Outside Scholarships

If you’ve completed your FAFSA and are looking for additional funding to attend Hope College, here are a few good places to search for scholarships: 

• Your local community foundation (search your state)
  
• CollegeBoard
• Fastweb scholarship searches for high school seniors and college freshmen
  
• Niche scholarship search
  
• Cappex scholarship search
• Unusual scholarships

It’s also a good idea to talk with your guidance counselor, teachers, pastor, friends and family about scholarship opportunities. You never know who may be aware of a scholarship you’ve not heard about.

If you've been awarded an Outside Scholarship, here are some next steps for notifying Hope and ensuring that the award is properly credited to your student account.

NEXT STEPS AFTER RECEIVING AN OUTSIDE SCHOLARSHIP

Did you receive an outside scholarship or source of aid beyond what’s in your Hope financial aid award? Please share that information with our Office of Financial Aid as soon as possible. 

The best way to do that is to email finaid@hope.edu. You’ll want to include the organization making the award and the amount, plus your date of birth and Hope ID number.

We use many funding sources to make Hope accessible, including:

• grants & scholarships from Hope
• state & federal programs
• outside scholarships

Sometimes receiving one scholarship can change your eligibility for other aid. We will do all we can to maximize your aid, but adding new aid sources can change other elements of your aid package.

When you receive an outside award, the organization will often send the check to Hope. Please have them direct the check to the Business Services Office:

Anderson-Werkman Center
100 East 8th Street
Suite 280
Holland, MI 49423

As always, we’re here to help! Please contact us with your questions about outside scholarships.