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Undergraduate Scholarships & Tuition Awards
We encourage all students to consider applying for scholarships and tuition awards as a way to assist with educational expenses.
2018–19 Awards for New & Currently Enrolled Students
- Application Deadline for Scholarships and Tuition Awards: February 1, 2018
- Priority Admissions deadline: February 1, 2018
- Priority Financial Aid application (FAFSA or WASFA) deadline: February 1, 2018
Download a full listing of scholarships (PDF) for best printing, or review the full text of all scholarships as a single webpage.
| Title | New or Current Student | Class Standing | Need-Based | Other Criteria |
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| 1st Sergeant (1SG) Samuel E. Avera Scholarship Amount: $1,528 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Veteran with a service-connected disability. One or more Required:
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| Alumni & Friends Scholarship Amount: $500; 2 awarded | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Community service. |
| AmeriCorps Service Award Amount: $1,800; 5 awarded Tuition Award, restrictions apply.* | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Completed one year of service with AmeriCorps. |
| Ann Gavell Scholarship Amount: $2,052; 2 awarded | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Economics or Political Economy. One or more Required:
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| Art & Magda Costantino Scholarship Amount: $1,532 | Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Social sciences or education. One or more Required:
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| Barbara McCann Art Scholarship Amount: $1,657 | Current | JR, SR | Not need-based | Demonstrates artistic merit. |
| Bennett Scholarship Amount: $1,736; 1 for a new student, 1 for a currently enrolled student | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Science or Technology. |
| Bonnie Phillips Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Environmental Studies . Preferred criteria: Forest protection and global warming. |
| Byron Youtz Memorial Scholarship Amount: $2,650 | Current | JR, SR | Not need-based | Cross-discipline interests: arts, computer studies, humanities, math, sciences. |
| Carleton Morris Cooley Scholarship Amount: $500 | Current | SR | Not need-based | Demonstrates excellence in writing in the English language. Preference will be given to students who participate in college governance. |
| Charles and Barbara McCann Scholarship Amount: $7,935 | Current | SR | Preferred | Ability to carry out a plan of study. |
| Charles and Miriam Matthews Scholarship Amount: $2,922 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | First-generation. |
| Chastain/Barnett Scholarship Amount: $4,938 | New, Current | JR, SR | Required | Computer science, digital media, and technology in any discipline. |
| Colin Reese Memorial Scholarship Amount: $3,585 | Current | JR, SR | Preferred | Political science, economics and/or political economy. |
| Common Application Scholarships Amount: Varying amounts; 16 scholarships some with multiple awards | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Academic achievement. One or more Required:
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| Cultural Diversity Award Amount: Varying amounts up to the value of resident tuition for 18 credits Tuition Award, restrictions apply.* | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Commitment to diversity. |
| Dan & Sheryl Tishman Scholarship Amount: $2,000; Multiple Awards (renewable) | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Sustainability or nature conservation and business. One or more Required:
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| David L. Hitchens Scholarship in Honor of Frances Marie Rasmussen Amount: $3,402 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Arts, humanities, social sciences. Preference given to female applicants. First-generation required. |
| David Matthew Jeter Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Environmental sciences. |
| David Whitener Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | First generation. |
| Dennis E. Jones Memorial Scholarship Amount: $2,046 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Washington state employee or interested in working in Washington state government. Information management or computer science. |
| Don Finkel Memorial Scholarship Amount: $5,870 | Current | SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Humanities. |
| DREAMership Scholarship Amount: $5,700; 2 awards | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Undocumented Immigrant or a United States resident whose first language is not English. |
| Eckerman Family Scholarship for Women in Science and Technology Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Science or Technology. Self-identifies as a woman. |
| Ed Kelly Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,756 | New, Current | JR, SR | Preferred | Social Justice. |
| Edith K. Draham Scholarship Amount: $1,086 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Demonstrated ability in fiction writing. |
| Edmond William Lapine II Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Academic achievement, professional promise. |
| Elizabeth Ker Gordon Memorial Scholarship Amount: $701 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Hydrology or stream management. |
| Evergreen Trustees’ Scholarship Amount: $1,471 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Demonstrated leadership. One or more Required:
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| Forest Ecology Scholarship in honor of Mrs. Suzanne Houts Stilson Amount: $1,971 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Forest ecology. |
| Foundation, First Peoples’, and Sevcik Scholarships Amount: Varying amounts; multiple awards, renewable | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Potential to distinguish themselves after graduation. |
| Fred Goldberg Scholarship Amount: $2,266 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Arts. One or more Required:
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| Fred Tabbutt Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Chemistry and the environment. |
| Gail & Rudy Martin Scholarship Amount: $1,843 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Demonstrates motivation, initiative, persistence and resourcefulness in pursuing educational and life goals. |
| George Washington Hayduke III Scholarship for Environmental Education Amount: $3,368 | Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Environmental protection, enhancement or mitigation. |
| Girvin Family Scholarship Amount: $1,490 | New, Current | Preferred | Creative communications, and graphic design, visual art or creative writing One or more Required:
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| Grant Nathanson Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,200 | Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Writing and/or journalism. |
| Haefeli Family Scholarship Amount: $2,242 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Interest in making a difference in the lives of others. One or more Required:
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| Heck Family Scholarship Amount: $3,179 | New | FR | Required | Thurston County high school graduate who is the first in their family to attend college. |
| Isabelle Lamb Leg Up Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Single Mother. |
| Jacinta McKoy Community Based Learning and Action Scholarship Amount: $1,428 | Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Community-based service and social change. One or more Required:
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| Jackie Robinson Memorial Scholarship Amount: $2,959; 3 awarded | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Academic achievement, community service, social justice, students of color. Preference given to students transferring from Seattle Central Community College. |
| Jason Andrew Oak Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,593 | Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Performing arts. One or more Required:
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| Jeanne Hahn Scholarship Amount: $3,664 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Political economy or history. One or more Required:
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| Jess and Hanna Spielholz Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | JR, SR | Not need-based | Health Education. | |
| John & Andrea Adams Scholarship Amount: $1,417 | Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Interest in working in the environmental field. Preference will be given to a single parent. |
| Joseph Albert Dear Memorial Scholarship Amount: $2,052; multiple awards | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Public policy/career in public service. One or more Required:
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| JUNO Scholarship Amount: $5,045; 2 awarded | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Painting, drawing or mixed media based on drawing or painting. One or more Required:
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| Lamb Leg Up II Scholarship Amount: $2,091 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Preference will be given to students from Grays Harbor. One or more Required:
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| Lamb Leg Up Scholarship Amount: $1,733 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Preference will be given to students from Grays Harbor. |
| Laura White Math Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | JR, SR | Required | Science, technology, engineering or math. |
| Learning Seed Foundation Scholarship Amount: $3,020 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Community service. Preference will be given to students of color and students who are the first in their family to attend college. One or more Required:
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| Lee Hoemann Scholarship Amount: $1,654 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Environmental Science or Environmental Policy. One or more Required:
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| Life on Earth Scholarship Amount: $1,470 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Incorporate the outdoors into their academic work. |
| Litchman Family Scholarship Amount: $2,827; 2 awarded | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Healthcare. One or more Required:
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| Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin Endowed Scholarship Amount: $3,637; 4 awarded | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Technology. One or more Required:
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| Margery B. Brown Memorial Media Fund Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Media production. |
| Mark Blakley Memorial Award Amount: $1,590 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Fine arts: writing, painting, sculpture, photography, etc. |
| Mark Stephen Souder Scholarship for Information Dissemination Amount: $3,068 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Interest in information dissemination. Preference given to non-Caucasian, non-resident, and/or non-heterosexual students |
| Mary Ann Steele Scholarship Amount: $2,044 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer). One or more Required:
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| Mathew Slobodkin Memorial Award Amount: $2,600 | Current | SO | Not need-based | GED or other high school equivalency. Contributes to political, artistic, or cultural life of Evergreen or Olympia. |
| McConkey Trustee’s Scholarship Amount: $4,591; 2 awarded | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Academic Achievement. Professional Promise. |
| Merit Award Amount: Equal to undergraduate resident tuition up to 18 credits; 5 awarded; nonrenewable Tuition Award, restrictions apply.* | New | FR | Not need-based | National Merit Semi-Finalist Scholar. |
| Merv Cadwallader Scholarship Amount: $2,025 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Commitment to the betterment of society through good citizenship and community involvement. One or more Required:
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| Microsoft Alumni Scholarship Amount: $2,027; 2 awarded | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Applied technology/computing - any discipline. |
| Mike Beug Scholarship Amount: $2,375 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Passion for mycology. |
| Miriam & Gerald Erlick Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,518 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Orphaned or raised in foster homes or in another alternative living arrangement without parenting by biological parent(s). One or more Required:
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| Mueller Family Scholarship Amount: $2,728 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Environmental Studies. One or more Required:
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| Nicandri Athletic Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | NAIA registered intercollegiate athlete. |
| Niels Skov Scholarship Amount: $2,892 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Entrepreneurship. One or more Required:
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| Nonsequitur Scholarship Amount: $3,884 | Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Scholastic or personal achievement. |
| One Hardt Scholarship Amount: $2,489 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Entrepreneurial spirit, community service. |
| Persistence Scholarship Amount: $1000; renewable up to 4 years | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Science or Business. Community service. |
| Pete Sinclair Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | JR, SR | Required | English literature. Preference given to students interested in creative writing, the classics and/or poetry. |
| Phoenix Rising Scholarship Amount: $1,000 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Female survivor of domestic abuse or sexual assault. |
| Political Ecology 1971–1972 Program Scholarship Amount: $1,853 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Environmental studies |
| Rachel Corrie Memorial Scholarship Amount: $3,000; nonrenewable | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Human rights, social change. |
| Rainwater/Ross Endowment Fund Amount: $2,917 | New | FR | Preferred | Community service. |
| Roberto Clemente Memorial Scholarship Amount: $1,581 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Public service, academic achievement. Preference to first-generation Latin American or Puerto Rican. |
| Sawston Wealth Management Scholarship Amount: $1,187 | New, Current | JR, SR | Required | Finance, business or non-profit management. |
| Shauna May Memorial Scholarship Amount: $3,332 | New, Current | JR, SR | Not need-based | Literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology or religion. |
| Skipping Stone Foundation Scholarship Amount: $1,501 | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Visual and preforming arts. |
| Soroptimist International of Olympia Endowment Scholarship Amount: $1,065 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Female. Community service. |
| Steven Gibson Memorial Scholarship Amount: $2,393 | Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Required | Community service. |
| Storytelling Scholarship Amount: $1,344 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Storytelling (creative or academic writing, media, music, visual arts or performance). One or more Required:
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| Thayer Raymond Memorial Scholarship Amount: $5,717; 2 awarded | New, Current | JR, SR | Required | Community service. |
| Tom Rainey History and Literature Scholarship Amount: $2,128 | Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Humanities, history, literature. One or more Required:
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| TRiO Scholarships Amount: $7,000 (split over 3 years), multiple awards | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Participation in a TRiO program. |
| TRiO Tuition Waivers Amount: varying amounts up to the value of resident tuition 18 credits Tuition Award, restrictions apply.* | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Preferred | Participation in a TRiO program. |
| United Faculty of Evergreen Solidarity Scholarship Amount: $1,000; 8 awarded | Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | Washington resident. Community Service. One or more required: Facing high levels of student loan indebtedness; African American; Latinx; Native American; Asian, Pacific Islander, Pan Asian; DREAMers and DACA; A first generation student, e.g., a student whose parents did not graduate from a 4 year college or university; LGBTQ; Parent |
| Upward Bound Still We Rise Amount: $1,000; multiple awards | New, Current | FR, SO, JR, SR | Not need-based | Upward Bound Alumni who graduated from Lincoln, Mt. Tahoma, Foss or Clover Park high schools. |
| Washington High School Merit Award Amount: Multiple awards, $7,000 (split over 2 years) Tuition Award, restrictions apply.* | New | FR | Not need-based | Graduating from Washington High School/Home School/GED. |
| Wayne Garrett Kostin Scholarship Amount: $1,331 | New, Current | SO, JR, SR | Required | LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer). One or more Required:
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