EXCITING NEWS! The 2026 versions of the How to Win College Scholarships ebooks are now available!
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College Scholarships for Sophomores in High School
Scholarships for sophomores may be harder to find, but they are out there.
Did you know that scholarships are not just for high school seniors or college students?
Many parents and students assume that the only scholarships available are for older students, but that simply is not true.
Are you a high school sophomore or the parent of one? If so, this post is just for you!
I cannot stress this enough: It is not IF students apply, but HOW they apply for scholarships that separates the winners from the losers.
Students need to learn how to apply SMART.
Here are scholarships for high school sophomores, some of which are open to any high school student.
If a scholarship deadline has already passed for the current year, save the award to your list for the next year and keep checking back for updated deadlines. Add the scholarship to the Scholarship Toolkit Organizer found here.
Parents, be sure to join my private Facebook group for parents only: Scholarship Help and College Talk for Parents found HERE.
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SOPHOMORES IN HIGH SCHOOL
Don’t Text and Drive College Scholarship
Hearthstone Housing Foundation Scholarship
International Young Eco-Hero Awards
Armed Services YMCA Art & Essay Contest
National Sojourners Essay Contest
Cool Imagination Writing Contest
Population Education Video Scholarship
There are many steps high school sophomores can take now to become stronger scholarship applicants. I call this Scholarship Prep.
Watch this short video now to learn more:
Live Deliberately Essay Contest
Innovation in Education Scholarship
NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Youth Essay Contest
Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award
Open to High School Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors! APPLY NOW HERE
Cancer Pathways Teen Writing Contest
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award
Districts Make the Difference Scholarship
Tian Hong Cross-Cultural Youth Poem & Art Contest
What are parents saying about the How to Win College Scholarships ebooks? THIS! ⬇️
“The ebooks are absolutely worth the modest price and so easy to use the searchable PDF format. The #1 reason, in my opinion, ‘you don’t know what you don’t know.’ That applied to me and my kids too – when starting the process with my oldest daughter. I started learning early about what was needed so I could help my daughter. She is now 25, a college grad and finished with $0 in student loan debt! I have two sons currently in college and one HS sophomore. No student or parent loans needed yet! Most helpful to us have been these sections in the book: partnering with your student/ teamwork, getting great letters of recommendation, the scholarship resume, and how to write exceptional essays -along with tons of other practical tips based on Monica’s experience and interviews with scholarship judges.” – B.G., Scholarship Help and College Talk for Parents private Facebook group member (Not a member? Join here!)
Leaders Save Lives Scholarship Program
Gen and Kelly Tanabe College Scholarship
Easy College Money Scholarship
Delete Cyberbullying Scholarship
EngineerTeen Writing and Design Contest
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest
The Unwiring ReDesign Challenge
Rubincam Youth Writing Competition
Now that you have scholarships for sophomores to apply for, you need copies of the How to Win College Scholarships ebooks for parents and their students!
The methods in my ebooks for finding and applying for college scholarships helped my son win enough money to attend college ABSOLUTELY FREE.
NO loans, NO work-study, NO begging the relatives.
Read the testimonials of others HERE and then order your scholarship guide ebooks HERE.
Find your perfect college match HERE.
Monica Matthews is the author of How to Win College Scholarships. She helped her own son win over $100,000 in college scholarships and now shares her expertise with other parents and their students. She truly has “been there, done that” in regard to helping parents and students navigate the scholarship process.
Her method of helping students in finding college scholarships, writing unique and compelling scholarship essays, creating amazing scholarship application packets, and more have taught desperate parents to help their own students win thousands of scholarship dollars. She teaches them how to apply S.M.A.R.T. with outstanding results.
Monica’s scholarship tips have been featured on many prominent websites, and she has been dubbed the “Go-To” expert on college scholarships.
Looking for scholarships for high school junior with type 1 diabetes
Have you seen this one, Michele? https://www.thelmsf.org/scholarship
There is a recent post in my Scholarship Help and Collegle Talk for Parents private Facebook group (found here) where a member asked the same question and several resources were shared. If you are a parent, please join the group and do a search for “diabetes” to read the replies. I hope that helps! 🙂