Scholarships for
Disadvantage Students
Website: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/dsa/
The Scholarships for Disadvantaged
Students program provides scholarships to full-time, financially needy students
from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in health professions and nursing
programs.
Participating schools are responsible for
selecting scholarship recipients, making reasonable determinations of need, and
providing scholarships that do not exceed the cost of attendance (tuition,
reasonable educational expenses and reasonable living expenses).
You are eligible to apply for this
scholarship at a school that participates in the Scholarships for Disadvantaged
Students program if you are:
From a disadvantaged background as defined by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services:
An individual from a disadvantaged
background is defined as one who comes from an environment that has inhibited
the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skill, and abilities required to
enroll in and graduate from a health professions school, or from a program
providing education or training in an allied health profession; or comes from a
family with an annual income below a level based on low income thresholds
according to family size published by the U.S. Bureau of Census, adjusted
annually for changes in the Consumer Price Index, and adjusted by the
Secretary, HHS, for use in health professions and nursing programs.
A citizen, national, or a lawful
permanent resident of the United States or the District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto
Rico or the Marianas Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the American Samoa, the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of
the Marshall Islands and the Federated State of Micronesia.