Scholarship from Alaska Advantage Apprenticeship Grant

The Alaska assembly created the AlaskAdvantage Apprenticeship Admission Affairs to accommodate need-based banking abetment to acceptable Alaska acceptance accessory condoning postsecondary educational institutions in Alaska. The affairs was accurately advised to set abreast a allocation of accessible admission funds as antecedence awards for applicants demonstrating aberrant bookish alertness for college apprenticeship (as accurate by top quartile SAT or ACT scores), and for contrarily acceptable applicants enrolled in condoning workforce curtailment programs: 

• affiliated bloom science
• association and amusing service
• teaching and paraprofessional education
• action industry/natural assets abstraction industry 

The AlaskAdvantage Apprenticeship Admission is adjourned accordingly by the Alaska Apprentice Loan Corporation and the state's General Fund, and provides the accompaniment bout dollars appropriate for accord in the federal LEAP (Leverage Educational Abetment Partnership) program. Admission awards ambit from a minimum of $500 to a best of $3,000 per bookish year for acceptance who accept condoning unmet banking need. 

Qualifying applicants will be prioritized based on banking need. Acceptance with the accomplished banking charge will be awarded in adjustment of charge until funds are exhausted. All applicants accept to complete a new Free Appliance for Federal Apprentice Aid (FAFSA) anniversary year.

Accommodation

To authorize for an AlaskAdvantage Apprenticeship Admission a apprentice must: 

• be an Alaska aborigine and U.S. aborigine or abiding resident
• accept a top academy authority or GED
• be accepted into an undergraduate amount or abstruse affidavit affairs at a condoning Alaska institution
• be enrolled at minimum half-time
• accept unmet banking charge of $500 or more
• not accept becoming a baccalaureate degree
• accommodated satisfactory bookish advance standards
• be acceptable for federal Title IV aid 

How to Administer

Receiving a admission in one year does not agreement a apprentice will accept an accolade in consecutive years. To be advised acceptable for an award, the apprentice accept to complete the FAFSA amid January 1 and June 30 anniversary year, selecting at atomic one condoning Alaska academy of college education. FAFSAs submitted afterwards June 30 will not be considered. Acceptance may administer online at the FAFSA web site.

Students may admission their alone appliance and accommodation advice via the Alaska Apprentice Aid Portal . The academy will verify if the apprentice meets the acceptance requirements for this affairs at the alpha of anniversary bookish year. Additional advice may be acquired by contacting the school’s Banking Aid Office. 

Website:

Official Scholarship Website: http://akadvantage.alaska.gov/Grants_and_Scholarships/My_Grant_Scholarship_Account.aspx

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