LaGrange County’s 2025 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship application opens on July 26, 2024.
The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program (LECSP) will provide 147 scholarships statewide and one scholarship in LaGrange County. The program, administered statewide by Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI), is offered locally in LaGrange County through the LaGrange County Community Foundation.
The scholarship provides one full-tuition award and a $900 annual stipend for required books for four years of full-time undergraduate study leading to a bachelor’s degree at any eligible Indiana Indiana public or private nonprofit college or university.
To be eligible to apply for the LaGrange County award, students must:
- Graduate from a LaGrange County high school by 2025 and receive their diploma no later than June 30, 2025;
- Intend to pursue a full-time baccalaureate course of study at an eligible college or university in Indiana;
- Be a resident of LaGrange County; and
- Have a minimum grade point average of 3.75.
Applications must be completed and submitted by September 12, 2024, at 4 p.m. to be considered.
Applications will be evaluated on the following criteria: academic achievement, demonstrated service to others, leadership ability, motivation to succeed, employment history, extracurricular involvement, and essay responses. Two recommendations must be submitted with the application: one from a teacher and one from a community member. A personal interview will assist in determining the scholarship recipient.
Five students will be selected as finalists and be invited to the interview round in October 2024. Following the interviews, the LaGrange County Community Foundation will nominate one local graduating senior for the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship; their name will be submitted to ICI for final approval. The scholarship recipient will be announced in December.
The finalists not selected for the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship will receive the Lambright Leadership Scholarship, a $1,000 four-year renewable scholarship.
Students can learn more about the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship in LaGrange County and apply for the scholarship by visiting LCCF.net/LillyScholarship.
