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Applications for the 2024-2025 Future Lives Here Scholarship Are Now Open!

Campus Advantage and Catalyst Marketing are pleased to announce the return of the Future Lives Here Scholarship for its third year! This scholarship reflects our shared commitment to creating vibrant student communities and helping you succeed academically, professionally, and socially. We believe in providing exceptional living experiences and helpful resources to help you achieve your goals — including the chance to win $5,000 toward the 2025—2026 school year!

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Scholarship Details

  • Application Questions

    On the following application, you'll be asked to answer three of the following prompts. Your answers can be provided in written format (250 words or less), audio format (2 minutes or less), or video format (2 minutes or less).

    • How has your experience at a Campus Advantage community helped you flourish socially?
    • How has your experience at a Campus Advantage community helped you grow professionally?
    • How has your experience at a Campus Advantage community helped you succeed academically?
    • What's one goal you have for the upcoming year, and how can your student housing community help you accomplish this?
    • What does the idea of “home” mean to you? How has (or might) that change while living in a student housing community?
    • What does “the future lives here” mean to you, and how has living at a Campus Advantage community prepared you for that future?

  • Submission Time Frame

    Applications for the 2024-2025 scholarship open on November 4, 2024 at 9 a.m. and close on March 1, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Following the submission and committee judging process, one final recipient will be selected and notified by April 15, 2025.

  • Applicant Criteria

    The Future Lives Here Scholarship is open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in a two-year college, a community college, or a four-year college or university, or those who graduated in 2023 or 2024.

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What to Expect

This is a simple, one-step application. On the application, you'll be asked to answer three of six prompts, and submit your answers in written, audio, or video format. All formats will be considered equally, so choose the approach that best represents you. Submissions will be judged according to creativity and originality of answer, appropriateness to the topic, clarity, and adherence to the guidelines. One recipient will be selected and announced as the winner of the $5,000 scholarship, to be distributed upon completion of necessary paperwork.

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