BASIC INFO Profile Bar
- Should be mostly completed when you register your account.
ADDITIONAL Info Profile Bar
- Complete other demographic information.
SCHOOLS Profile Bar
- College information is not required, but may affect scholarship eligibility – answer what you know to the best of your ability.
GPA Profile Bar
- SLPHS calculates GPA on a 4.0 scale and is not weighted
- Only the cumulative HS GPA is required. Cumulative GPA can be found on Naviance
CLASS RANK Profile Bar
- Does your school rank students? – No. No need to put anything here.
TEST SCORES Profile Bar
- Test scores are not used to determine St. Louis Park scholarship awards. Do not need to fill out this area.
ACTIVITIES Profile Bar
- Fill out all sports, clubs, community service, arts, music and church activities you wish to have considered.
AWARDS Profile Bar
- These are outside scholarship awards (financial or other).
EMPLOYMENT Profile Bar
DOCUMENTS Profile Bar
- Feel free to upload a resume for example, not required.
PARENT/GUARDIAN INFO Profile Bar
- Enter parent/guardian contact information – please include a valid email.
FINANCIAL INFO Profile Bar
- Financial information is not required.
GOALS ESSAY and UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES ESSAY Profile Bars
- An essay on Goals and Aspirations is required for all applications. An essay about any Unusual Circumstances is optional, but may be used to tell the awards committee other things that you might want considered. Minimum of 250 words.
TRANSCRIPTS Profile Bar
No Transcript required.
REFERENCES Profile Bar
All students must have a reference by a person of their choosing. All reference requests will come from Scholarship America via email, you should notify the person that you are getting your reference from that the request has been made. Please make your request for a recommendation as soon as you can to make sure it can get done before the deadline.
MY SCHOLARSHIPS area
Students are required to write an answer to the following question:
- What personal strength(s) have you gained from your experiences from either St. Louis Park High School or the St. Louis Park community-at-large? What would a scholarship mean to you? This question can be found under the Scholarship Chapter Additional Information box (click on Questions). You will not be able to apply for any scholarships until this essay is complete and you have clicked on “submit”
- Click “Verify Eligibility for all Scholarships”
- Answer all eligibility questions; submit answers to the custom questions.
- Click “View” to see detail of scholarships
- Click “Apply” to complete application submission for any scholarship you wish to be considered for. There are many scholarships that all students are eligible for. You can apply for all at once at the top.
- Some scholarships require additional essays and/or references and must be completed before scholarship can be submitted. When you click apply, it takes a minute to process – be patient.
