Incoming high school seniors are encouraged to visit http://www.horatioalger.org and apply for a Horatio Alger Scholarship. These scholarships recognize adversity and need above all other criteria. Applying for the scholarship requires no cost or future obligation.

The Horatio Alger Pennsylvania Scholarship is an honor that will provide inspiration to young people to continue to aspire for their goals and tangible assistance in the form of a significant financial contribution toward college tuition and fees. Many colleges and universities match the Horatio Alger Scholarship with grants to further help reduce the cost of college education. The scholarship puts recipients in the company of other young people like themselves that refuse to allow circumstances to limit their aspirations.

Applications can be completed on-line at http://www.horatioalger.org/scholarships. The applications require the completion of biographical, academic and financial information. Each applicant is asked to describe the adversities that they have faced or are facing. Past scholarship recipients have detailed their experiences living in poverty, in foster care, being homeless, being physically abused and having parents who abused alcohol or drugs. Eligible students must be U.S. citizens as well as be residents of and attend a high school in Pennsylvania.

The association will award one hundred scholarships of $2,500 and 25 scholarships of $10,000 to high school seniors from throughout the state of Pennsylvania. The students awarded a Horatio Alger Pennsylvania scholarship may utilize it to attend any college or university in the United States of America.

For information, visit www.horatioalger.org/scholarship.

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