Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship Deadline Approaching

A reminder that July 1st is the deadline to apply for the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship. This scholarship provides tuition assistance to tradition and non-traditional students attending universities and two-year colleges both public and private in the state of Arkansas. Freshman students at 4 year colleges receive $1,000. 2nd & 3rd year students receive $4,000. & Senior level students are awarded $5,000 per year. 2-year college 1st year students receive $1,000 while 2nd year receive $3,000. To maintain eligability students are required to keep a 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Funding is also available for high school students who wish to start early on receiving credit for college courses through the Arkansas concurrent Academic Challenge Scholarship. Since its inception in 2009, the Arkansas lottery has helped raise more than $1 billion in scholarship proceeds and awarded more than 650,000 academic challenge scholarship to students. Again the upcoming deadline to apply is July 1st.