University of West Florida, Pensacola

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Going to a private or out-of-state school?

Find your school's website, navigate to their Financial Aid pages, and look for a listing of their scholarships. 
If you have difficulty finding a school's website, try College Navigator. This program can also be useful in searching for colleges that offer your major in your desired location.

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A few other legitimate scholarship resources

• Fastweb Scholarship Search is e-mail based. It will send lots of scholarship notices to your e-mail, possibly too much. So we suggest creating a separate e-mail account through Gmail, Yahoo! or the like, and give Fastweb that address. This way it does not fill up your personal in-box with piles of scholarship leads.
• U.S. News Scholarship America blog
• Free-4U Scholarship News
• FinAid - the Smart Student's Guide to Financial Aid
• Plato Scholarship Search (requires free registration)
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• National Merit Scholarships
• Association for Non-Traditional Students in Higher Education
• CollegeDegree.com - links to many financial aid websites.
• CollegeScholarships.com
• Guaranteed Scholarships (Hint: watch out for the "G" word! It's often a sign of a scam. In this instance it's OK, but NONE of the scholarships listed are for specifically for Santa Fe or UF.)

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Professional Associations

Every profession has at least one association.  They support their profession in many ways, one of which is to offer scholarships for students entering their field.  Here is the technique:

1. Run a web browser
2. Do a search for:  "professional association abcdefg"  where "abcdefg" is replaced by the profession
   e.g. "professional association accounting" or "professional association physical therapy"
3. Pay the most attention to .org and .edu sites.  The .org sites are mostly for non-profit organizations, the .edu sites are colleges and universities who maintain collections of legitimate sites relevant to their programs of study.  Be careful about .com sites. Some are good, but they have a profit motive and so may be biased.
4. Upon finding an association you like, check for a search box and enter "scholarships"  Sometimes the scholarships will be listed under "Education" or "Careers"

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One more scholarship search engine

MyCareerShines.org 

This is the State of Florida's official career guidance program, which contains a scholarship search program.  This program uses the same database as College Board, so may be redundant if the College Board search worked well for you.  

To use MyCareerShines, you must create an account.  Here are the steps:

1. MyCareerShines Website.
2. Scroll down to MyCareerShines and select Register or Log In.
3. Be sure to specify Santa Fe College as your school.
4. Home page... in menu to right select "[ ] Find Financial Aid"
5. Then: "Find and Apply for Scholarships and Grants"
6. Then: "Search a National Database of Scholarships and Grants."
7. Enable Filter Options, and fill in all the blanks that are relevant to you.
8. Read each scholarship description. If you qualify and would want it, visit the website and read whatever else they provide.
9. If you STILL want it and believe you qualify, call or write and request an "Application Package"

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For personal assistance in your scholarship search, please Contact the Career Exploration Center to make an appointment.

rev. 2/9/20, JY