Center for Student Opportunity’s exciting new program, Opportunity Scholars assists highly motivated and qualified first-generation, low-income and minority college-bound students through the college process to identify and enroll in four-year, student-centered colleges and universities that seek to serve them.

A free service for students, Opportunity Scholar benefits include:

• Connections with colleges active in the recruitment of first-generation, low-income, and minority students through CSO College Center
  
  
• Monthly Opportunity Scholars e-newsletters
  
  
• College admissions support
  
  
• Eligibility for CSO Opportunity Scholarships

  Are you an Opportunity Scholar?

Opportunity Scholars are exemplary 9th-12th grade students generally characterized by the following:

• First-generation college-bound [students whose parents did not go to or graduate from college]; and/or

• Limited financial resources [students who seek financial aid and scholarship support for college]; and/or

• Underrepresented/minority groups [students who identify as African-American/Black, American Indian/Alaska native, Hispanic/Latino/a, Asian/Indian Subcontinent/Pacific Islander, and/or rural]

• Students taking a college preparatory curriculum at their high school

• Students demonstrate high engagement in extracurricular and leadership programs

To become an Opportunity Scholar create a profile at ConnectNow.

Apply here or by emailing info@CSOpportunity.org to request an application. First scholarships will be awarded to students entering the college class of 2013.
Deadline June 1, 2009.

To nominate your student to become an Opportunity Scholar, please complete the Opportunity Scholars Nomination Form.

Opportunity Scholars are not defined by minimum academic qualifications, as CSO college partners reflect a spectrum of selectivity to accommodate a diverse pool of student achievement and needs. A complete list of CSO partner colleges can be viewed here.