TheDream.US National Scholarship Fund

October 27, 2015

TheDream.US, National Scholarship Fund, is offered to high school seniors, first time college students as well as recent community college graduates who are DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) or TPS (Temporary Protected Status) eligible and have applied for or received DACA or TPS approval.

The scholarship has a deadline of Feb. 15. The funds help cover tuition and fees for an associate’s or bachelor’s degree at one of their partner colleges. Each student applying for the scholarship must demonstrate financial need and meet TheDream.US’s requirements.

A list of the scholarship’s partner colleges as well as the criteria for eligibility is given on their website.

Bianka Orjuela

Bianka Orjuela, 20, is a mass communications/journalism major at Kendall Campus. Orjuela, a 2014 graduate of South Dade Senior High School, will serve as a staff writer for The Reporter during the 2015-2016 school year. She aspires to become an investigative journalist and to write a book chronicling her father’s life.