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Please review the Tufts Outside Aid Policy to learn more about how receiving outside scholarships may effect aid that has been offered to you.  It is advantageous to apply for outside scholarship sufficient to replace the loan and work portions of your aid award in order to graduate debt free.

NOTE: BEWARE OF SCAMS THAT OFFER TO FIND FINANCIAL AID FOR YOU FOR A FEE. Legitimate scholarship searches have no fees attached. None will ask for private, identifying information. Be a wise consumer and learn to avoid scams.

The following are links to free scholarship searches.

Opportunities at Tufts

Undergraduate Education - Various deadlines

Summer Scholars - March deadline

Summer Internships - March deadline

 

Our office occasionally receives scholarship offers from private organizations and donors. As this information is received, it is posted below.  You may go directly to the linked websites provided, or to the office of Student Financial Services, if noted, to get the relevant application. Please note that this page is updated only as information is received.
 

>>  Talbot Foundation Scholarship  application. For a woman from the US or Canada, with a high GPA, who demonstrates courage, conviction and an insatiable entrepreneurial spirit.  DEADLINE:  January 2, 2010.  *** Only the first 5,000 eligible applications received will be processed.

>>  MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation offers two scholarship programs for students from the MA metro west area who are pursuing nursing, medical, clinical, and oral health professions.  No deadline.  Apply here.

>>  The Gilman International Scholarship Program for Pell recipients who will study abroad in the Spring.  DEADLINE:  October 6. 

>>  Hundreds of scholarships for CA residents:  http://www.house.gov/roybal-allard/2008_Resource_Guide.pdf
DEADLINE:  various, many March 1

>> This scholarship, in honor of a promising young man who died at age 22, is for a young man who has lost his mother, and either has lost his father, or does not have a father available to him.  Follow the link to apply.  Questions can be sent to mrothman@iris-samuelrothmanscholarship.org  Early applications given preference, beginning   06/09/09.
 

Federal and State Links

Get Involved: Contact the Policymakers who make financial aid policy

             U.S. Senate

             U.S. House of Representatives

             State of Massachusetts:

If any of the above names or numbers are inaccurate please call the Capital switchboard directly at (202) 224-3121 to be connected to your Senator or Representative

  Financial Services - Financial Aid, Dowling Hall 7th Floor, Tufts University, Medford, MA,  02155  |  Tel: (617) 627-2000  |  Email