Scholarship Application
2023-2024

• Applicants must be a high school senior enrolling in a two-year college or four-year college or university or vocational/trade school in the fall of 2024.

• Applicants must have an overall/cumulative grade point average of no less than 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.

• Applicants must participate in community service, campus leadership and/or extracurricular activities.

 

Your application packet must include:

• A completed scholarship application.

• An official copy of your high school transcript.

• An acceptance letter from an accredited 2-year college or 4-year college or university or vocational/trade school.

• One recommendation letter from a current or former high school teacher, counselor, or an administrator.

• One recommendation letter from a community member (coach, church member, supervisor, mentor, community leader, etc.)

• A minimum 500-word essay typed and double-spaced, 12” Font, Times New Roman. Please select only ONE of the three choices below to write your essay:

  • Pick an experience from your own life and explain how it has influenced your development.

  • Describe how you have demonstrated leadership in your school, work and/or community.

  • If you had the authority to change your community in a positive way, what specific changes would you make? Why?

 

Next Steps:

• Upsilon Psi Zeta Graduate chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated will host an in-person scholarship celebration. All recipients will be acknowledged at the ceremony. Additional details will be provided later.

• Scholarship awards are to be used for educational purposes only. Scholarship awards will be disbursed to the college, university or trade/vocational school once verification is provided of the awardee’s enrollment. Please email: name of the institution, school identification number, contact person/ department and mailing address for scholarship check disbursement by July 1, 2024