OUTSIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
This listing is intended to provide you with ideas on where to look for scholarships and alternative financial aid resources if you are from another part of the country but attending Loyola University Chicago. Contact information and some details about the scholarships are generally provided. Each listing has its own criteria so deadline dates, selection conditions, application processes, and other details will need to be verified for each scholarship/resource by the student individually. Please contact each individual source for complete, up-to-date details.
Please note: This list contains scholarships for which current students and/or incoming students are eligible. Please read carefully to determine if you qualify.
The Darleen J. and Robert L. Walker Scholarship Fund
Description: The Walker Scholarship Fund is established to provide assistance to law
students in Illinois, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.
Scholarships are open to all, but preference is given to sons and daughters of members of Masonic Lodge 1098 in Lombard, Illinois, and to former residents of the Masonic Children's Home in La Grange, Illinois, who come from Masonic families. Relatives of members of other Masonic Lodges in
Illinois and elsewhere will also receive strong consideration.
Students are responsible for completing the on-line application at www.walkerscholarship.org. Student Aid Report or FAFSA documentation is also required.
Deadline: June 30
Scholarship: Albert Pick Jr Fund Law Student Scholarship Program
Description: The Albert Pick Jr. Fund Law Student Scholarship program was established to a assist a full-time first-year law student who is a long-term resident of Chicago. One $5,000 scholarship is awarded each year and is not renewable or transferable.
Scholarship Brochure Scholarship Application
Deadline: June 1
Scholarship: Chicago Bar Foundation Abraham Lincoln Marowitz Public Interest Scholarship
Description: The Chicago Bar Foundation's (CBF) Marovitz Scholarship is intended to support a needy law student who is deeply committed to public interest work so that upon graduation financial need will not prevent the student from pursuing a legal aid or public interest legal career. The Scholarship provides funds for needy public interest-minded students so they may complete law school with as little debt as possible.
The CBF awards the scholarship annually to one incoming law student attending one of the nine Illinois law schools (Chicago-Kent, DePaul, John Marshall, Loyola, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern, Southern Illinois, University of Chicago and University of Illinois). These funds, payable over a three-year period, will enable an incoming student who intends to pursue a career in public interest law to have a significant portion of his or her tuition and related expenses covered by scholarship funding. Contingent on the recipient's continued compliance with the terms of the Scholarship, the student will receive a total of $40,000 in scholarship funds disbursed as follows: $10,000 in the first year of law school, $15,000 in the second year, and $15,000 in the third year. (The payment schedule may be modified for part-time students).
I attach the guidelines, which are also available at http://www.chicagobarfoundation.org.
Deadline: May 15
Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.
Scholarship: AP&S Diversity Scholarship
Description: One $10,000 scholarship will be awarded annually in June to a minority student entering his or her first year of law school in the fall who plans to reside and practice in Rhode Island.
Contact: www.apslaw.com
Deadline: June 1
American Association for Justice
Scholarship: Richard D. Hailey Scholarship
Description: Six scholarships open to all first and second year African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and Bi-Racial AAJ Law Student members.
Contact: http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/1739.htm
Deadline: February
American Bar Association Policy & Governance Group
Scholarship: ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund
Description: The fund is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to the scholarship recipients.
Contact: www.abanet.org/fje
Deadline: March
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholars Program*
Scholarship: Graduate Scholarship Program
Description: Scholars receive up to $50,000 per year to pursue a graduate or professional degree. To be eligible, you must be a college senior, enroll full-time in a graduate program, and have a B average. Students must be officially nominated by their undergraduate Office of Financial Aid.
Contact: www.jackkentcookefoundation.org
Deadline: March
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
Scholarship: McAndrews Diversity in Patent Law Fellowship - see attachment
Description: $5000 fellowship and a paid summer clerkship to a qualified first-year law student who has a diverse background, possesses a degree in science or engineering, and is committed to pursuing a career in patent law in Chicago.
Contact: www.mcandrews-ip.com/DiversityFellowship
Deadline: Applications accepted from Dec to Jan
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Scholarship: Lehman Education Fund
Description: Provides financial assistance to African-American students who are pursuing undergraduate or law degrees
Contact:www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=32
United Negro College Fund
Scholarship: Minority Corporate Counsel Association Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program
Description: Designed to provide funds for all college seniors planning to attend law school on a full time basis in a three year law program beginning in the following academic year.
Contact: www.uncf.org
Deadline: June
STATE SPECIFIC SCHOLARSHIPS
Delaware Illinois Michigan Rhode Island
DELAWARE
H. Fletcher Brown Scholarship
Scholarship: H. Fletcher Brown Scholarship
Description: This program is open to Delaware residents who were born in Delaware, are either high school seniors entering the first year of college or college seniors entering their first year of graduate school.
Contact: 302/429-1186
ILLINOIS
Albert Pick Jr Fund Law Student Scholarship Program
Description: The Albert Pick Jr. Fun Law Student Scholarship program was established to a assist a full-time first-year law student who is a long -term resident of Chicago.One scholarship is awarded each year and is not renewable or transferable.
Application, full description and criteria
Deadline: June 1
The Darleen J. and Robert L. Walker Scholarship Fund
Description: The Walker Scholarship Fund is established to provide assistance to law
students in Illinois, Milwaukee, and St. Louis. Your current and incoming law students would qualify.
Scholarships are open to all, but preference is given to sons and daughters of members of Masonic Lodge 1098 in Lombard, Illinois, and to former residents of the Masonic Children's Home in La Grange, Illinois, who come from Masonic families. Relatives of members of other Masonic Lodges in
Illinois and elsewhere will also receive strong consideration.
Students are responsible for completing the on-line application at www.walkerscholarship.org. Student Aid Report or FAFSA documentation is also required.
Deadline: June 30
MICHIGAN
Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Scholarship: Miller Johnson West Michigan Diversity Scholarship - $5000
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Michigan Resident
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Ethnic Minority
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Minimum 3.3 GPA on 4.0 scale
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Accepted to or currently enrolled in an accredited law school located in the United States
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Financial Need
Apply online at http://grcf.egrant.org
Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan
Scholarship: The Judge Philip J. Glennie Scholarship
Description: One scholarship in the amount of $1,000 will be awarded to a law student who attended and graduated from a high school located within the Michigan counties of Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency or Presque Isle. Financial need is not a requirement.
Contact: 111 Water Street
P.O. Box 495
Alpena, MI 49707-0495
877.354.6881
cfnem@alpenal.cc.mi.us
RHODE ISLAND
Scholarship: The Thomas F. Black, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund
Description: The $10,000 scholarship is a one year, non-renewable award for full-time students who are Rhode Island residents entering their first year of law school.
Contact: http://www.ribar.com/foundation/scholarships.asp
The Rhode Island Foundation
Scholarship: The Marilynne Graboys Wool Scholarship
Description: Provides tuition support to Rhode Island resident women with financial need who plan to attend graduate school to attain a law degree at an accredited institution.
Contact: www.rifoundation.org
Deadline: June
