Texas Mayflower Scholarship Amounts 2025

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First Place:  $6,000

Second Place:  $4,000

Third Place: $2,000

Meeting the Challenge Scholarship - $1000

An optional scholarship to be awarded to students who overcame hardships like a death in the family or a physical disability as explained in the essay, to enroll in higher learning including two-year or four-year college, vocational, business, or technical schools. 

 

Criteria For Texas Mayflower Scholarships 2024-25

To be eligible to apply for a Mayflower scholarship, the following criteria must be met:

All Mayflower scholarships shall be awarded for use in an academic degree-granting program in a college or university accredited by a nationally or regionally recognized accrediting agency and for comparable academic institutions outside the United States.

To be considered for a Texas Mayflower scholarship, all applicants must submit the following documents:

• Transcripts from the applicant’s current or most recently attended high school.  Transcripts that have been downloaded or printed and scanned directly from the applicant’s high school, (screenshots are acceptable).  Attendance at a Texas High school is mandatory.

• Application form.  You must have a Texas member number (parent or grandparent) at the time of the application to be considered.

• One page resume.  Tell us how you are special and deserve this opportunity

• Character reference form (may have an optional letter as well) written by someone that is not in your family

• Academic form and reference letter written by someone that is not a family member like a teacher, principal, or guidance counsellor. 

• Short Essay

• Essay topic is:
  Write a letter to your ancestor telling him or her what you admired about them, and what virtues they had that you incorporated into your life.  He or she also overcame some challenges.  What  challenge are you most proud of conquering?
  (1,000 – 1200 words)

 

Good luck to all graduating seniors.  Awards will be presented on March 29th, 2025 in San Antonio at the Texas Mayflower Convention.

 

Application Guidelines for Academic Scholarships

The deadline for receipt of applications with all supporting materials for each scholarship is March 1st.  The packet must be at the address below on or before March 1st to be considered and all documents must be in the packet.  The address is:

 

Cathy Bambenek

Texas Scholarship Chairman

2505 Heather Hill Lane

Plano, Texas 75075

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Only complete applications with all required supporting materials that are received by March 1st will be considered by the Scholarship Application Evaluation Committee.

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Here is your checklist:

_____Transcript

_____Essay

_____Resume

_____Application with member number

_____Character Reference Form and optional letter

_____Academic Reference Form/mandatory letter of recommendation

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We wish you the best of luck!

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If applying for a colony scholarship, please click on the appropriate link….like DFW, Houston, etc.