Please follow these two easy steps to ensure you have accurately applied for the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship:
In 2007, Idaho Legislators voted overwhelmingly to fund "The Opportunity Scholarship."
The demand for a well qualified, well educated workforce was just one of the driving forces behind the creation of Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter’s "Opportunity Scholarship." This scholarship is designed to be a last dollars mechanism; meaning that a student must apply for federal financial aid and have a self or family contribution element before they would be eligible for the Opportunity Scholarship.
In 2007, The Idaho Legislature approved a $10 million dollar appropriation to start the Opportunity Scholarship fund. Governor Otter’s goal is to grow that corpus to approximately $100 million dollars, giving Idaho students and their families access to approximately $10 million dollars a year in actual scholarship monies, funded entirely by interest earnings, thus eliminating any burden to the Idaho taxpaying public.
To qualify applicants must:
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