Scholarship Applications Now Available

February 15, 2012

Applications for the 2012 City of Oceanside – Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Program are now available at local high schools and at the Oceanside Public Library.  Any graduating senior who lives in Oceanside and will attend college after graduation is eligible to apply, regardless what high school the student attends.  The scholarship program has no racial, ethnic, gender or other arbitrary criteria; residency in Oceanside is the only requirement for application.   

Students may contact the scholarship coordinator at their high school for information about the program and application forms.  The deadline for submission of applications this year is April 18.  

The scholarship program awarded $27,000 to fourteen students from five different high schools in 2011 and has awarded over $500,000 since the first scholarships were awarded in 1993.  All funds for the program come from community donations; no public monies are used for the scholarships.  The 2012 recipients will be introduced to donors at the annual Scholarship Garden Reception on June 1, 2012.  This is the only fundraising event for the program.  Call 760.435.3393 for more information about the scholarship program.

( News Release )